Strengthen my abs

I’ve fallen out of my exercise routine, but while I’m waiting for the motivation to get going again on EA Sports Active, I’ll just work on strengthening this flabby stomach. I want to do crunches when I have the time and energy, and I want to make it a habit to hold in my stomach. I also want to watch Shimmy on fitTV to learn how to belly dance. And do occasional yoga poses that focus on core strength.

I hope to do all or some of these things every or most days, especially since I have lost some weight, and can no longer say that strengthening my abs is futile.

The long term goal is to have defined abs again. Although this will take a long time !

for now the goal is to do sit-ups or pressups or both everyday for 1 month to start with.

And I used to do 1000 sit-ups every New Year’s Eve!

I notice that I still get pain in my sides when I run, and I think I will have to strengthen my core muscles to fix this… so next fitness goals are to get stronger abs and finally be able to do a pull-up, before increasing speed and distance as a runner.

Subgoals: do ab exercises every day (sit-ups and side crunches)

As a process to strengthen my abdominal muscles, I have found a wheel that I roll out while upon my knees and roll back in again. This process works the upper and lower muscles, arms and back. I also enjoy the “bicycle” movement (elbow to knees, like riding, when on back), and a few others. Now all I have to do is keep going to get rid of the baby belly.

I started doing crunches today mainly to burn off some pent up negative energy. Reminds me of gym class. One of the things I was able to until the end, no matter what. Unfortunately, at the time I was downing hamburgers. Now I eat healthier, so maybe this will do me some good if I keep it up.