In today’s post I’m going to give you my top 11 favourite ab exercises. 

Let’s face it… having rock hard abs has got to be one the most impressive thing you can display on your body. Well, at least that’s what Jersey Shores ‘the Situation’ would say.

But he’s right. I mean, who doesn’t abs that turn heads?

As I’ve stated in previous posts, for beginners; apart from planks, side planks, prone mountains and bird dogs. All dynamic ab exercises, that I’m about to show you, are a waste of time for a couple reasons.

Beginners don’t need to perform dynamic ab exercises because…

At first; Beginners will get enough ab training from all other big compound exercises such as shoulder presses, chin ups, squats, deadlifts and pushups. They have a 2 bird with one stone effect, so why do any more if you don’t have to?

Usually all dynamic exercises are too hard for beginners to perform correctly with good technique. So until you build up your strength via body weight exercises and plank variations you won’t really benefit from doing em’.

Also remember that if you are above 15% body fat, it doesn’t matter how much you train your abs. What you need to do is focus on fat loss first and then move your focus towards getting a 6 pack. By the way these two posts should help you do that…

3 Food Swaps To A Flatter Stomach Without Cardio and How To Lose Stomach Fat Without Cardio

With that being said; more advanced ab exercises are very beneficial to the intermediate and advanced lifter. Not only will they add a new training difficulty to your workout. They will also help define that wanted ‘6 pack’.

How many times per week should I train my abs?

If you are just starting to introduce ab training into your workouts, a total of 8 sets of 10-20 reps per week is usually plenty.

So you would perform one abdominal exercise in your full body workout for 2 sets of 10-20 reps, and do the same for your 2 other training days. Just like how I have done in the Ripped Without Cardio workout.

As you adapt to the volume you can bump it up to a total or 12 sets a week or perform a more advance exercise.

Anyways… here are my top ab exercises…

TRX Bodysaw

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-JTJxZd5LU[/youtube]

TRX Pike

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV2PnHN9j0U[/youtube]

TRX Jackknife

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpKTItfr19w[/youtube]

TRX Fallouts

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYr2rNuMPK8[/youtube]

TRX Alternating Fallouts

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDwfspn9x4[/youtube]

TRX Oblique Crunches

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqomawEZLG8[/youtube]

Inch Worm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UOg58RIVUI[/youtube]

Cross Body Mountain Climbers

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7-pDPiKFu8[/youtube]

Chin Up With Knee Raises

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rTT0Sm1iV0[/youtube]

Front Lever With Row – Begginer Stage

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpFsUiRgUh8[/youtube]

Turkish Get Ups

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYFYpanxyVk[/youtube]

Those are my top 11 favourite ab exercises, what are your favourite?

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2. 4 Exercise Swaps To A Flatter Stomach Without Cardio
3. 4 Exercises You Need To Stay Away From
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