What are some good ab/oblique exercises?
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whenever you involve raising your legs during ab workouts, you target most of the lower and middle part of your abs. try laying down on a decline bench, with your head being on top and legs below. now keep your legs straight and lift it up and push up and twist when you reach 90 degrees. reap eat this until you cant breath any longer. i guarantee this will work.
I suggest 5 exerscises for abs.
I suggest hanging leg raises, kick out crunches, decline rope crunches, and upward crunches.
Hanging leg raises- hang on a chin up bar, lift you legs, knees bent or straight, knees toward chest, exhaling powerfully, then lower your legs, that's one rep, try to get 25 and do 3 sets. DO NOT SWING LEGS
Kick out Crunches- Take a weight, plate dumbbells, whatever you can hold comfortable with both your palms facing in. I suggest to start around 25 pound, go down if necessary. Lay on a flat bench, legs slightly lifted, weight above the top of your head. Pull your knees toward your chest, bending as you go up, Crunch your upper body toward your legs, and swing your weight over your knees at the top of the motion. exhaling powerfully. Go back to start, that's one rep. Try 25, 3 sets.
Decline rope crunches- Now, these take alot of setting up, but they're brutal and worth it. Take a rope grip, and attach it to the bottom part of a cable crossover machine, then drag a decline bench to about a foot or 2 from the cable your rope is attached to. Get on the decline bench, hook your legs, and have a partner hand the rope to you, go back down as far as you can, then crunch forward, exhaling powerfully. Try 10 reps with 2 plates on the crossover weight to begin with, try 3 sets. Your lower back might have to get used to the angle and weight. If it hurts, it's not injured, just sore.
Upward crunches- More of a toning exercise for the upper abs. Lay on the floor, and put your feet, knees bent, on a bench in front of you. hold a 10 pound weight behind your head, pull your whole torso UP toward the ceiling, exhaling powerfully. That's one rep, go until you can do another, then do another set.
There's one other way, too, you run, medium speed, on a treadmill, abs as tight as you can keep them. It's great.
Hope this all works, if you need more instructions and other exercises, bodybuilding.com is a great resource.
Sit ups
http://youtube.com/watch?v=edufqkwsve8... that video really helps
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