Pup a number sufficient time for walking standing patient leash your chest and the right foot on the medicine ball. The best ab exercise for transverse abdominal is the vacuum. It can be done by all levels and literally anywhere at anytime. You can do it while sitting up or lying down. It can be done bed, at the office, or while driving your car. All you have to do is exhale as much as you can, suck your belly as far as it go, and hold for 10 to 15 seconds. Make sure you are pulling your abs as if they were meeting your back. You also kill two birds with one stone this workout by exercising your pelvic floor muscles at the same time. Pull your pelvic floor muscles upward at the same time you are pulling your abdominal muscles inward. This is one of the best ab exercises of all time. At first, you only be able to do three repetitions. Build on that by doing them two to three times per day. Increase the repetitions weekly as well as the time for each repetition. Before you know it, you have tight abs and a smaller waist. These exercises strengthen your transverse abdominal muscle and should help slim your waistline. However, there are still two other factors that help you melt body fat off your six-pack abs. Without them, you have strong abs but you not be able to your full potential. Do full-body workouts that include cardio to melt body fat. Thirty minutes of fast-paced walking or doing medium intensity cardio exercises on elliptical, recumbent bike, or stair climber help you shed the unwanted fat. Including diet and cardio with your abdominal training help you get a flat stomach fast. Dis-Allusions the Carolinas Seriously? I just paid how much for a physical therapist to tell me this?? Then ask me the entire visit if it made sense to me, which further infuriated me. Never going back again, they lured me with the cupping then the actual visit was this information you gave me for $0!! SueJ I this information!! I discovered poor t-abs after having pelvic floor issues. I went to the doctor and I was ignored multiple times! libido left and I was constantly constipated. I was just miserable. personality didn't allow me to lay down without a fight and information. I went to google and discovered sites like this one and other physical training websites. EVERYONE was talking about the T-abs and the function of stabilization. I'm on way to recovery and am happy to have found some more exercises I can do to strengthen them once I stretch them. Thanks much! Thank you Been wondering what the problem was. I've been doing crunches, crunches, and more crunches yet keeping that spare tire as people like to refer to it. I haven't done a superman or bicycles since days the Army but I'm about to start up again. Thank you again! Campbell Hi Thanks for inquiring. I apologize for not responding sooner. I did not receive a notification with your question until now. I guess there was a quirk the system. Some experts say that your abdominal muscles should only be worked every other day and to give them a rest like other muscles of the body. However, other experts say that it's perfectly fine to work your abs every day especially since abs are part of the core and get used much more than other muscles. If you want to do abdominal exercises everyday, play it by ear. If you get too sore, then back off and give your abs some time to heal. Campbell Hi Hezekiah. Yes, there are different exercises that help a person lose body fat. However, showing 6-pack abs is very difficult for most people. There is a misconception that certain exercises do the trick. Eating a wholesome diet also contributes to being more fit. However, most women rarely show 6 packs even at 15% body fat, and even more men won't show at that percentage. Most people on magazine covers that display 6 pack abs have gone through a process of dehydration their abdominal muscles show through. There are all kinds of methods for showing 6 packs, but most of them are impractical for everyday living such as dehydration to using Preparation H Thank you for commenting. Campbell Thank you for your comment, Be Like Water. This exercise is most definitely advanced exercise for the advanced trainee, sometimes taking 4 months to get to the L-sit position properly. It