Favorite Ab Excercises

[SpartanKid]

Post your favorite 3 or so. Mine are:

1. Cable Crunches

2. My modified version of Mason-Twists

3. Bicycle Crunch

[JohnDoeNumba1]

1) Medicine Ball Crunches
2) Hanging Leg Raises
3) V-Ups

[Kostabot]

Cable crunches, leg raises (with my trunk vertical, legs hanging down, then raised with legs kept straight), and russian twists.

[anthem1]

1. Dragon flags
2. Hanging leg raises
3. Bosu-ball crunches

[SpartanKid]

1) Medicine Ball Crunches
2) Hanging Leg Raises
3) V-Ups

Cool. I also like just lying leg raises, but I dont like hanging leg raises that much. My abs arent strong enough to get more than a few reps, before it feels like my legs take over.

[Verdelet]

Heavy deadlifts, they nail my abdomen.

[Turco]

Heavy deadlifts, they nail my abdomen.

Are you doing them backwards, starting from a bridge position?

[redbullrr]

1. Weighted Hanging leg raises - Great for Lower Abs when done rite.
2. Weighted Laying Down Leg Raises - Great for Lower Abs
3. Weighted Crunches (NickEdge - had this on his blog and I started to follow it, and now have much more definition then I ever had).
4. Side to side Heel touch (Not sure of proper name)
5. Cable Crunches.
6. Ab Wheel - For a great stretch.

[bonvec01]

I just started doing L-Pullups, these hit the core pretty hard.

[nano.ix]

Heavy deadlifts, they nail my abdomen.

How about shrugs?

[Verdelet]

I was being serious, my deadlift form is good. I followed chad waterbury's workout program a while back and like he said i found that they were enough for my abs.

[direttore]

Excercise Ball Crunches, Cable Crunches, Plank

[Juggernaut33]

Reverse crunches, legraises, and cable crunches.

[galgut]

1)Roll outs
2)Hanging leg raises
3)Cable crunchies

[JOSEF RAKICH]

1. Hanging leg raises

2. Cable Crunches

3. Jack knifes

[Be_Easy]

1. weighted decline bench sit ups (using a 25lb plate)
2. weighted Russian twists on decline bench (using 10llb plate)
3. leg raises on the pull-up bar using ab straps

[TroJon]

I was being serious, my deadlift form is good. I followed chad waterbury's workout program a while back and like he said i found that they were enough for my abs.

Seeing as muscles can only contract to move, I don't see a deadlift causing your abs to contract against the weight load... If it were for example, a leg press where people frequently tense their abs at the bottom to press the weight back up - that's more believable.

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With regards to the thread, I personally like cable crunches and seated leg tucks. Am going to get a pair of ab slings soon tho because it sucks to do leg raises when your hands and shoulders get a proper rollicking from holding on for too long!

[400Lb Gorilla]

situps, crunches, leg raises, planks

[nano.ix]

Seeing as muscles can only contract to move, I don't see a deadlift causing your abs to contract against the weight load... If it were for example, a leg press where people frequently tense their abs at the bottom to press the weight back up - that's more believable.

Abs are a stabilizer in the movement , but they aren't involved enough to create massive abs

[-Lucifer]

How about shrugs?

You know, if you go real heavy while doing tricep pushdowns, it'll work your abs and core as well.

[nano.ix]

You know, if you go real heavy while doing tricep pushdowns, it'll work your abs and core as well.

you gotta do the compound tricep pushdown to crunch.
more activation = more muscle

/joke (just to be safe)

[Joelift]

With regards to the thread, I personally like cable crunches and seated leg tucks. Am going to get a pair of ab slings soon tho because it sucks to do leg raises when your hands and shoulders get a proper rollicking from holding on for too long!

The ab slings are great and a lot of fun.

[-GentleGiant-]

The most effective ab exercises for me are:

Captain's Chair Leg Raise

Exercise Ball Crunches

Weighted Crunches