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What Are the 5 or 6 Best Ab Exercises?
A question like that suggests you are going for firm, flat abs.It also tells me you are tired of wasting time doing countless crunches and what naught with relatively little to show for it.
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Or maybe you're just ready for the body of a swimsuit model and know it takes great looking abs to show off. Okay then you want to read on to learn about some of the most effective ab exercises. As you probably already know your abdominals are one of the most challenging parts of your body to firm up. Or perhaps that's better put to see how much you've firmed them up. Because it's not necessarily that you aren't building the muscle it is just that there is a layer of fat covering the muscles being developed. |
So you really have to both burn off the fat and firm the abs. Since this isn't about the former let's briefly explore the latter. As luckily which exercise will give you the best abdominal workout has already been studied.
That's right. The American Council had researchers at San Diego State University identify the best of the best exercises for the midsection. Scientifically measuring muscle stimulation of the both the rectus abdominis and internal and external obliques of a group of test subjects.
The idea was to find out which exercises required constant stabilization of the midsection and involved the obliques.
The
Top 6 Ab Exercises
were found to be1. The bicycle maneuverComing in next was the
2. The captain's chair
3. Crunches on a exercise ball
4. Vertical leg crunch
5. Torso track - a so called "ab machine" that is no longer available.
6. Long arm crunch
7. Reverse crunchIt's not hard to see why the Bicycle is tops. With the twisting, crunching and lifting of the your legs it's like three in one when it comes to ab workouts.
What you don't see are traditional sit ups. Another interesting fact is the traditional crunch landed in slot #11 in this study. Not what I would have expected.
So if you have limited time and want to get the most out of your ab work out, this list is a good place to start. And I know you may or may not agree with these. But there was a study done and this is what was found. Still you could argue that the best ab exercises are those that that produce the results you are look for, i.e. amazing-looking abs to show off.
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