Ab Exercises
The best Abdominal Exercise!

If I were you, I wouldn't waste time working abdominals on the WLC Program. If you have to work your abs, then fit them into your weight lifting schedule somehow and make sure they don't affect the other exercises you are doing.


I don't want you to do so many abdominal exercises that your abs get very sore. Then you try doing your first set of squats and your abs are sore and affecting your squats. Or you try to do your pull ups and can't because your abs are killing you.


You will use your abs in many of the compound exercises you will be doing. I don't believe you need extra ab work. So, I am not listing a ton of abs exercise programs or the ridiculous ab exercises on this page because most everyone will have great looking abs once they lose the layer of fat that is hiding them!

Sorry if you were looking for a list of exercises. If you have a good weight lifting program such as WLC you will have no need to do extra ab work. Please, please, do not fall into that trap. Working your abs without a complete weight lifting program will do next to nothing for you! All of those ab machines and programs on TV that you see are absolutely worthless!


Many of the websites out there based upon the topic of abs are only there to take advantage of all the people searching for abs exercise information! Their exercises do nothing for your abs. Think about it. What are you doing these exercises for? You're getting nothing for them! I'll explain...

People have been led to believe by TV commercials, magazines, and websites that they can lose fat around their midsection simply by using some abdominal machine. You cannot lose fat around your belly by doing any exercise! So, what exactly are you hoping to achieve by doing all those crunches? Crunches really are worthless!


Weight lifting is for building muscle, correct? So, if you've had low enough body fat to see your abs and they look small, then you might want to start adding some ab exercises into your weight lifting program using the correct techniques. Follow the WLC Program guidelines, and you'll have your abs looking good in no time!


Most people will love what their abs look like under the layers of fat without doing any ab exercises at all. If you've been following a good weight lifting program packed full of compound exercises, you will not need to do any extra exercises for your abs! Stop wasting your time.

Click Here for Six Pack Abs! Learn from a fitness model champion: Vince DelMonte. Get six pack abs in 6 months. Read more about the success of others at the link above! Vince knows how to get those abs showing. He knows it's not all about some random ab exercises. Check out his program today!

If you want to lose fat around your midsection, start a good diet and work on losing 1 to 2 pounds of weight per week. Use weight lifting to build muscle and cardio to burn fat. Your body will choose the location that it wants to burn fat. When your body decides to burn fat around your midsection, that's when it will happen.


All you can do is work on losing a pound or so a week by lifting weights, eating a great diet with a calorie deficit, and performing cardiovascular exercise. Remember that no ab exercise will burn that fat around your midsection. Don't fall into any of those traps! Just because you get a burning sensation in your abs when doing some crunches, it doesn't mean that you're burning fat.


The best thing you can do to get abs is lift weights progressively, do cardio, and eat a diet packed full of only nutritious foods. No junk food allowed. If you really want to lose fat fast, see my free fat loss diet.

If you still don't believe me and you just have to do some extra abdominal work, please follow my advice from here on out. Whenever you do any exercises, always have a plan for progression.


As you know, I don't believe in doing extra work for your abs, but I do have some advice for you. Progress is the word. Whether it be progression in the number of reps or progression by adding weight to your exercises, you always need to work on getting better. That's how you make progress!


My suggestion for the best ab exercise I've ever done is the Swiss Ball Crunch. The image below shows a swiss ball. You'll need one of those to perform the exercise I will discuss below. Check out all the exercise balls on Amazon. You might want to get a burst resistant one if you plan on using it for other weight lifting exercises.

Alright, now that you have your Swiss Ball on the way, I can tell you about the Swiss Ball Crunch. I see it as the best ab exercise because you can get the greatest range of motion on this exercise. I've always believed in exercises that have great stretch positions, such as stiff legged deadlifts and preacher curls. Well, the swiss ball crunch is the equivalent of those exercises for your abs. Once you try a swiss ball crunch, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.

The movie above shows exactly what a swiss ball crunch is and why I see them as the best ab exercise out there! If you must do extra work for your abs, this is the exercise of choice. I recommend that you do only one set of these crunches per workout.


So, one set 3 times per week will be plenty of work for your abs. Work on progression. For example, if you are using the WLC Program, you'll be planning to lift weights for 12 weeks and 3 full body workouts per week.


I don't suggest that you add weight to your ab exercises simply because most people don't want big abs! I know I don't. It would take you a long time to build up your abs and you shouldn't worry about it too much especially if you're in a calorie deficit. But, there's no need to add weight unless you are working on building muscle.


Your plan of progression could be to increase the number of crunches by 1 each workout. Or increase by 2 each workout starting at 20 crunches. Just make a plan of progression and stick to it! If you want to add weight, you could cycle reps and weight just like I do in the WLC Program for other exercises.


And always remember that I don't like to work the abs at all when using a good weight lifting program consisting of compound exercises. I like to save my abs for help on squats, deadlifts, rows, pull ups, and pretty much every compound weight lifting exercise! My abs get enough work from those exercises and many others! And yours will too! Just wait until you do a very heavy set of deadlifts and tell me your abs didn't get worked. They must do their job in order for you to complete a rep.

Join WLC Space today! I give personal help for free to everyone who joins. You need to understand that I'm here to help you, and I want to help you. I've provided WLC Space for free and pay the fees from my own pockets! You can create your own personal page, weight lifting log, blog, add videos, and more.


And don't forget to add this page on abdominal exercises to your favorites. I've provided easy links for you to do that below. Share this page with your friends and get the word out on ab exercises. Tell your friends and family to stop wasting their time working their abs! The people in the commercials didn't get that body using the ab lounge or whatever silly machine they're using.


Contact me at WLC Space if you have any questions or want personal help from me!