Moves and Tips to Build Best Abs

Use these techniques and exercises to start shredding some killer abs

Ab Training Tips

• Training them twice weekly without fail.
• Treating them like any other muscle group rather than an afterthought.
• Slowing the tempo and focusing on both the stretch and squeeze of each exercise.
• Adding more resistance to every abdominal movement so that fewer reps can be performed.
• Taking every set to failure.
• Finding a core of abdominal exercises that I personally “feel” the most and sticking with them.

Preferred Ab Exercises 

• Weighted Floor Crunches
• Cable Crunches
• Seated Crunch Machine
• Hanging Straight and Bent Leg Raises
• Incline Straight and Bent Leg Raises
• Lying Side Crunch
• Cable Side Crunch

This is an outline of the kind of program I 

POWER WEEK

• Weighted Floor Crunches (with up to a 120 lb. DB on my chest): 3-4 x 10-12
• Hanging or Supported Straight Leg Raise (with DB held between feet): 3-4 x 10-12

REP RANGE WEEK

• Cable Crunch: 2-3 x 12-15
• Incline Straight Leg Raise: 2-3 x 15-20
• Lying Side Crunch: 2-3 x 20-25 each side

SHOCK WEEK

• Dropset-Seated Crunch Machine: 2 x 15-20, drop, 8-10
• Superset-Hanging or Supported Bent Leg Raise/Incline Bent Leg Raise: 2 x 15-20 each
• Rest Pause-Cable Side Crunch: 1 x 12-15, rest 10 seconds…max reps, rest 20 seconds…max reps

Try this program yourself utilizing the same exercises I do, or better yet the ones you have personally found most effective. There is no magic formula behind building “bricks” for abs – what it takes is committing to treat them just like any other major muscle group.