Chisel Your Stomach With Simple Bicycle Exercises

This abdominal exercise specifically targets two different parts of your core, which are your upper abdominals and your obliques. 

 Your upper abdominals are the most common abdominal muscles to be targeted with more exercise and are the easiest to strengthen and tone. 

 Your oblique abdominals are those muscles on the side of your waist area, or you might better recognize them as the “love handles.” Yes, this exercise will help you accomplish the destruction of those pesky love handles once and for all.

 The reason this is such a common abdominal exercise is because of the fact that this targets two separate abdominal groups at the same time.

 Bicycles are one of the most common abdominals exercise and it is very self-explanatory. Basically you do what the name implies, which is pretend to ride a bike while sitting down.

 First, you want to lie flat on the floor with your lower back pressed to the ground and your higher back off the ground. Put your hands beside your head and bring knees up to about 45- degree angle.

 You’ll know you’re in the right position when you feel a little tugging in your “six pack” area the moment you are in that position.

 Once in the position, start to slowly go through a bicycle pedal motion and picture yourself riding a bicycle. This exercise isn't  too complex because of the fact that you're basically pedaling a bicycle, but at the same time this work out blasts both your obliques and your upper abdominals.

 Touch your left elbow to your right knee, then your right elbow to your left knee and repeat this motion, keeping your higher back off the ground and keeping an even, relaxed breathing throughout the work out.

 If this exercise doesn’t seem to be pushing you to your limit then I have a variation for you to try out. It is pretty easy to do, and the only real difference is that you perform bicycles backwards. 

 Yes I said backwards. This can be pretty tough because the movement and timing can be pretty awkward at first, but once you get the concept down you’ll really tone your abdominals much faster.