Abdominal Routine

4/18/10

Core strength is an essential part of all workout routines.  Without sound core strength you run a higher risk of injury in your specific sport.  This routine is designed for a pure abdominal day in the gym.  This routine is designed to help blast your abdominals out of your current plateau.  Do not rest between each exercise in the giant set and only for one minute between giant sets, you want to do each giant set 3 times.  By doing abdominals in this fashion each exercise builds on the previous one.  Start by doing 25 of each exercise if you can.  Once you can do 3 sets of 25 you can start adding weight.  We are targeting your Rectus Abdominas (your six pack) in this routine.  For Obliques you'll have to check back again.  When training abdominals remember to focus on crunching your shoulders to your hips on the crunches and focus on getting your hips to rotate on the reverse crunches/knee raises.

Giant Set #1

Cable Crunches (facing away from the cable)

Cable Crunches (facing toward the cable)

Hanging Knee Lift

Giant Set #2 (On an appropriate sized fitball)

Reverse Crunches

Crunches

Plank (1 Min)

Giant Set #3 (On a bosu ball)

Crunches

Reverse Crunches

Combination Crunch (Crunches and Reverse Crunches at the same time)

Giant Set #4 (On a bench)

V-Ups

Leg Lifts

Bench Sit-ups

As always if you have any questions please feel free to contact me at todd@peakspeedandstrength.com