When you’re disturbed of the excess paunch, why can’t you let in the challenge of feeling the pain of core training of abdominal muscle? The path which you have selected to carry on your agenda must be the safest and the easiest.

Shifting your feet over the ground and keeping your hips at right angle is one style of doing crunches. Crunches done in this way is the most risk-free one.

The work to contraction ratio is the chief factor in interpreting the safety while doing an exercise. According to this ratio, the exercise for rectus abdominus, which concentrates heavily over the abdominal muscles and the least over the lower back is believed the best.

So out of most other workouts, this exercise with your legs up and hips bent at 90 degrees scored the highest on the work contraction indices. In this exercise, most of the pressure is on the abdominal muscles and less on the lower back.

Hanging double straight leg raises is the exercise which works tough on the abdominal muscles as per the study. In this you must hang from a bar and lift both your feet in front of you.

This would appear to be the best exercise for working the stomach because it works the abs harder than crunches, but the disadvantage of this exercise is that it also puts the most force on the lower back.

Do you realize the reason for so much force on your back?

The thing you must know about the ab exercises is that when you move your legs, you tend to challenge your lower back. You can manage this problem, when you make yourself flexible and strong. So that you are efficient of controlling your pelvis, lower back and legs.

In fact being able to control your pelvis and legs is essential for anyone who is looking to improve their core strength and function and is even more important for anyone involved in athletics, recreationally or competitively.

The hip flexor is the muscle which helps you in bending your hips and moving your thighs closer to your chest and this muscle is connected to the spine. Therefore, when the muscle is at work and is tight, you tend to pull the spine. This is normal, but if your ab muscles are really weak or you are really inflexible you will have added force on your back.

When the back arches overly more force is placed on the joints of the back. Lifting the feet off the land and bringing the hips to 90 degrees decreases the arch in the back and takes off some pressure. Every exercise has benefits and risks, pros and cons. But depending on your body condition and references from a doctor, you have to decide, what is best for your body.