You could focus on more «lower ab» exercises
like hanging leg raises, reverse crunches and hip lifts («toes to sky»), but even these won't help as long as you still have body fat covering the muscles.
For example, if I'm doing shoulders, I might do seated Arnolds right into dumbbell front raises right into close - grip upright rows, and then move into a set of abs,
like hanging leg raises or weighted sit - ups on a stability ball.
Those looking to build muscle and get a tight 6 pack often but themselves at risk with poor exercises choices
like hanging leg raises and toes to bar.
Not exact matches
Sample Exercise Setup: Chest — 3 exercises, 1 incline, 1 flat and 1 decline Back — 4 exercises, 1 wide chin up or latt pull, 1 row, 1 pulley or machine row, Deads or pullovers (alternate between these two) Delts — 3 exercises, overhead press, side laterals, bent laterals Triceps — 3 exercises, overhead tricep extension with bar or dumbbell, cable pressdown, machine dip Biceps — 3 exercises, preacher curl, barbell or dumbbell curl, cable curl Quads — 3 exercises, press of some kind, extension, hack or press or squat of some kind Hams — 1 exercise,
leg curl Calves — 3 exercises, standing calf
raise, bent lower back calf
raise (
like donkey calf
raises where your upper body and lower body are in an «L» shape), seated calf
raises Abs - 3 exercises, weighted machine crunch,
hanging leg lifts, cable reverse crunches Traps — 1 exercise, shrugs
They figure there are superior ways to train the abdominal muscles,
like the butterfly crunches,
hanging leg raises, reverse crunches, the stomach vacuum etc..
Exercises
like planks, T stab push ups and side planks need to be put together with things
like the hyperextension, woodchop,
hanging leg raise and the bicycle to really round things out and work every part of the core, in all kinds of ways.
The well - known floor abs exercises just
like crunches, sit ups and others are good, but if you want a real strong and great looking midsection, you should include various
hanging leg raises in your routine.
Exercises
like ab wheel rollouts,
hanging leg raises and weighted carries nail the abs and are essential to creating a strong core and a solid looking midsection.
Some of the common ab moves
like crunches, old - fashioned sit - ups,
hanging leg raises, broom twists and sprinting, are great for building abdominal muscle.
This is done just
like Lying Leg
Raises but
hanging from a bar and
raising your
legs which have to be maintained straight.