What is the best way to exercise my abdominal muscles without increasing my waist size?
I am short-waisted and a serious routine of sit-ups just seems to make my waist widen! Answer: To get the results you are looking for, concentrate on three things: disciplined eating habits, cardiovascular exercise and focused training. What I mean by focused training is paying close attention to detail. This involves creating well-shaped and defined abdominal muscles by fully isolating the muscles with proper body placement and contracting the muscles throughout the full range of motion in a very slow and deliberate fashion. Create quality over quantity by emphasizing how well you perform each exercise over how many. Just picking a number of exercises and doing as many as you can is not focused training. Cut down the number of reps/sets and focus on getting quality reps/sets that will produce top-level definition rather than basic muscle development. There are only so many abdominal exercises, so concentrate on improving your technique and slowing your speed of movement on the exercis
