The Best Abdominal Exercises Youve Never Heard Of
77 Unique Ab-Blasting Exercises
By Nick Nilsson
Prior to beginning any exercise program, you must consult with your physician. You must also consult your physician before increasing the intensity of your training. The information in this book is intended for healthy individuals. Any application of the recommended material in this book is at the sole risk of the reader, and at the readers discretion. Responsibility of any injuries or other adverse effects resulting from the application of any of the information provided within this book is expressly disclaimed.
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Copyright 2011 by Nick Nilsson
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eISBN: 9781936910083
Table Of Contents
Introduction:
In this book you will find 77 fantastic exercises for the abdominals - exercises youve probably never seen or even imagined! Here is a rundown of the sections youll find in this book:
How To Do It:
Read through the exercise descriptions thoroughly so you know exactly what the exercise is going to accomplish, how to execute it properly and safely and how to best incorporate the exercise into your workouts.
Common Errors:
The Common Errors section of each exercise will let you know some of the typical ways the exercise is done improperly so that you can take the steps to correct yourself before they even happen!
Tricks:
Finally, be sure to read through all the Tricks for each exercise. The tips will help you maximize these already amazing exercises.
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Know Your Training Level
The exercises in this book are labeled according to difficulty level. Some exercises are fine for all training levels while some are more appropriate for intermediate or more advanced trainers. Even if youre an advanced trainer, you will find ALL the exercises challenging and unique!
Here are the labels and levels of difficulty:
Please Note:
Any exercise program contains an element of risk. Be aware that the exercises in the book are not familiar to you and, even though every attempt has been made to ensure safe instruction, how and if you decide to execute the exercises is ultimately your responsibility.
Upper Abdominals
This exercise puts incredible tension on the abs at the bottom of the movement. All that you need is a high pulley and bar, just like youre doing a pulldown, the only difference being you push the bar all the way to the floor.
Similar to the regular cable crunch, but rather than holding the bar behind your head, you hold the bar at arms-length in front of you. This puts great tension on the abs by forcing them to not only do the crunch, but to stabilize and support the weight held at arms length in front of you.
This simple variation of the floor crunch allows you to put all the tension of that exercise on the extreme upper abs. All it takes is a simple change in body position!
Using only a regular flat bench, you can hit the abs in their stretched range of motion. This is the range of motion that ab exercises done flat on the floor (such as regular crunches) miss. The difference is like going from working your biceps with half range curls to doing full range curls.
Want to build your lockout bench press strength? The abs play a large but little known role in the last few inches of the bench press. With stronger abs, target-trained through this exercise, you will be able to immediately lock out more weight.
Looking to set your abs on fire at the end of a workout? This simple rolling technique targets the peak contraction of the abdominals by powerfully using momentum. The position you finish in is the maximum possible contracted position your abdominals can get into!
Using your training partner as resistance can result in incredible ab workouts. See how you can easily focus on the negative phase of the crunch movement by having someone else give you a hand. Youve never felt a burn like this!
The strength curve of the leg curl machine can easily be adapted to the crunch. By using this machine for crunches, you can use the weight stack to increase the resistance on the abs. You can also use it to perform negative training for the abs all by yourself!
This exercise puts tremendous tension on the abs by utilizing an extremely short range of motion coupled with heavy resistance in the very most contracted position the abs can be in.