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http://www.builtlean.com - I show you 5 exercises for abs that progress from easy to challenging. These exercises for abs are designed to strengthen your core safely and efficiently. See if you can do them! For more detail, check out the full article on BuiltLean.com: http://bit.ly/kM2XUy. Transcript: Mark: Hey it's Mark Perry from BuiltLean.com and I want to show you an abs progression. And what do I mean by progression? You know, there are many ways to make your workouts harder, and to improve your body, and in my opinion progression is the most important variable in an exercise program. And so, you can make your workouts harder by decreasing the rest between exercises you know, by lifting more weight, but one way is to actually choose harder and harder exercises and so I may start out with a beginner abs exercise, and moves towards a more intermediate-advanced exercise. So this is something you can follow to improve your body so first is, a crunch with your feet in the air. let me show you what I mean. And so, the first is, you got your feet in the air, your hands are behind you, arms are straight out, and you crunch up, breathing out as you go up of course. In and Out. So that's actually the first and easiest abs exercise. The second one is one leg bicycles, let me show you what I mean here. So, once you can do crunches really easily, then you're gonna do one leg at a time bicycles. And so you are not keeping your feet off the ground they are actually coming on the ground and then coming off the ground and then you are putting them down again. And finally you are gonna do what are called normal bicycles. Where your feet are completely off the ground and you alternate one after the other. But notice how I'm not taking my legs really high up. I'm keeping them nice and low, which engages your lower abs. Fourth, are reverse abs. These are a little harder because you have to keep both your legs up at the same time, as opposed to bicycles where you were doing one at a time. And so, you're gonna keep your arms at your sides, toes pointed out, you're gonna crunch in, and out. Crunch in, keeping your head back, because these are harder because, again, you're gonna have the weight of your legs that you have to hold up. Then finally, there are you know they were called V-ups, and this is an exercise I like to do, I actually use it with uh, you know, what I hold in my feet, so let me show what I mean. V-ups, and this is on of the hardest ones or harder ones is you start out with your legs totally straight up, and you crunch up. [exhales] Just like this. And they are pretty hard, I mean they're a lot harder abs exercise I'm gonna show you, for sure, but I think if you follow that progression you know, you'll be able to improve the strength of your abs, You know, really effectively, and I hope that was helpful for you, Feel free to leave some comments.