Thread: The Best Advanced Ab Exercises?

decline weighted crunches, swiss ball cable crunches, plank holds, cable rope crunches

weighted incline crunches.

weighted inclines? doesnt that just make you sit up?

when talking about a bench press I would call it a decline press, but when talking about abs I call it an incline crunch cause you're on an incline board.

never heard of anyone calling it that...but i understand where your coming from...its still a decline bench though because the feet go at the top of the incline.

Stability Ball reverse crunches.

Decline crunches, hold a 25lb plate behind your head, not in front your chest like I see most people do, 4x25 you’ll fell it for a whole week.

bicycles are very also very good.

here is one of many that I found calling it an "ab incline board":

http://store.titlesports.com/incline-ab-board.html

I've always said incline as well...

decline's are good but if your not careful, you can kill your lower back. Top 2 are, bicycle maneuver and the captain's chair. Both of these does not stree out your lower back the way decline or incline situps do.

how would you kill your back?

everytime I do incline(decline) situps, there is a tremedous amount of pressure applied to the lower back. J'BO, I can not explain exactly why though. I might be the only person that has problems with it.

do you use weight flexster? also, for your reps are you flattening out your back all the way on the completion of a rep? If so, I don't recommend doing that, it's just as effective and probably less stress on the lower back not to allow your shoulders to touch the bench during a set...

was using 25 then 35 pound weight on chest. My back is straight while doind the exercise, but I only went down slightly past parallel to the ground.