What's the best way to get abs without using a machine for a female?
92131
Situps or, even better, crunches.  You don't need a machine.  Just something to hold your feet down.  The couch or a door with a high floor clearance.\n\nOf course, if you have some pudge, you'll just get what I call a six-pack in the cooler unless you do some cardio to get rid of the fat.
524517
Stomach crunches (Don't do sit ups), there are many sites that give AB exercises, with pictures. The secret to good ABS is to burn body fat. (The muscles are covered in layers of fat, in all of us). \nYou'll need to take up something like jogging/running to burn off the fat. You need to Jog for at least 40 Min's then do your AB workout. Do this 4 times a week. \nCombined with a low fat diet you should see results in 2 weeks. \nGood luck.
1058816
lay flat on your back, with your hands palm down at your side, put your legs together and lift them off the ground about 6 inches for as long as u can stand it.  this helps to work the lower (harder to tone) abs.
91853
The best piece of ab workout equipment is your floor.  Sittups crunches flutter kicks scissors bicycles, they're all good.  Alone that will help flatten your stomach, but honestly in order to burn all the fat in front(assuming you have some) you're going to need cardio-respatory fitness which means jogging or a bike or something for at least 20 minutes.  You should really strive for a total fitness routine rather that just "I want flat abs".  If you're only working out because you want a certain part to be more appealing I'd be willing to bet you're less likely to stick with the routine than if you were going for total fitness.
14027
Unless your body fat percentage is in the 6-8% range (assuming you are male) you will not be able to get your abs to show without dieting.  A six-pack is made in the kitchen, not the gym.
860915
If you have 'dumbells', [if you dont go buy some, awfully cheap] take 2 of them (same weight) and lift them slowly up and down as ur running. Itll def. give it tone! DEFINATLY. If you want to get ur abs done to my sister did this and ITS AWESOME! If you have OnDemand go to ExcerciseTV and they got some great workouts. if not that turbojam stuff really REALLY WORKS! MY body is like BOO YAH! bcuz of it! lol
618654
First thing you need to do is make sure your eating healthy and doing some walking will help with the hips, also they have machines at the gym just for that, and the arms if you just want to tone you can do lower weights with high reps, the dumbell curl is a good one also I forget there is a machine also for that but don"t know the name, you know it just depends on how bad you want it, and if you are serious about it, you can do anything you put your mind to, I am a 45 year old africa american who has been lifting weighs for along time, and my triceps and biceps and shoulders are my best part of my body, I get hit  on by younger men and compliments all the time by women of all ages, so girlfriend get to work the summer is right around the corner,
509808
No stomach exercises are easy. Persistence and determination are the best things. Crunches work great if you are determined. Try some leg raisers. Lay flat on your back and lift your legs up to the ceiling and even bringing them back over your head. This does wonders for the lower abs. Do them slow and controlled. Also, you say you go to the gym. Ask them their as there are many different ones you can do. Watch them also and learn.
124239
1) Have a good diet- washboard abs can be hidden if you have 8-10% body fat or more\n2) Exercise- Cardiovascular and Ab specific workouts 3-5 days a week\n3) Have good genetics because a lot of 'having great abs' is genetic.\n\nGood luck in your quest to rock hard abs and there benefits!
523209
There are a few things you can do:\n\n1) Incline Crunches (with or without weight): Use the benches they have at the gym and raise them so your feet are higher than your head and do situps.  Try to do 20-30 of these and if this is too easy, hold x pound bar bell weight in your hands across your chest and do situps.\n\n2) Reverse situps: You can either use a machine or the edge of your bed to do these.  If you are using the bed, lean over the bed with your hips on the edge of the bed, your head over the bed and the bottom portion of your body on the bed with someone holding your ankles.  Bend Your Upper Body down until you cant go any more (make sure you crunch your abs at this position well), then return to the starting position parralel to the ground. (again you can add weight if this is too easy).\n\n3) Leg Lifts: There are two variations of this.  Both you have to be suspended in the air (put your arms inside the loops that hang under the pullup/dip bar at the gym and do one of two things. A) Begin your legs pointing straight down and pull your legs into a "cannonball" position without using your hands, repeat.  B) You can hold your legs straight down and pull them parallel to the ground keeping them straight.\n\nHope this helps you deviate from the boring situp/crunch!
318078
First and foremost, stay away from any ab machine you see on TV as they are simply a waste of money and barely effective.\n\nThe abdominal muscles work just like any other muscle and have to be challenged as such. If you want muscular abdominals, you have to challenge them with resistance and good form just like you would your chest, your back or any other muscle for that matter. Targeting the correct energy system is imperative. This means you should never enter into the aerobic phase of this exercise, ideally keeping it under 2 minutes at most. \n\nThink of rolling a carpet and contracting fully on the top of the movement and squeeze. If you do them correctly, you shouldn't be able to do more than 30 crunches. Any more than that, and you're probably doing them half-azz, incorrectly or with a partial range of motion.\n\nFor the upper abs, focus on crunches which effectively work the abdominals better than sit-ups or any machine on the market.\n\nFor the lower abs, keep in mind there is very little muscle tissue there so decreasing levels of body fat is the most effective way to bring out the best in this area. Hanging leg raises, v-situps and reverse curls are among some of the best exercise for this region. Always make sure your pelvis curls up to maximize lower abdominal contraction during these exercises.\n\nAs far as fat loss and getting ripped goes, cardio, cardio, cardio. Abdominal exercises alone will never burn fat from your abdominal area. You must do cardiovascular exercise to accomplish this. Cardio is best in the morning, on an empty stomach at about 70-80% of your maximum heart rate for about 30-45 minutes. This combined with a common sense diet will quickly shed body fat so you can actually see those abs you've developed. \n\nI would encourage you to seek the advice and guidance of a personal trainer in your area for further education on these principles. Please ensure you start off at a very basic level for crunches and cardio if you are a beginner.\n\nHere's a good list of ab exercises:\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/fitness/Strength_Exercises_abdominals.html \n\n.\n.
703817
Here's my advice and the cold hard truth - if your going to buy an abs machine the only thing its going to do is tighten your muscles if you have some fat in the tummy area its not going to get rid of it. The only way to get rid of the jelly belly is thru total body loss. A good way to have great abs is through Cardio which will trim away the fat and then strength excercises which is good for your abdominal muscles.
773083
Ab excercises girl! Don't go to far if you don't want a six pac, but done it out a little. A muscular belly is pretty sexy.\n\nAb workouts\n\n1) sit-ups ( put weights across your chest and do them. Bout 10 pounds)\n\n2) Leg lifts: Lay down flat, and put both your legs over your head, then slowly put them down. Make sure each up and down takes at least four seconds.\n\n3) V sit: Sit on your butt, and lift your back and legs of the mat to form the shap of a V. Reach toward your toes for balance\n\nP.S. Diet while your doing all this. Eating chocolate cake WON'T exactly help. Peace!
596613
Do pilates!!! It is fun, difficult at first but come easier with time.  Pilates is all aobut core strength and toning.  GREAT for your abs! I love it!\n\nI got the pilates for dummies DVD.. it's great...not complicated at all. hahah..\n\nhttp://www.pilates.com/\n\n^for more info!  Good luck!
967108
eat good and do crunches and situp, my girl did the ab lounge and that worked
822298
Cardio.  Even if you do a thousand crunches a day, if you dont do any cardio, you'll never see those abs.  While youre doing cardio, make sure you have a healthy diet.\n\nAs for the ab work. Try getting an exercise ball.  Doing crunches on the ball and push ups on the ball is GREAT for your abs.  Pilates is also really good for your abs and obliques.  Make sure youre exercising your obliques as well.
785254
lay on the floor and have someone stand over you with a foot by each of your shoulders.  Keep your legs straight and raise your feet up so that your legs are straight up and down.  Now have the person push your feet (kind of a throwing motion) back toward the floor quite forcefully.  You have to use your low abs to stop them from hitting the floor and then quickly bring them back up again.  Do this about 50 times a day and you will have awesome abs!!!  It really works