40 Best Ab Exercises

40 Best Ab Exercises

May 26, 2026 Off By FitnessTips

The 40 best abdominal exercises target your entire core, including your upper abs, lower abs, obliques, and the deep transverse abdominis. To build a comprehensive six-pack routine, you must balance spinal flexion, rotation, and anti-extension stability movements.
Bodyweight & Mat Exercises (No Equipment): Bicycle Crunch, Dead Bug, Standard Crunch, Reverse Crunch, Hollow Rock, Bird-Dog, Flutter Kicks, Scissor Kicks, V-Up, Toe Touch, Mountain Climbers, Bear Crawl Hold, L-Sit Hold, Alternating Heel Touch, Rolling Like a Ball.

Planks & Stabilization: Forearm Plank, Side Plank, RKC Plank, Plank Jacks, Spiderman Plank, Walking Plank, Weighted Plank.

Weighted & Gym Gym Equipment Exercises: Ab-Wheel Rollout, Barbell Rollout, Cable Woodchopper, Pallof Press, Decline Sit-Up, Decline Twist, Arms-High Partial Sit-Up, Single-Arm Farmer’s Carry, Suitcase Deadlift.

Stability Ball & Hanging Apparatus Movements: Hanging Leg Raise, Hanging Knee Tuck, Hanging Windshield Wiper, Stability Ball Crunch, Stability Ball Stir-the-Pot, Stability Ball Pike, Garhammer Raise, Captain’s Chair Knee Raise, Dragon Flag. #absworkout #abs #fatloss