Did you know you don’t have to only do those traditional “ab” exercises that only target your midsection to see results in your midsection?!
If fact, there are full body ab exercises that you should incorporate in order to help build core strength and stability while building overall strength.
Here are the 3 best “full body ab” exercises that will help get your abs strong:
1) Thrusters
Simply put, a thruster is moving weight through a squat and then immediately into an overhead press. This movement obviously requires those large muscle groups like quads, glutes, and shoulders.
But it’s not only these large muscles working hard. It also requires ABS!
Your midsection is working hard in a thruster to stabilize throughout the movement, helping to keep your chest upright as you squat, and propelling the weight upward as you look to explode out of the bottom of your squat and push the weight overhead.
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2) Deadlifts
Picking up a dead weight off the ground. We do this all throughout our everyday lives, which is why deadlifts are great to incorporate in your training.
In order to perform this exercise safely, we need to engage our core in order to protect our low back from doing all the work. Brace your abs before you even reach down to lift the bar. This will help to keep your back flat and not rounded as you move the weight from the ground to your waist.
Your abs are working hard to maintain that neutral spine position throughout this movement as you lift and lower all that weight.
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3) Pull-ups
Pull-ups are such a great way to improve on upper body strength. What you might not realize, however, is how hard your abs are working to help get your chin over that bar.
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Your abs have to help significantly to initiate the movement in a pull-up. If you ever watched someone who is very efficient in a pull-up, their body is in a “hollow body” position. This means that their core is so engaged that their low back does NOT have an exaggerated arch but rather is neutral.
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Give these movements a shot and see how your abs continue to transform.
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