abs

[stealthx]

what are the best ab workouts you can do yourself with just your own body weight. Instead of doing hundreds of leglifts, crunches, situps etc. Is there one workout that you can do to failure with works your abs harder and faster instead of just normal endurance. i have heard janda situps are good, is there a way to do them by yourslef without a partner? what other forms of ab workouts are there that work the abs really hard without the need for hundreds of reps, that you can do by yourself and without any equipment or weights

[Turing]

Advice

Try downloading 8 minute abs and doing that. It seems to burn pretty darn good. It only takes 8 minutes, when you compare that to your chest or legs or arms or back or shoulders or cardio routine, its pretty freakin quick.

[Ripley]

With your own body weight, try sit-ups on a decline - you'll need a slope or a decline bench in a gym. Alternatively, after your warm up sit-ups try holding your legs at 6 inches above the ground then moving them up to 90 degrees and back down. You can start to increase the speed you drop them down the floor at to increase the difficulty. I'm assuming that you want to build ab strength, not just fitness. Otherwise, there are plenty of variations on crunches and sit-ups that you'll find in aerobics books in your local library.

[JoAnn]

Great Abs and Core Toughner

Lay on your back and begin to slowly crunch up, as you crunch lift your legs to a 90 degree position. Hold them there while you do 50 crunches, when you have finished, drop the legs to a 60 degree position while you do 50 more slow crunches, and when you have done those 50, drop the legs to a 30 degree position and do 50 more crunches. When you have finished you will have done 150 crunches. There are variations of this. However these work real good for me.

[Viadante]

I believe in the "low body fat, concentrate on lower abs/obliques" school. I've found that exercises for lower abs that are good are; the plank, V-seat sit-ups/"teasers", Ab wheels (don't mock these, they are used in my Adv. Gym class and can really be a workout), Plyo/Exercise ball roll-outs, and simple leg raisers. For obliques, I do a side-bend type exercise with a roman chair + med ball, the "Lumberjack" which uses a cable tower, and bicycle crunches.