• Reverse Crunch:
Lying on your back, hold a weight (if lying on the floor) or the foot bar (if using the sit-up board). Keep the knees slightly bent.
Pull your pelvis and legs up so that your knees are above your chest and then return to beginning position.
For more info, download Best Ab Exercises, a free ebook.
• Lying Leg Raises:
Lie on your back with your hands, palms down under your buttocks. Raise your legs about 30cm (12") off the floor and hold them there. Now trying to use just your lower abs, raise your legs by another 15cm (6"). Do this by tilting the pelvis instead of lifting the legs with the palms. Make sure your knees are slightly bent.
For more info, download Ab Makeover, a free ebook.
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• Ab Crunches:
Lying on your back, put your knees up in the air so that your thighs are at a right angle to your torso, with your knees bent. Put your hands either behind your head or gently touching the sides of your head. Now, slowly raise your shoulders off the ground as if you were trying to touch your breastbone to your pelvis, breathing out as you go.
You can increase the difficulty of the exercise by extending your hands out behind your head instead of keeping them at the side. Make sure you keep your hands still.
• Cross-Knee Crunches:
Like ab crunches, take the lying, bent-knee position, but this time crunch diagonally so that you try to touch each shoulder to the opposite hip alternately. At the top position, one shoulder and one hip should be off the ground.
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