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Sit ups and leg lifts are excellent muscle building exercises that will test and try your abdominal muscles. Sit-ups and leg lifts should be included in any exercise routine that intends on building abdominal muscles. These exercises help your body burn more fat while building more muscle in your abdominal region.

To begin a sit-up lie down on the floor and keep your feet flat on the floor. Raise your knees up and put your hands behind your head or placed across your chest. Then with your abdominal muscles only, sit up all the way. Lift your lower back from the floor completely with your shoulder blades. Then repeat this exercise over again. The easier this becomes for you, you can start to add more resistance. You can do sit-ups on an incline bench for more resistance or while holding an exercise ball. If you decide to place your hands behind your head, touch your right elbow to your left knee, and your left elbow to your right knee, alternating. As each weight becomes easier and easier, start to add heavier and heavier weights for more resistance.

Leg lifts are another important aspect to working out the abdominal muscles. To do these, just lie on the floor flat, with your legs straight out. Lift your legs straight up in the air. Do not bend your knees at all, and make your legs as close to a right angle with your body as possible. Then lower your legs and repeat this movement. Do not allow your legs to touch the floor. This is a difficult exercise that shows results very quickly. There is some equipment at various gyms that allow you to raise yourself with your arms as support and dangle your legs. This equipment makes the movement easier as all you have to do is raise your knees up to your chest. Raising your legs to a horizontal position with them straight is very difficult and this equipment helps with that motion. You can try doing leg lifts with a medicine ball on your legs, which is even more difficult.

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