TOP 5 EXERCISES TO WORK YOUR ABS TO FAILURE

Ready to really carve your abs? Skip the ab crunches and challenge your core with these extremely tough ab moves.

So you've been at the gym, doing crunches like it's high school gymnasium session all over again, and the outcome have been—well, disappointing. Sound familiar? That may be because when it comes to ab exercises, crunches are pretty basic, dull stuff. But you're not a beginner, and your workouts should never be boring.

The solution? It's time to push your abs to exhaustion—and fight the flab—with fresh ab exercises that are anything but routine. And it's not just a six-pack you'll get: Maintain strong abs, and you’ll help prevent back tenderness, maximize your speed, and increase your flexibility.

But no matter how difficult these exercises get, always bear in mind the golden rule of ab workouts: QUALITY OVER QUANTITY. Instead of tearing through the motions, slow down and focus on getting the most out of each rep. With slow, powerful effort, you'll be building up to 30-secs sets of quality moves and admiring those washboard abs you've forever wanted in no time.

EXERCISE 1: SPIDERMAN PLANKS