How to build six pack abs with a 10-minute workout

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Built With Science, in an article titled The Best Ab Workout For Six Pack Abson his website. Ethier starts his ab workout with a bottom-up movement—the reverse crunch. He then follows it up with high-to-low woodchoppers on the cable machine or bicycle crunches for obliques.

Up next is a weighted crunch and the finisher is called serratus jabs which are basically upward punches using a resistance band or a cable. That’s all he does—four exercises. Baroda-based fitness trainer Shalak Nelson has maintained a well-sculpted core for a decade now.

While the selection of his exercises are different to Ethier’s, the selection mirrors the same science. He adds a hanging leg raise, a weighted oblique crunch, a reverse plank and his advanced move would be Bruce Lee’s favourite ab exercise, the dragon fly. “I can get a good workout with just six to eight reps of each of these if I do them to perfection.

That is under ten minutes," says the 30-year-old. It’s amazing how every expert and website will suggest a different set of exercises promising the same results. Bodybuilding.com, one of the most popular fitness websites, also has a seven-exercise workout to be done for 20-30 reps.

Their suggestion is to create a separate workout for every group of core muscles. And then mix it up. Which is a great suggestion to keep things fresh when you get on the floor.

They have four groups: Upper abs and external obliques, lower abs and internal obliques, isometric holds, and back extensions. Their sets do not involve too many advanced moves. From simple knee tucks and mountain climbers with sliders for extra drag resistance with the floor, to overhead med-ball slams for explosive rotational power, the one thing that stands out is their lower ab