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What's your favorite Ab exercise?

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edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
My favorite is Ab Ripper X (from p90x). However, I am getting bored with it. What's your favorite and why?

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    "L" holds on parallel bars :smile:
  • Posts: 3,116 Member
    Deadlifts
  • Posts: 16 Member
    edited September 2015
    Working out at home or at the gym?

    Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ZiTMxRbyY give this a try

    Gym:

    1) I personally love hanging leg raises. Alternate options include: leg raises to the sides, bringing your legs all the way to the bar (that you are holding), knee bends with a weight around your ankles. All will target slightly different muscle groups. I'd suggest doing one variation a day. 3 sets of 10-12 reps. This will target your lower abs.

    2) Weighted crunches on the medicine ball. I set the cable row at it's lowest position with a rope attached to it. Lay down on the medicine ball so your mid-back has great support (slide around until you find the right spot), grab the rope and hold it around your neck. Crunch away, make sure you are using your abs and not your neck. I usually do 10-14 reps.

    3) Right after wrapping up #2 above, I slide up on the ball so now your weight rests on your lower back/butt. With rope in the same position, start bringing your torso up.

    You can do a superset with these exercises. Start with #1, right away get on the medicine ball and do #2, then #3. Rest for 30 seconds, go for it again.

    Finish it up with planks...work your way up to holding good position for 60 seconds.

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    Kickboxing and high box jumps.

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  • Posts: 61,406 Member
    In b4 squats and deadlifts!!



  • Posts: 2,459 Member
    Weighted crunches and weighted leg lifts. Pretty boring :smile: For fun and muscle control, bellydance! But you don't move enough weight in bellydance to build muscle, just use it a lot, which works if disuse is someone's problem.
  • Posts: 3,116 Member
    DavPul wrote: »
    In b4 squats and deadlifts!!



    You're late because I already said deadlifts :tongue:
  • Posts: 61,406 Member
    wolfsbayne wrote: »
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    You're late because I already said deadlifts :tongue:

    DAMMIT!!


    In b4 RKC planks!
  • Posts: 3,472 Member
    Deadlifts and fork put-downs
  • Posts: 16 Member
    DavPul wrote: »
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    DAMMIT!!


    In b4 RKC planks!

    Already said planks :D
  • Posts: 379 Member
    V ups or tossing the ball back and forth on the decline ab bench
  • Posts: 4,955 Member
    Dead bugs because they are fun. Supermen because they are the last in my very long set of correctives and getting to them means I'm a minute away from being done.
  • Posts: 61,406 Member
    plyadnov wrote: »
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    Already said planks :D

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    DavPul wrote: »
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    DAMMIT!!


    In b4 RKC planks!

    I remember that thread. You crack me up. You're never gonna like RKC planks go.
  • Posts: 15,573 Member
    I can't remember the last time I did an ab exercise.

    Wait! This guy at the gym was throwing a medicine ball at me while I was on a decline bench and we were doing some kind of ab work. This was a few weeks ago. We plan on doing it again summer 2016.
  • Posts: 61,406 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
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    I remember that thread. You crack me up. You're never gonna like RKC planks go.

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  • Posts: 5,424 Member
    Front levers
  • Posts: 11,233 Member
    Boat pose with scissor kicks on the ground or egg/pike/arrow in the silks
  • Posts: 1,150 Member
    Cable crunches are my favourite atm
  • Posts: 3 Member
    Iron_Miss_Canada wrote: »
    Dead bugs because they are fun. Supermen because they are the last in my very long set of correctives and getting to them means I'm a minute away from being done.

    I love dead bugs!
  • Posts: 5,864 Member
    Hiati yoga. I find doing 20 minutes a day keeps my abs and core tight.
  • Posts: 4,855 Member
    Ab wheel.
  • Posts: 9 Member
    Stomach vacuuming and good ol' crunches.
  • Posts: 1,303 Member
    FrejaHetty19 wrote: »
    Stomach vacuuming and good ol' crunches.

    I try to vacuum my kids stomachs, and the youngest one freaks out... I then have to carry her around and calm her down... I guess that is good exercise :+1:
  • Posts: 103 Member
    jez_4ever wrote: »
    My favorite is Ab Ripper X (from p90x). However, I am getting bored with it. What's your favorite and why?

    This was my fav too now I do 10min Hardcore from 21Day Fix

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