Keeping your lower abs in shape is important to keeping your spine in shape and they’re important in keeping yourself lower back injury free. Not only do lower abs exercises keep your body healthy, a great set of lower abs just looks good. You can get great looking lower abs without too much difficulty if you focus on doing the right kinds of lower abs exercises.

First off, quality is more important than quantity in lower abs exercises. This means that you need to focus on doing the exercises the right way rather than doing a lot of them the wrong way. In fact, it could even exasperate injuries if you aren’t exercising the right way.

There are two main muscles in your lower abdomen. The Rectus Abdominus and the Transverse Abdominus are the muscles responsible for moving the lower abdomen area just above the pelvis. In order to be effective, lower abs exercises need to work these muscles to be effective.

An exercise to work the Transverse Abdominus muscle is to lay flat on the floor, facing the floor. In this lower abs exercise, you’ll attempt to pull your belly button towards your spine. You can only use your lower abs muscles to do this. As you pull in, you need to hold the contraction for 10 to 15 seconds and then release it. Slowly increase the time to at least a minute.

Other lower abs exercises include the flatten to the floor exercise. Lay on your back with your legs in an A shape. Using only your abdomen muscles, attempt to push your back as close to the floor as possible. When you have gone as far as you can, you need to hold the position for at least 10 seconds. You’ll slowly increase it until you can do it for at least a minute.