My fitness colleague Scott Tousignant and his wife Angie put together a great video demonstrating some of the most effective exercises to create amazing abs. Trust me, if you want great abs, sit-ups are not the answer. What you need to do is work the transverse abdominis muscle along with the internal and external abdominal oblique muscles. These muscles act like a girdle and tighten up your midsection. To work these muscles you need to do twisting and core stability movements.

Here’s the great video demonstrating Scott & Angie’s top 10 abdominal exercises…

Remember that in order to achieve 6 pack abs you will need a solid nutrition program combined with resistance, interval, and cardio training. Not to mention a powerful ‘Unstoppable’ Mindset to drive you to fat loss success.

Scott and Angie do less than 10 minutes of abs training each week. There’s no need for hundreds or thousands of reps. Increase the resistance and only do 10 reps for each exercise. Your abs will get worked with other exercises such as squats and anything else that requires stability such as renegade rows.

Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC is the creator of Unstoppable Fat Loss, “What separates the fat loss success stories from the people who continue to struggle to achieve their dream body”

One of the best ab exercises for delveloping a flat stomach and 6-pack abs is sprinting. Just think of the way an athlete looks and trains. If you ask any athlete what they do to work their stomach and it is doubtful that they will tell you crunches. On the other hand, sprinting is a requirement in just about every athlete’s training.

Here are a couple of reasons of why sprints work so well for developing the abs and why they may be the king of all abs exercises. There is no exercise that generates more force in the abdominal musculature than sprinting – and total degree of muscle activation and length of time the muscle is under tension plays a big role in muscular development.

If you think about a sprinter running down a track at full speed, their arms and legs pumping, it is the enormous amount of force and pressure generated by the contraction of the abs that allows the body to stay upright and stabilize. Even one 10 second run can induce a tremendous amount of muscular stimulus on the abs.

Now, for an abs exercise to be considered the best, it also needs to accelerate fat loss. Almost all traditional abs exercises, like crunches, are poor fat burners. You can do them all day long and you still won’t be burning fat. Sprinting gets your body in an anaerobic state which causes a metabolic ripple, spiking your fat burning for hours and even days after the workout.

So not only are sprints on of the most effective exercises for developing strong and muscular abs, they teach your body to be an effective fat burner.

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