Six Pack Abs-Top Ways to Increase Crunches to Get Six Pack Abs

Whether you are doing hundreds of crunches regularly each day or the only crunch you've done in the last little while has been made by Nestle, adding twists to the standard crunch can get you one step closer to get those six pack abs that you so desperately desire.

While traditional crunches will help to develop the ab muscles, they are not the most effective movement to be doing in your ab workouts because they are not working the muscles as much as they could be.

Exercise

By adding the following elements to your abdominal crunches, you'll up the intensity to factor and be on the road to a six pack.

Add Weight

The first thing you can do is add some weight to the crunch, by holding a weighted plate either behind the head or right next to your chest.

Note whendoing so you must still really focus on contracting the ab muscles throughout the exercise to be sure you don't ' cheat ' your abs out of the work.

Do Hanging Crunches

The next way to improve the traditional ab crunch is to do them hanging from a bar. This will help really put all the stress on those ab muscles and get them working maximally.

If you want to bump the intensity up even further from there, then proceed to hold onto a weight just like the above example.

Add an Exercise Ball

The third way to get six pack abs is to add an exercise ball ab workouts into your regular. These work great because they help to reduce the stability of the body, thus fibers deep within the body will be forced to start working to crunch the body up.

Keep in mind that youstandard versions can do most of the ab crunch on top of an exercise ball, so don't limit your choices whatsoever.

Elevate The Legs

Finally, the last way to add intensity to the ab workout is to elevate the legs while performing a standard crunch.

Your goal is to get them between ninety and 180 degrees, so somewhere between 45 degrees and 90 will be ideal.

Watch when doing so though that you do not let the lower back off the floor as, as this could create lower back pain over time.

This will work your lower abs more than just the standard crunch, so you're getting more of a total workout.

So, next ab workout, consider adding these movements in so you can move one step closer to six pack abs.

Six Pack Abs-Top Ways to Increase Crunches to Get Six Pack Abs

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Plank pose
The balance on the fingers of the forearms and legs (or hands) for up to one minute, pulling the navel to the spine and maintaining direct ago.

Standing Bike
Stand with feet hip-width apart, knees slightly bent, hands clasped over his head and elbows pointed sides. Align left leg as you lift your right leg, knee bent, thigh parallel to the floor. Maintaining the knee lifted and stable, rotate the torso toward the right. Back in the beginning. Repeat on the other side for one person. At 10 representatives.

Side-winder
Stand with feet hip-width apart, knees slightly bent, hands clasped over his head and elbows pointed sides. Lift your right leg to the side, knee bent, thigh parallel to the floor. Saving knee removed, tilt the torso on the right side, resulting in the elbow and knee in relation to each other. Representative Lee 10; switch sides, repeat.

Swings
Stand with feet shoulder width of each other, knees slightly bent, hands on hips. Lift your right leg, knee bent, thigh parallel to the floor legs bent. Align the right foot, heels clicking on the word, as you meat torso backwards. Back to the tribe to cancel, and repeat five times. Switch sides and repeat.

Forward bending
Stand with feet hip-width apart, knees slightly bent, arms overhead with palms facing in. Lift the right leg, knee bent, thigh parallel to the floor. Maintaining the knee overturned and hands raised, to bring the torso and the knee in relation to each other as close as you can. Back to the top, switch sides and repeat for one person. At 10 representatives.

By Lucy Danziger, SELF Editor-in-Chief