What abdominal exercises work best?

Bump - I need to know this too. My abdomen hasn't lost any inches! :ohwell:

A lot of people will tell you that the best way to get abs is through heavy weight lifting, which I agree with. However, if you want to work your abs separately this is the workout I do. I have noticed a difference since starting it 2-3 times a week. Most of the time after an ab workout my abs aren't sore, but with this one I am always sore afterwards. I love it! If you don't know some of the exercises, google them. The whole workout only takes about 10 minutes.

I do situps on the yoga ball. I do some of them where I take my left elbow and touch it to my right knee. I use the ab circle. I do "the 100."

These exercises just build muscle under the fat. If you havent got rid of the fat it may make you look more round in the stomach.

Try to find an Ab Lounge at a thrift store. I found that it helps more than a regular sit up or crunch, because the floor tends to hurt my back. Also I found that the Dirty Dancing workout also gets rid of the love handles, as you are exercising your core at the same time the butt and thighs.

There are lots of X Minute Abs routine. A some on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNOm_ofoeWU

The Clean. Done with a barbell. KILLER core exercise.

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im also always trying to find new ab workouts, that is my problem area as well and i never get sore, might be doing it wrong

A lot of people will tell you that the best way to get abs is through heavy weight lifting, which I agree with. However, if you want to work your abs separately this is the workout I do. I have noticed a difference since starting it 2-3 times a week. Most of the time after an ab workout my abs aren't sore, but with this one I am always sore afterwards. I love it! If you don't know some of the exercises, google them. The whole workout only takes about 10 minutes.

This is awesome!

I do alot from this list, though there are some new ones I didn't know of and am now googling to include in my workouts. Posting this to spread it out... this is AWESOME

I love oblique exercises for really visible whittling of my sides in the least amount of time.

Well it depends. If you have stomache fat then you would want to stop all crunches and sit-ups and just do cardio (eliptical is great for burning fat calories). If you dont have that much fat, then you would obviously do alot of sit-ups. The best kinds of sit-ups are twisting sit-ups. If you dont know what that is, Its where you twist to your left or right as your sitting up. But the trick is to twist to your left, then without going down, twist to your right, then complete your sit-ups. This technique works for like 90% of people who do it.

Well it depends. If you have stomache fat then you would want to stop all crunches and sit-ups and just do cardio (eliptical is great for burning fat calories). If you dont have that much fat, then you would obviously do alot of sit-ups. The best kinds of sit-ups are twisting sit-ups. If you dont know what that is, Its where you twist to your left or right as your sitting up. But the trick is to twist to your left, then without going down, twist to your right, then complete your sit-ups. This technique works for like 90% of people who do it.

I disagree with this. You don't have to wait to start doing ab work until you have a certain amount of fat. Strength training is good at ANY bodyfat percentage. You just won't SEE all your results until you reach a certain bodyfat %, but that's true with all muscle groups, not just abs.

I personally think planks are the best for working your core.

However I will mention, and I'm sure it's been mentioned before me, doing ab work is not going to make you lose your stomach fat... it will work your muscles but it does nothing to the fat that's covering it up. Stay in a deficit, and it should go away.