Abdominal Exercise WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Abdominal Exercise
Abdominal exercises are those that affect the abdominal muscles (colloquially known as the stomach muscles). The anterior abdominal wall is made up of 4 muscles-- the rectus abdominus muscle, the internal and external obliques, and the transversus abdominus. The effectiveness of abdominal exercise is measured using electromyography relative to the traditional crunch. ...read more from Wikipedia
Fast Facts:
- Exercise is best for toning up abdominal muscles .1
- Sit-up is ineffective abdominal exercise.2
- Top 3 ab exercise are: bicycle crunch, captain's chair, and crunch on an exercise ball.3
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Research Notes References
- ↑ DoctorNDTV: Abdominal Exercises
- ↑ HealthAtoZ: The Best And Worst Abdominal Exercises
- ↑ About.com: The Best And The Worst Ab Exercises
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- Contributor: Madeleine Paladar
- Reviewer: Elisa Carter
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- Last update: Oct. 14, 2009
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- Contributor: Madeleine Paladar
- Reviewer: Elisa Carter
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Abdominal Excercise, Abdominal Exercises, Abdominal Excercises
- Last update: Jul. 25, 2008
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.