Easy abs workout

No equipment ab exercises

When it comes to the ultimate ab exercises, crunches top the list. From runners to yogis to Crossfit buffs, athletes favor this simple, no equipment move to strengthen the abdominals, obliques and hips.

1. Basic Crunch

Basic crunches are traditional exercise meant to strengthen your abdominals. Among the many abdominal moves to strengthen your core, crunches might be the most familiar and yet the most understood.

2. Modified Bicycle Crunch

Bicycle crunch is a superb core workout, and brings all kinds of abdominal muscles into play, including the tricky to target obliques (side ab muscles). Along with your abs, your thighs and glutes are engaged in the movement. 

3. Scissors Crunch

This variation of the crunch exercise strengthens the lower abs, upper abs, the external obliques as well as the lower back muscles in addition to the abs.

4. Reverse Crunch

This variation of reverse crunches borrows the pulsating moments bare with the bridge pose. The trick is to keep your upper body still as your core and lower body do the work. In this reverse crunch variation, the spine is also lengthened and strengthened.