How to do a successful stomach crunch?

Question

If you feel the burn in ur abdominal area, does it mean you are doing it correctly?

Answer 1

yes you should feel them working, as you lift your chest with your chin tucked in, try to push you stomach down towards your spine, so that it flattens instead of making a pouch, it doesnt matter how high you go so long as you isolate the muscles and your back should never arch always keep it flat on the floor.
hope this helps.

Answer 2

usually yes but be careful of damaging your back.

Variety of exercise is the key I have found. For example..an exercise called Mountain Climbers.

Mountain climbers are done by starting in a pushup position
and then shuffling your feet in and out so that your knees are
moving in under your chest and then back out to starting
position. It sort of resembles climbing a mountain but flat on
the floor. If you want an advanced version, you can also shuffle your hands 8-10 inches forward and backward in
addition to the leg movements. This really makes it a full
body exercise and MUCH more difficult than standard mountain climbers.

After finishing each exercise, rest about 30 seconds before
starting the next exercise. Rest about 1-2 minutes after
completing each "tri-set" before repeating.

This will give you one of the best ab workouts you've ever had
without even doing any direct ab exercises. You'll see what I
mean after you try it!

Once you get away from the myth that a 1000 crunches and 500 situps a day is all you need to do for great abs, then amazing results can be seen.

There is a completely free 65 page ebook about exercise, nutrition, abs and stomaches in particular at http://www.projext.co.uk that you can download (no catch!) and it is excellent.

It helped me greatly.

Answer 3

Yes.
The best way I know how to do stomach crunches and have success at it is.. lying back down on the floor and doing sit ups while pulling up your knees to your opposite of your arms. Like when you pull up have your right elbow meet your left knee, and so on 100 times. Then to 200 times a day. Now I'm doing 300 a day and I have the abs to back that up. The faster you go the more you'll fell the burn, and thats the burn of losing fat. Only took me really 2 months to get results.
But if I stayed on it better it would have been a month easy.

Answer 4

I would say no.It means your muscles are working and in time should get toned.
Please keep in mind that if hand behind head that you are using the stomach muscles and not lifting from neck which can do damage.
Another way , Lie down with legs straight in air , back and head on floor so L postion and lift gently from your lower abs to your feet gently and controlled good for lower abs, will have some pain again muscles being worked and are weak
cheers
rocker

Answer 5

typically yes,
make sure your chin is frimly in your chest the whole time (so you're not just doing head bobs)
lock your hands behind your head
starting from the ground pick up your shoulder blades and force your chest towards the ceiling
two seconds up and two seconds down.
go as high as you can every time

Answer 6

http://www.great-workout.com/stomach-crunch.cfm
yes if it burns its working.