Abdominal Workouts : Most Effective?

There are a lot of type of abdominal workouts you can do, but which one will burn you the most fat and getting the result your want?

I think this report and study from Biomechanics Lab at San Diego State University, led by Peter Francis, Ph.D., will save you a lot of time and effort for getting most out of your abdominal workout! Sweet!

The study compared 13 abdominal workouts, ranging from the traditional ab crunch to more complicated activities, using at-home and gym equipment. And see which abdominal workouts is the best ab workouts that really strengthen the abdominal.

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It’s a bit technical here to explain how they measure the “effectiveness” but what they do is …

They test out and rank the 13 exercises base on muscle stimulation that is measured with EMG in the rectus abdominus and the internal and external obliques.

Anyway, what you need to know or take away here is the order of the most effect abdominal workouts here:)

Here is the full list start from most effective abdominal workouts:

1. Bicycle Maneuver Exercise.
2. Captain’s Chair Exercise.
3. Crunches on Exercise Ball
4. Vertical Leg Crunch
5. Torso Track
6. Long Arm Crunch
7. Reverse Crunch
8. Crunch with Heel Push
9. Ab Roller
10. Plank or Hover Exercise.
11. Traditional Crunch
12. Exercise tubing pull
13. Ab Rocker

Yeah, interesting huh? Now, you know the most effective abdominal workouts is Bicycle Maneuver Exercise. Personally, I think this 13 exercises is still not comprehensive enough to judge which one is the best. But if you ever have problem to choose which abdominal workout to do and the option happen to be on the list, then it’s BEST or common sense for you to pick : Bicycle Maneuver Exercise.

Bicycle Maneuver Exercise Photo

photo credit : about

Well if you ever wonder how this exercise work and look like, just google it. And of course, I will try to find out more photo for those exercise to make thing easy for you to understand how you can do those abdominal workouts too. Best of luck then;)