5 ABsolutely Great Exercises

I don’t want to pound it into your head again and again how important diet is. . . While diet is extremely important to achieving those abs you want, it’s not the most exciting topic. . So, for the sake of keeping you guys’ and girl’s from falling asleep, I’m going to assume that you already know HOW IMPORTANT DIET IS! and I’ll give you what you really want. . and that is a list of really great ab exercises guaranteed build abdominal muscles. .

Cable Crunches - This is one of my favorite ab exercises. After the first set your abs will be burning up! and it beats the heck out of doing countless “standard crunches”. .

Cross-Body Crunch - A very easy way to add a TWIST to your basic crunches. Increases the effectiveness of the crunch and produces better results.

Decline Crunch - Another great crunch variation that will produce better ab results than your typical crunches. . After you’ve mastered this one, try having a partner toss you a medicine ball while you perform these. .

Lying Leg Raises - The bottom abs are said to be the hardest to reveal, so these next two exercises are designed to target your lower abdominal muscles and get them to finally come out from hiding.

Hanging Leg Raises - Another awesome way to get your body abs to pop out.

*All pictures used are from BodyBuilding.com’s exercise database, where you can learn to perform 1,000s of exercises with the right form the get the results you achieve