What's your favorite Ab exercise?

jez_4ever
jez_4ever Posts: 68 Member
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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  • taronburrow
    taronburrow Posts: 1 Member
    "L" holds on parallel bars :smile:
  • wolfsbayne
    wolfsbayne Posts: 3,116 Member
    Deadlifts
  • plyadnov
    plyadnov 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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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,982 Member
    Kickboxing and high box jumps.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
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    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    In b4 squats and deadlifts!!



  • cafeaulait7
    cafeaulait7 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.
  • wolfsbayne
    wolfsbayne Posts: 3,116 Member
    DavPul wrote: »
    In b4 squats and deadlifts!!



    You're late because I already said deadlifts :tongue:
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    wolfsbayne wrote: »
    DavPul wrote: »
    In b4 squats and deadlifts!!



    You're late because I already said deadlifts :tongue:

    DAMMIT!!


    In b4 RKC planks!
  • yusaku02
    yusaku02 Posts: 3,472 Member
    Deadlifts and fork put-downs
  • plyadnov
    plyadnov Posts: 16 Member
    DavPul wrote: »
    wolfsbayne wrote: »
    DavPul wrote: »
    In b4 squats and deadlifts!!



    You're late because I already said deadlifts :tongue:

    DAMMIT!!


    In b4 RKC planks!

    Already said planks :D
  • LiveLoveLift48
    LiveLoveLift48 Posts: 379 Member
    V ups or tossing the ball back and forth on the decline ab bench
  • Willbenchforcupcakes
    Willbenchforcupcakes 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.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    plyadnov wrote: »
    DavPul wrote: »
    wolfsbayne wrote: »
    DavPul wrote: »
    In b4 squats and deadlifts!!



    You're late because I already said deadlifts :tongue:

    DAMMIT!!


    In b4 RKC planks!

    Already said planks :D

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  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    DavPul wrote: »
    wolfsbayne wrote: »
    DavPul wrote: »
    In b4 squats and deadlifts!!



    You're late because I already said deadlifts :tongue:

    DAMMIT!!


    In b4 RKC planks!

    I remember that thread. You crack me up. You're never gonna like RKC planks go.
  • arditarose
    arditarose 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.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
    DavPul wrote: »
    wolfsbayne wrote: »
    DavPul wrote: »
    In b4 squats and deadlifts!!



    You're late because I already said deadlifts :tongue:

    DAMMIT!!


    In b4 RKC planks!

    I remember that thread. You crack me up. You're never gonna like RKC planks go.

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  • rybo
    rybo Posts: 5,424 Member
    Front levers
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    Boat pose with scissor kicks on the ground or egg/pike/arrow in the silks
  • Karen_can_do_this
    Karen_can_do_this Posts: 1,150 Member
    Cable crunches are my favourite atm
  • TJFLAN28
    TJFLAN28 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!
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    Hiati yoga. I find doing 20 minutes a day keeps my abs and core tight.
  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    Ab wheel.
  • FrejaHetty19
    FrejaHetty19 Posts: 9 Member
    Stomach vacuuming and good ol' crunches.
  • nordlead2005
    nordlead2005 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:
  • DaceyG1990
    DaceyG1990 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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