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Lie on your back with your hands underneath your tailbone and have your legs straight upward. Pull your navel inward and flex your inner core as you lift your hips just a few inches off the floor. Finally, lower your hips back to the starting position. Link to this post!

Hanging Leg Raise

Hang with a wide, overhand grip off a pull-up bar. Keep your back straight as you pull your legs up towards your chest, pause and straighten your legs back to the starting position.Keep your knees straight throughout the exercise. Link to this post!

Hanging Knee Raise

Hang with a wide, overhand grip on a pull-up bar. Keep your back straight as you pull your knees up towards your chest, pause and straighten your legs back to the starting position. Link to this post!

Figure of 8 Crunch

Place a medicine ball (or basketball, football etc) between your knees whilst you lie down on the floor. Keep your arms down either side of your body. Move your knees in a circle to one side, then round the other way to the opposite side, creating an imaginary figure of 8. Link to this post!

Ab Crunch

Lie on your back with your knees and hips bent to about 90 degrees, keeps your arms crossed. Raise your upper body off the floor by crunching your ribcage towards your pelvis. Finally, lower yourself to the starting position. Link to this post!

Barbell Rollout

Place minor weights onto a barbell, leaving the weights slightly loose. Get down on your knees and grab the barbell on the floor in front of you. Roll the barbell away from you as you straighten your core out, keeping your back straight. Don’t extend too far, just enough so you feel the stretch in your abs, then roll back to the starting position. Link to this post!

Lying Cable Row

Attach a bar to a low cable machine. Grab the bar with an overhand grip. Raise the bar towards your chin, pause and return to the starting position. Link to this post!

Twisting Shoulder Press

Stand holding a pair of dumbbells at the sides of your shoulders, palms turned towards each other and feet shoulder width apart. Lift both dumbbells straight over your shoulder as you twist your torso round to the right. Lower the weights as you twist back to the starting position, then repeat twisting to your left. Link to this post!

Snatch Grip Shrug

Grab a barbell with an overhand grip that’s as wide as comfortably possible. Set your feet shoulder width apart and hold the bar down at arm’s length in front of you. Lean forwards slightly at the hips so the bar is a couple of centimetres in front of your thighs. Shrug your shoulders as high as you can. Pause, then slowly lower the barbell. Link to this post!

Side Lat Raise

Grab a pair of dumbbells and hold in front of your thighs. Bend over at the hips slightly with your knees bent. keep your elbows slightly bent, raise your upper arms to the sides until your elbows are at about shoulder height. Lower back to the starting position. Link to this post!