What Ab Exercises Should You Be Doing
Regularly To Build The Abdominals?

Ab exercises are useless (or just about useless) if you've been doing compound exercises as laid out in the WLC System Manual. Compound weight lifting exercises work and strengthen the abs VERY well.

Most everyone has good looking abs but they are hidden under a layer of fat -- even without doing much exercise at all.

All of those crunches and other exercises people do only burn calories which may help you to see your abs in the future if you are on a fat loss or weight loss diet.

You do need to strengthen your abs, though and compound exercises will do that.

You don't want to build huge abdominal muscles because they don't look good if they're huge. But don't worry about that unless you are doing monstrous weights for your abdominal exercises.

Stop right now and cleanse your head of all the abdominal exercise information you've learned over the years.

You don't need it and never will. Stick with me, and you'll learn everything you need to know to have strong and great looking abs.

If I were you, I wouldn't waste time working abdominals separately from the compound weight training exercises.

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 the fat is gone and strong abs once they are strong on the compound exercises.

STOP Wasting Time Working Your
Abs With Isolation Exercises...

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...

This Is Why People Waste Their Time...

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 directly around your belly by doing any resistance exercise... resistance exercise doesn't burn fat directly.

So, what exactly are you hoping to achieve by doing all those crunches? Crunches really are worthless. They may burn a few extra calories, but that's about it.

Weight lifting is for building muscle, correct?

So, if you've had low enough body fat to see your abs and they look small or less than ideal, then you might want to start adding some ab exercises into your weight lifting program using the correct techniques.

Follow the WLC System guidelines for building muscle, 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.

If you want to lose fat around your midsection, start a good diet and work on losing 1 to 2 pounds of body fat 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... it's not going to happen.

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 with the best exercises, do cardio, and eat a diet packed full of only nutritious foods. No junk food allowed. If you really want to lose fat fast, make sure you download the WLC System Manual by filling out the form below.

If You Must Work The Abs...

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 video 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 weight lifting 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 System, you'll be planning to lift weights with 3 full body workouts per week.

If you are looking to build the abs, you need to progressively add weight to your exercises.

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. Or add weight to the exercises.

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 System for other exercises.

And always remember -- you don't NEED to work the abs at all when using a good weight lifting program consisting of compound exercises.

Save that abdominal strength for help on squats, deadlifts, rows, pull ups, and pretty much every compound weight lifting exercise.

Your abs get enough work from those exercises and many others. Just wait until you do a very heavy set of deadlifts and tell me your abs didn't get worked.

The abs must get stronger, and they must do their job in order for you to complete a rep.

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