Abs Workout: 3 Days a Week

If you're starting to get serious with your Abs Workouts, this is a 3-day split which breaks up your ab exercises into upper, lower & obliques and spreads them over a 3 day period.
Depending on your fitness levels, you can either keep to the 3 days per week or, if you're more advance, double them [...]

Abs Workout: Total Hit

The aim of the Total Hit Abs workout is to attack all of your ab muscles in one session. This is an ideal workout to do on one of your cardio days and is best done after your cardio session so you're nicely warmed up.
Before we dive into the workout itself, let's have a quick [...]

Abs Workout: The Top-5 Abs Exercises Workout

This Abs workout is made up of the top 5 rated abs  exercises*
Remember that killer abs and an amazing six-pack can’t be get by exercise alone. You need to be looking at less than 10% body fat for most people to have a visible 6-pack.
That said, the benefits of a strong core and abs region [...]

Training Your Abdominals – Part 6: Mixing It Up

Your abdominals and your core play such a varied role in our everyday lives. Almost everything we do involves core stability to a certain extent – even sitting upright involves core stability. Core strength will heavily influence your athletic ability, and can also make you less likely to suffer from lower back problems. I’d be [...]

Training Your Abdominals Part 5: Leg Raises

When it comes to getting that elusive 6-pack, it’s not difficult to find someone in the gym doing crunches on the Swiss ball, or on an abdominal board, but I seldom see anyone doing leg raises. The abdominal muscles are actually quite long and extend from the base of your pectoral or chest muscles right [...]

Training Your Abdominals – Part 3: Decline/Abdominal Board or Bench

In Training Your Abdominals – Part 3 we’re going to cover the Decline Board or Abdominal Board in our quest for that ever elusive 6-pack!
As I said in previous blogs, trainers tend to want to use gym apparatus to train their abs, rather than doing plain old floor exercises. That’s fine in principle, but the [...]

Training Your Abdominals – Part 4: The Stability Ball

The stability ball, sometimes known as the Swiss ball is similar to the decline or abdominal board in that it is designed to add an extra dimension to crunches or sit ups. Of course, the Swiss ball can be used for a variety of different exercises, and we may come back to it when we [...]

Training Your Abdominals – Part 2: Mastering & Improving Your Sit-ups

Sit-ups are probably the most commonly performed exercise in the gym, and one of the worst executed by exercisers – especially if you’re exercising in the comfort of your own home gym. For such a popular exercise, you very rarely see it done in its purest form i.e. on the floor without any equipment. You [...]

Training Your Abdominals Part 1: Don’t Rely On Situps Alone For 6-Pack Abs!

Training Your Abdominals Part 1 – Some Common Myths
If you go into any gym, you will see a wide variety of exercises being performed that are supposed to be for training your abs. Decline boards, stability balls and various other gadgets are all employed to give you a more effective workout, and many promise to [...]