What are good exercises to tone your abs?
I am just trying to tone my abs. When I look on the web I get all these excerises which require stuff in a gym. I just want some exercises that I can do in my basement and try to tone my abs, especially the lower abs. A workout regiment would be helpful.

jogging is an excellent exercise because it let you lose weight
evenly throughout your whole body. If you want to lose weight in
specific areas, you should target them with exercises. If they are
your problem areas, they will be very difficult to tone. You will have
to work double on them. The best approach is this:
1. Lower/control your daily calorie intake (control for normal
weight, lower for overweight).
2. Run/jog to lower your overall body fat percentage.
3. Target your problem areas with exercises.
an excellent exercise, you can do it in front of your TV: sit on a
stool, and put your toes under something (piece of heavy furniture,
for example). In your hands hold a little dumbbell. Please, make sure
that it is not very heavy, start with one kilo, for example, or you
will damage your back and spine! Slowly move the upper part of your
body back, until it’s parallel with the ground. Stop for a second and
move it back to the sitting position. Repeat ten times. Every week add
to the number of repetitions. You will see the results in a week,
guaranteed! You will see or feel under the fat – if you have any – six
pack and muscles. Dumbbells do wonders. Much better than these
crunches – I came up to three hundreds and there was no results AT
ALL. With the dumbbells you will see it in a week.
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I do ab exercises every single day and within a week or so I saw results! Plus, working your abs makes any other physical activity you do easier! The key is to work all parts of the abdominal muscles. These are effective and don’t even take that much effort!:
1. Put one hand behind your head and the other by your side. Spread your legs about shoulder-width apart, and lean down to that side. Do ten of this. Then switch to the other side, doing ten. Repeat this 2 more times.
2. Get an ottoman or something of the sort. Lay on the floor with your butt scootched up right in front of it, and lift your legs and put them on top of the ottoman so that your knees are at a ninety degree angle. Put your arms behind your head WITH YOUR ELBOWS OUT TO THE SIDE and do a crunch; repeat this 9 more times for a total of 10. Do three sets of this.
3. Lay down the floor and lift up your legs with your knees bent. Lift up your head so that your abs tighten and are being worked; count to 30. Repeat this 2 more times for a total of three.
4. Lay down on the floor with both your hands under your tailbone. Cross your ankles with your knees bent and lift your knees up towards you, then back down so that your toes touch the floor before lifting back up. Do this a total of 90 times, resting between each third.
Like I said, doing this every day creates results. Don’t skip out! Once you feel and look like your abdominals are getting stronger, increase the numbers a little bit so that you continue to strengthen your core and abs. Hope this helps!!
My boyfriend and his friends use the most recommended abs program which includes both abs exercises, fullbody exercises and supporting eating plan so it really works. It is very useful and helpful. You should take a look at it and more abs articles from http://www.diettipsandfitness.com Good luck:)
There are animated pictures that show you how to do all these exercises(there are a ton)
The link is below
Well, if you already have a flat stomach just do crunches, and hanging leg raises. If you don’t already have a flat stomach you need to do lots of cardio to work the belly fat off then work on crunches, sit ups, leg raises to hit the bottom abs. Remember if you don’t already have a flat stomach then crunches, etc. can be counter productive since they add definition to an already flat stomach. So work on your cardio first, then abs.