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I'm not sure how is it called correctly. When you're on a chinup bar and lift your straight legs up to your face. An old o-lifting soviet exercise. I used to do it when I wasn't lazy about training abs. 3x10 no swinging. I guess it's the hardest exercise for core. What do you think of them? They say leg raises work your hip flexors, but is it a bad thing? I feel it in my abs heavily anyway.
I'm thinking it the only ab exercise actually worth doing.
I think their call'd the hang pikes or something.
Anyway you hang from the bar and raise your ankles to the bar while staying as vertical as possible, no swing.
Probably the best abb exercise.
Add windshield wipers and ab roll outs and thats all the direct work you need for abbz
It's a very good exercise. One of my favorites, but I wouldn't say it's the only one worth doing or the hardest.
Harder:
Front lever raises
Human flag
Standing ab wheel roll-outs
Also good:
Decline sit-ups (weight held behind head)
The nice thing about the decline sit-ups is that it doesn't tax your shoulder girdle muscles like the other exercises and it won't affect your other upper body movements.
Those are stuff you have to train for a while. And that aint bad, everybody needs goals.
Decline situps w/ weights are good, and somehow I feel them more in the core than in the hipflexors that get sore from regular situps.
The shoulder problem is only relevant if you dont keep your shoulders thight and the blades pulled back (the beach posture works in almost every thing). By letting your shoulders relax and rise too far you'll be asking for trouble.
It's a very good exercise. One of my favorites, but I wouldn't say it's the only one worth doing or the hardest.
Harder:
Front lever raises
Human flag
Standing ab wheel roll-outs
Also good:
Decline sit-ups (weight held behind head)
The nice thing about the decline sit-ups is that it doesn't tax your shoulder girdle muscles like the other exercises and it won't affect your other upper body movements.
I can do stand ab wheel roll out no problems, but could god the human flag and front lever raises look fucking HARD.
Also, to the OP- they aren't that hard. I find my grip going before my core does (girly hands)
They say leg raises work your hip flexors, but is it a bad thing? I feel it in my abs heavily anyway.
In my opinion its only bad if it causes your hip flexors to become excessively tight (most people are already tight from sitting down too much), which can cause some back problems. So as long as you stretch it'll be more than fine.
