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Want the Best Stomach Exercises? Get great abs with no crunches

So if your bored of crunches or looking like an idiot in the ab rocker here are 3 of the best stomach exercises you can do for flat sexy abs that don’t require you to round your back and will work the whole of your abdominal region.

Doing stomach exercises where your back is straight is not only going to work your abs harder but will protect your back from unnecessary stress and potential injury.

You can ensure that your entire abdominal area gets a fabulous workout and you optimize your ability to burn extra fat, by employing a circuit method when you do these stomach exercises. My strategy is to couple these best stomach exercises with a strenuous interval workout, allowing me to continue to burn fat because my metabolism remains at a raised level.

The ab wheel rollout is the first exercise to try. You can substitute a barbell with a 5 kilo round weight on each side if you can’t find an actual ab wheel to use at home or at your gym. While kneeling, place your hands on the barbell or wheel, your shoulders directly over your hands, and your torso in an upright position.

Roll the wheel or barbell forward, slowly, allowing your body to follow the motion and fall forward as you roll the weight away from you. Get your body as close to the floor as possible without arching the back, and remain in this position for several counts. Reverse this action, bringing the barbell or wheel back to it’s original position, and bringing your body back to the position that you began the exercise in. Performing 10 repetitions is ideal if you can manage this.

Stability ball jack-knives will be your next exercise that you will perform directly after finishing the ab wheel rollout. As you become more comfortable with this exercise, you can try different variations of it, this is an excellent exercise for the abs.

You will want to use a bench when you are first starting out with your body in plank position, hands on the bench, shins on the stability ball. You will want to control the rolling of the ball in and out by bringing your knees to your chest or as far as you can while contracting your abs.

As you get stronger you can progress to having hands on the floor and then adding a press up in between each knee tuck. For an even more intense workout, trainers can place just one shin on the ball, and as that knee contracts, the other can extend, or you may prefer to bring your knees in at a diagonal instead of directly forward to the chest.

Both very challenging but look super cool!

Shoot for 10 to 20 reps no matter which variation you choose to attempt

So as you drag yourself off the stability ball its time to finish with a mountain climber with rotation. The difference being with this exercise is that where you normally bring your knees to your chest in a standard mountain climber you bring your knee to the opposite elbow. This rotation element will place a little more emphasis on the oblique muscles. With this exercise, supported abs and flat hips are crucial for the best results.

10 reps on each side for this exercise at a minimum.

You are going to increase the health of your back and really get a great fat burning routine out of these exercises which are definitely the best stomach exercises for getting flat, sexy abs.

Time to say goodbye to crunches!!

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