Why stay with old routines that don’t eliminate fat from your abs and barely even tone them up, because they’re so unendingly specific? Instead, go with some of the new routines, and ignore all that old junk.

Below you’ll find 5 easy reasons to ditch those old-fashioned ab workouts.

#5: Ab Workouts of the Future — No More Crunches!

Go with the flow and give up on the crunches — they just don’t have the relevance that they once did. Because they seemed to be the direct descendent of the sit-up, crunches had a long lifespan, but there are many more things you can be doing.

Plus, a culture of repetition built up around them that wasn’t very safe or worthwhile, meaning an entire generation of exercisers wasted a lot of time in the gym.

#4: Most Pieces of Equipment Don’t Work Well.

If you’re about to spend some big cash on some kind of infomercial advice dedicated entirely to your abs, don’t bother — all the best and most effective moves you can do with just your body.

While some people really need the physical presence of an exercise tool as a way to get them to work out, most are fine without, which is good, because they don’t really work.

#3: An Abdominal Workout That Targets Your Upper & Lower Abs Separately? Forget It.

It’s a bit of a myth that you can ‘only’ exercise your upper or lower abs, separately, in order to develop them — most of the big studies out there have shown that the abs function kind of like one big unit, and that the average person can’t isolate each part.

Just stick with the most vigorous full-ab exercises and you won’t have problems with separation between the two.

#2: Variety is the Key.

Usually people gave up on ab exercises because of the incessant focus on just a few select exercises, most of which were made up entirely of crunches and little else.

Every single study done since then has proven that sticking to these limited amounts of exercise keeps your abs from really developing as they should — variety really is important.

#1: A Fitness Ab Workout Needs to Include the Bicycle.

Until recently, it wasn’t common to see the famous ‘bicycle’ incorporated into any ab routines, because people thought it was too difficult. Check a video on youtube to see how it’s done.

But recently it has been proven that no other exercise is as fundamentally effective in working your abs. If a crunch gives you 100% activity, a bicycle gives you 278%.

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