The 5 Best “Ab” Exercises (YOU’RE NOT DOING!)

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Put your core at the core of every exercise here…

Ab exercises don’t always have to involve the abs directly in order to be effective. In fact, if you really want to work your abs and get them to look their best you better be doing more than just direct ab exercise and workouts. In this video, I show you how to make 5 simple tweaks to common exercises that you use when training your upper body that will allow you to increase your ab training volume. These small changes will lead to major improvements in your core and abs in no time.

Indirect ab exercises can be performed by changing the basic exercises you do in the rest of your workouts. For instance, a traditional incline dumbbell bench press can become a core crusher by simply doing it with one dumbbell at a time. By using a heavy weight on one side of the body, you force the opposite side of your core, obliques, etc to work hard to prevent you from tipping to the side of the dumbbell.

This same concept can be applied to back training as well. I show you how both the one arm row and v-grip pullups can be modified just slightly to make sure the abs are fired up throughout the exercise. The best part is that you don’t have to compromise the effectiveness of the originally intended exercise to make it an ab exercise as well. By simply altering the positioning of your feet, hands, or both you can make a major impact on your abs.

We call this concept, putting your core at the core of every exercise. It’s paramount to training like an athlete. Athletes are not afforded the opportunity to function in controlled environments. When they move during a sport or game they are often moving in three dimensions and unpredictable ways. If you only train your abs with exercises that move you in one plane at a time, you’ll never be prepared enough to handle the real world stresses that will be placed upon them.

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Jeff deserves a full body statue of himself. This guy helps a lot of people and there is too many guys that do not respect his effort, but i do.
Thanks again Jeff!

cmhanft
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I have seen a lot of different programs from Six Pack Shortcuts to PumpChasers and Matt Ogus and I can honestly say that Jeff and Athlean-X are the best in my humble opinion. Sure the other guys have great physiques and they are built very well, but they do a lot of exercises that either aren't safe, or they have pretty bad form in their movements. Not only is the info Jeff provides useful, but he gives you safe alternatives to doing moves like leg extensions and chest flys. Not everybody just wants to get huge, but what Jeff is doing is training you to be a well rounded athletic type which is much more functional. Thinking of buying his program soon.

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Great videos thank you! I'm 45 and recently divorced going through a mid life crisis and since I have been watching these videos I have gotten into great shape thank you! I am finally getting to be me! Not the person that everyone else wanted me to be!

tonyrico
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What I love of these is that they are also compound workouts, or at least adding on to the workout as another muscle group to the compound workout. Allows you to save time at the gym because you can workout whatever you needed to do for that day, as well as your abs. Genius.

austinbryan
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Love It, I Am Like A Sponge, Just Soaking In All That You Are Teaching, Thank You Jeff For The Knowledge That You Give To Those Searching For The Proper Techniques Of Working Out And Staying Healthy

marklelievre
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I have always struggled with going to the gym because I simply don't know what to do when I get there. I'm not some big tough guy but I'm not a giant fat guy either or a little shrimp, I'm just not very tonned or strong. These videos are helping me understand how to actually train my body and give me a much better idea of what I need to actually be doing. When a fitness training book says "do # pull ups" it just doesn't mean much to me because I don't really get it. This guy actually explains with specifics what each kind of pull up can be and what they do etc. He is incredibly helpful

XuntosIzor
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Can't wait to integrate these into my workouts

tedsommer
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This is one of the best videos on core I've seen on YouTube!! Great info and thank you for sharing.

marcussmith
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Great Stuff Man!
Several times a week when I check into your YouTube page I am reminded that you have forgotten more about working out than I may ever know...
That is saying something, because I have been personally training people for over 15 years!
Keep up the good work!

justinwynn
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This video proved that you're better than Mike Chang. Thank you.

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this channel is pure gold! thanks JEFF!

guillesegovia
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I love getting tips by an actual pro athlete as opposed to a body builder, balanced strength for real world use is the right way to train, good job bro.

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I finally have a decent paying job, so in due time I will officially hop onto AthleanX. So grateful for these videos you put up

viet
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Small little tweaks and huge you Chief

amitavahalder
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hi Jeff. first of all congratulations for this video.
Can you make a video to show us how to fix muscle embalances?? (chest imbalances mainly)

ty bro

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ATHLEAN-X & Guru Mann are best channels for fitness.

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This is the best bodybulding channel ever!

moneytron
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Solid video man! Definitely small things people over look that have so much effect. 

thachtenstein
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Best (in your opinion) form and warmup for the 3 major exercises .. Deadlift, Benchpress and Squats, please? (in one video)

Thanks for the great videos and tips!

seksch
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I think I will give this program a spin. For the simple fact it makes sense what Jeff says. Hopefully by this week I will start this program.

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