What are your best most effective ab exercises?
hillaryroland
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I don't normally work my core but I've been attempting to lately. I've done some research but just wanna see what other people do!
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My best results come from planks, deadlifts and kickboxing.0
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Planks and hanging leg raises work well for me.0
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Sit ups with a medicine ball held above my head. Love these!!!
Also, with an exercise ball (the big ones that you sit on). Lie flat on your back, holding it in your arms, arms stretched out above your head. Bring arms and legs up into a "V" and pass the ball from your arms to your feet. Lower ball to the ground and lower arms (lying flat again now). Reverse. Go into a "V", pass the ball back from your feet to your hands. Repeat.0 -
Planks are great. Also reverse crunches, bicycle crunches, and Russian twists.0
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Planks and bicycle crunches!0
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The best thing out of P90X, in my opinion, was Ab Ripper X. I still do variations of the stuff I used on that two to three times a week. Outside of that deadlifts, good mornings (stiff legged deadlifts) and planking work great.0
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plank twists
bicycle crunches
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squats and pullups0
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Bellydance undulations, up and down! Wow, I have abs again! :bigsmile:0
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http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/standing-cable-wood-chop
http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/standing-cable-lift
http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/pallof-press-with-rotation
Cruches on a stability ball holding a weight straight up over you chest
Standing side crunch - weight over head as if pulling down to the side as I lift straight to the side the leg of the same side (hope you understand that explanation, lol)
(I am keeping this on a ready to copy file - topic of the day is ABS... )0 -
I don't normally work my core but I've been attempting to lately. I've done some research but just wanna see what other people do!
My core gets some decent work just from powerlifting movements. More direct work I like Hanging Leg Raises and Palloff Presses.0 -
The key to hitting the directly is finding an exercise that allows you to flex the spine, so you're actually working the abs, not just the hip flexors.
I've found the best exercise to be weighted crunches on an exercise ball. I can flex my spine over the back of the ball and come up just high enough so I don't engage my hips. A couple of heavy sets and my abs are toast.0 -
Using an incline bench on the highest setting possible and pushing a 35 lb. weight towards the ceiling as I do a the sit ups, so I do not come up completely, I just push as high as I can in vertical line. I touch my back slightly as I go down, then repeat.0
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