Here You Go - One Of The Best Ab Workouts

This is one of the best ab workout routines you can do. It is also one of my favorite type of abs workouts.

It combines strength training with fat burning aerobic type exercises and abs exercises. Best of all, no gym equipment or other gimmicks are required (apart from a pull-up bar, but you can skip that part of you don’t have one handy), so you have no excuse not to give this a go.

Get ready to burn fat, build ab muscle and get stronger. Let’s roll!

Here you go: one of the best ab workouts

Some exercises discussed on other pages on this site will be repeated here. The number of reps are just for reference as I have no idea what your physical condition is. Half them if you need to, or do one of each if you’re really out of shape. Hey, you need to start somewhere.

With all exercises, remember to exhale when contracting your abs, inhale when you relax.

1. Abdominal vacuum – 10 reps

Stand with your knees slightly bent and your hands on your knees. Exhale and clear your lungs of air. Now suck in your gut and hold for 5 seconds while slowly raising your body until you’re standing almost upright. Then release your gut and breathe deeply before going down again with hands on knees, exhaling as you descend.

2. Jack knives – 10 reps

Lie flat on your back with your arms stretched out over your head. Now lift your upper body and legs at the same time and touch your legs with your hands in the air above your abdominals. This will get your heart racing and you’re off to a running start.

3. Lying leg scissors – 15 reps

With this exercise you lie on your back and position your hands by your sides, palms flat on the ground. Lift your legs off the ground about 5 or 6 inches. Keep them straight if you can, otherwise slightly bent is fine too. Keep your legs in the air, then open them wide, and close them, crossing your legs at the ankles. Alternate by first crossing your left leg over your right, then opening them wide and crossing the right over the left, etc.

Nice! Another great ab exercise that gets your lungs and legs pumping too.

4. Rope jumping – 1 minute

Let’s get up off the ground and jump over that rope. You can do more than one minute here if you’re in shape. An important part of the best ab workouts.

5. Rollback legups – 10 reps

Lie on your back, hands at your sides, palms flat on the ground. Now roll backward, lifting your legs and lower back off the ground. Pull your knees towards your chin. Give those abs a nice squeeze as you bring your knees up, then go back to the starting position.

6. Static jumps – 20 reps

Static jumps is a must in the best ab workout! Go down into the pushup position, arms about shoulder width apart. Now jump both your feet forward so that they land between your hands. Kick back again into the pushup position and repeat. Exhale when you jump your feet, inhale when you go back. Do as many reps as you can.

Huffin and puffin yet? This next one will get you there – all part of the best ab workout!

We are now going to combine four exercises into one routine – the pull-up, the burpee, the squat and the pushup.

Sound scary? Not so. It’s going to be one fluent routine but it will seriously kick your butt. Pay close attention to the sequence of events, although you can adjust it any way you please. That’s the best part of this exercise routine – you can adjust it.

7. The pullupburpeesquatpushup – 10 reps

Start below your pull-up bar. Do as follows:

  • One pull-up
  • Drop down and do two squats
  • Go down on your haunches, place your palms on the ground and kick your legs back into a pushup position
  • Do two pushups
  • Pull your legs back in, get up, grab the pull-up bar and do another one.

Rinse and repeat the routine 10 times – it’s easy to up the difficulty here. Just do more squats, pull-ups and pushups with every rep.

8. Bicycle crunches

Lie down on your back. Put your hands behind your ears (don’t lock your hands behind your neck!). Push your lower back into the ground so it doesn’t arch (you’ll have to lift your shoulders off the ground to do this), then hold that position.

Bring your legs in to your chest, then extend the right leg at about a 45 degree angle.

Now touch your right elbow to your bent left knee.Now extend the left leg and bring the right in, and touch your left elbow to your bent right knee. Keep doing this for about 15-20 reps, or however many you can do.

We’re almost at the end of our six pack ab workout – just two more exercises.

9. Rope jumping – 1 minute

Another short rope session.

10. Crunches with 5 second hold – 10 reps

Do 10 normal crunches, but hold each one for 5 seconds.

And there you go. Feel free to add more of the best abdominal exercises on this website to this routine, or adjust the reps here to turn it into one of your best ab workouts.