Lower abs workouts exercises- Can you isolate your upper and lower abs ?
Can you isolate your upper and lower abs ? Well, people have been finding the answer to this but there are all sorts of explanations and answers to it. If we talk in terms of the way the muscles work, you really can’t isolate them. Perhaps that is why 8 pack abs aren’t there.
If you are doing bench press, basically three muscles work in conjunction - the pecs, the triceps and the deltoids. While doing a dumbell fly, you are doing more of pecs in isolation. There are exercises in which the primary muscle won’t do workouts alone but rather get assisted from other muscles. The same is true of the abs. You can’t completely isolate the lower from the upper abs or the abs from the obliques.
Having that said, there are special techniques you can employ to make the lower part of abs do more work than the upper abs. The abdominal muscles are not a single long muscle like the biceps, which has continuous fibers running the entire length from origin to insertion. The ab muscles have a tendinous band in between each section. It is due to this the abs seem segmented.(Btw trying hoodia gordonii is a must for fat loss.)
Now there are two basic crunches:- simple crunches (that draw the upper body towards the lower body) will work on upper abs and reverse crunches (reverse crunches, hip lifts, and leg raises etc. that draw the lower body towards the upper body) will work on lower abs. In both cases the abs muscles do not work alone.