You don't need to do thousands of sit-ups or spend hours in the gym to build abs. You can instead do the bare minimum of two to three ab-focused exercises for 20 to 30 minutes a week. Exercises like ...

Many guys might lazily toss in a set or two of situps at the end of their gym session, thinking that’s enough (probably more in hopes of exposing a six-pack than building strength). We don’t blame you ...

If you’ve grown bored of your basic mat routine for core workouts, incorporating resistance band ab exercises can help you switch it up and even intensify your results. The versatile, simple, and ...

Workouts can get stale fastespecially ab routines, since some people (and even trainers) just repeat the same exercises to train the core without any progression, as if it were a totally separate ...

Do you want a strong core, and maybe a chance of developing a six-pack? Adding some ab isolation exercises will help you target that area. Read on, and I’ll explain the best exercises, the best ...

I’m not one to big up an exercise I don’t believe in. I’ll happily tell you sit-ups are low on my priority list of the best abs exercises to program for my clients, with or without weights. So when I ...

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Leg lifts or leg raises work the core as well as the hips and low back, making them a great move to master for improved overall strength. While situps and crunches work the abs, they don’t recruit ...

What can I say? I love the feeling of strengthening my muscles on a Megaformer machine, working them in 50 minutes worth of planks and lunges until my core, legs, and butt are shaking. It’s the only ...

Trainer Christian Castano says most people are working their abs the wrong way. "A lot of people tend to just try to rush through their ab workouts, and do them as fast as possible for as many reps as ...