Best Abs Exercises for lower abs and upper abs

Best Abs Exercises Technique For 3-D Abs!

best abs exerciseCheck out any local gym and you’ll see inexperienced members training their abs with endless sets of situps and crunches, right?

While the abs are predominantly made of Type 1 (endurance) muscle fibers and respond to slightly higher repetition ranges,your abs are made up of muscle just like any other part of your body.

Therefore the best abs exercises to get that “cut” look are those that are resistance-based and treat them like any other muscle.

But there’s a special little trick you must know in order to maximize your abs training on your way to having a stacked 6-pack.

In fact, ignoring this principle, could force you to develop “lopsided” abs that are so common among beginner bodybuilders.

Let me share this secret with you now…

The main abdominal muscle you want to be working when training your abs is your “rectus abdominis”, that sheet of rippled muscle that goes from your rib cage all the way down the front of your body to your pelvis.

What’s unique about this abdominal muscle group is that the upper abs can work separately from the lower abs (to some extent)…BUT when you work your lower abs exercises, your upper abs are ALWAYS working as well.

This is why most people had overdeveloped upper abs but underdeveloped lower abs.

Here’s how to correct this…

Make sure you train your LOWER ABS first in your abs workout (ALWAYS!) which brings both upper and lower abs into the workload!

If you don’t work your lower abs first, you exhaust your upper abs too soon and when you DO target your lower abs, your upper abs will fatigue too fast and you’ll end up with under-targeted lower abs.

So the best exercises for lower abs are:

* Incline Leg Raises
* Incline Knee Ups
* Hanging Leg Raises
* Flat Bench Leg Raises

And then follow up with the best upper abs exercises:

* Crunches
* Weighted Crunches
* Situps
* Hanging Knee Raises

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the best ab exercise hanging leg raises

best ab exerciseEver wondered what the best ab exercise is, well it is the hanging leg raise, period!!, but you need to perform this best ab exercise correctly to see the results.
Without doubt the hanging leg raise is the best ab exercise for faster muscle growth for a deep creviced 6-pack.
 
To demonstrate the key areas you absolutely must get right for the Knee Raise abs exercise, I’m going to break this movement down into 5 key areas.
 
The first one is grip:
Often times what happens is that your grip gives out before your abs do and you find you can’t support yourself long enough to reach failure in your abs.
 
The solution?
 
Get a set of either weight lifting “straps” or preferably a set of 1-Ton Hooks to alleviate your grip on the bar.
This allows you to “hang” from the bar without having to hold on for dear life, taxing your grip strength to failure.
 
Next, let’s look at the bottom position of the movement or the
“start” position:
 
While most people just hang straight down, this actually decreases your potential range of motion. 
 
What I like to do is try and bend my legs, arch my back, and bring my feet up as far in back of me as possible as if I were trying to touch the back of my head with my feet.
 
You’ll feel a great stretch in your abs using this trick and this is where you should be starting each repetition.
 
The next phase is the positive movement, when you’re bringing your knees up in front of you:
Here you want to use a controlled movement that doesn’t rely on momentum to bring your knees up in front of you. 
 
Let your abs do the work!
 
Breathing is also key here and you want to make sure you’re breathing out as you contract your abs and bring your knees up in front of you.

Next, let’s talk about the top position or “peak contraction point”:

While most people end the movement with their upper legs parallel to the floor, to get maximum contraction, you need to shift your hips UP and try to bring your knees up toward your head. This is what “crunches” your abs and allows you to really squeeze hard.

Hold that squeeze for a couple of seconds with all the air out of your lungs before moving into the next phase which is the negative movement.

Instead of just dropping your legs down, you want to come down in a slow 4-count descent to take advantage of gravity and the weight and resistance it offers your abs.  This will help better target your Type 2 Fast Twitch Muscle fibers to really stimulate some growth and help you carve out your 6-pack.

 Make sure you go through this mental checklist in your head for each repetition of your Hanging Knee Raises and you’ll see increased gains and better results from this incredible best ab exercise!

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Advanced Ab Training Exercise : Knee Raise Dips

advanced ab workoutCombine these 2 powerful exercises to see  your abs FAST!
Sure there’s a time for “micro-targeting” your abs to really dig in deep and shred some muscle fibers.

But you know that this is only HALF of the battle, right?

 

 

If you really want to see your 6-pack, you’re gonna have to shred some FAT as well and the exercise I’m going to show you will help you accomplish BOTH…

…at the same time!

You see, by working a “chain” of muscles together, you can not only target muscle fibers for growth, but you also recruit more TOTAL muscle fibers.

This helps by increasing overall calorie expenditure DURING your workout…

…and jacks up your metabolism even higher AFTER your workout!

Here’s a GREAT exercise that demonstrates this powerful principle:

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Train your abs like all other muscles.

People say to me Why do you train your abs like all other muscles?  This often confuses me why people seem to think that abs should be trained differently, you need to train your abs like other muscles! 

   Take a good look around the gym and I am sure like myself you see light weight skinny guys with hardly any body fat that still don’t have a set of six pack abs. This dispels the myth of low levels of body fat reveals abs. Have you ever stopped to wonder why, well the reason is you need to train your abs like all other muscles. Yes, to get thick rippled six pack abs you need to train your abs with the same principles that apply to getting wider shoulders, bulging biceps and thick pectorals.
That’s right overload, high intensity resistance weight training builds a defined ripped mid section. There are no different rules to train your abs so don’t let anybody tell you any different. Here are some ab building tips to implement in your ab workout routine: (more…)


Review of the Six Pack Quest Abs program

     

  We take a close look at the hottest ab shredding program that is taking the  fitness world by storm. If you are looking for hot sexy abs ready for the summer then this could be the program for you. Fitness guru Vince DelMonte brings us the six pack quest program. 

Personally I am on the third week of the ab shredding program and I am already seeing results particularly in muscle tone. The beauty of the program in my eyes is that it is all laid out for you in black and white with easy to follow instructions. All the exercises, the reps, the sets the diet, in fact all the avenues are covered for getting those washboard abs. Anyway enough of my babbling come and read more about the six pack quest abs program


The Six Pack Abdominal Workout Part 3

Your Genetics and Abdominals

Right now some of you can see a perfectly set of staggered abs that are wide and thick and separated by a line down the middle.  Some of you have the classic four-pack which is four big abs with a smooth lower section.  Some of you have tiny cubicle boxes sitting high on your abdominal wall.  Some of you have the picture perfect eight-pack that makes people’s jaws drop. 

Like every muscle group, all you can do is train them as heavy and hard as possible and hope your genetics take care of the rest. You can’t change the shape or alignment or separation of your abs.  You can’t move them around and place them where you want them.  Your genetics will affect to which degree they “pop” out and to which degree they stay smoother or flatter. 

The good news is that abdominals are abdominals and when your body fat levels are around 5-7% you are guaranteed to impress people, including yourself, with a set of hot-looking abs.  Even though genetics play a huge role in how they look, it’s important to know how to train them to make them look their best.  (more…)


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