Why stay with old routines that don’t eliminate fat from your abs and barely even tone them up, because they’re so unendingly specific? Instead, go with some of the new routines, and ignore all that old junk.
We’ve put together 5 simple reasons the old ab workouts are no good.
#5: Time to Abandon Crunches in Your Ab Workouts.
Most professional trainers have been leaving crunches behind over the past several years — they’re simply too limited as an exercise to really work properly, as they only target one specific part of your abs.
Plus, a culture of repetition built up around them that wasn’t very safe or worthwhile, meaning an entire generation of exercisers wasted a lot of time in the gym.
#4: Most Pieces of Equipment Don’t Work Well.
Don’t bother with using some kind of expensive piece of exercise equipment when it comes to your abs — there’s really no need to do it, because studies have shown that all the best exercises are done without tools.
While some people really need the physical presence of an exercise tool as a way to get them to work out, most are fine without, which is good, because they don’t really work.
#3: An Abdominal Workout That Targets Your Upper & Lower Abs Separately? Forget It.
It’s a bit of a myth that you can ‘only’ exercise your upper or lower abs, separately, in order to develop them — most of the big studies out there have shown that the abs function kind of like one big unit, and that the average person can’t isolate each part.
Stay consistent when it comes to your ab exercises and don’t obsess over separating your upper and lower regions.
#2: Change Up Your Workouts As Much As Possible
One of the problems with the classic ab approach was that it focused entirely on a maximum of about 3 different ab exercises — usually some form of crunch, and then, hey — another type of crunch!
Since then, we’ve discovered that switching up the exercises — especially to a higher level series — can really make a huge difference in muscle development.
#1: A Fitness Ab Workout Needs to Include the Bicycle.
Because of its intensity, it’s not easy to sell people on the famous bicycle routine. Once you see how to perform the exercise (check Youtube), you’ll probably understand why.
And yet there’s really nothing like it — above all else, this one amazing exercise, which increases your workout by 178%, is what separates old boring crunches from new, great routines.
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