John Alvino

The Best Ab Exercise You Never Heard Of!

In order to achieve the sought after six pack, you must use highly effective ab exercises to sculpt the abdominal musculature.  But carving your stomach muscles is only half the story.  To unveil your newly cut up stomach, you must also lose the layer of stomach fat that is laying on top of your abs.  In this article, I will show you an unknown exercise that accomplishes both.

In order to achieve the sought after six pack, you must use highly effective ab exercises to sculpt the abdominal musculature.  But carving your stomach muscles is only half the story.

To unveil your newly cut up stomach, you must also lose the layer of stomach fat that is laying on top of your abs.  The good news is that some exercises accomplish both (ab sculpting and fat loss).  The exercise that I'm going to show you in this article is one of these great and highly effective movements.

Typically, the majority of ab exercises work your abs in an isolated fashion.  Although these exercises will train your abs, they do not cause a fat burning effect.  The exercises that I prescribe are designed to decrease belly fat while simultaneously strengthening and sculpting your ab muscles. 

I will now show you one great exercise that provides the powerful dual effect mentioned above.  The name of the exercise is the Parallel Bar Knee Raise.  This is an advanced exercise and does require quite a bit of upper body strength to perform properly.  Here is how you should perform it:

Parallel Bar Knee Raise- Support your body on parallel dip bars while keeping your elbows locked .  Maintain an upright position with your torso.  Flex hips until your thighs are parallel to the ground.  This is the starting position.  From the starting position, bring your knees up as close as possible to your chest and contract your abs.  Return to starting position and repeat.

As I have mentioned, this is an advanced exercise.  If you are unable to perform this exercise properly, I recommend starting off with less difficult exercises in order to achieve a solid base of required strength.

One  great exercise that helps prepare you for the Parallel Bar Knee Raise is the Reverse Crunch.  Begin in a horizontal position and progress towards vertical as your abs get stronger.  In just a short amount of time, you will be moving on to more advanced movements.

Work hard, expect results and go get your six pack abs!

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