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Best Ab Exercises Charts

July 13, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Some redditors took the data from the Inside the Muscles – Best Ab Exercises article and put it into some useful charts.

The Winners by mean and peak activity for each muscle part

Rectus Abdominis
Mean:  Chin Up, Hanging Leg Raise, Ab Wheel
Peak:   Chin Up, Hanging Leg Raise, Swiss Ball Crunch
Internal Oblique
Mean:  Ab Wheel from Feet, Ab Wheel from Knees, Bodysaw
Peak:   Ab Wheel from Feet, Bodysaw, Tornado Ball Slam
External Oblique
Mean:  Ab Wheel from Feet, Hanging Leg Raise, Bodysaw
Peak:   Turkish Get Up, Hanging Leg Raise, Bodysaw
Erector Spinae
Mean:  Kneeling Cable Lift, Landmine, Reverse Hyper
Peak:   Kneeling Cable Lift, Tornado Ball Slam, Lumbar Extension

Sorted by activation (click to enlarge)

Best Abs Exercises sorted by Muscle Activation
Best Abs Exercises sorted by Muscle Activatio

As a ratio of average (click to enlarge)

Best Abs Exercises sorted by Ratio of Averages
Best Abs Exercises sorted by Ratio of Average

Actual value (click to enlarge)

Best Abs Exercises sorted by Acutal Value
Best Abs Exercises sorted by Actual Value

Filed Under: abs, exercises, muscles

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Comments

  1. madknight says

    July 28, 2011 at 02:54

    Really interesting. It's too bad gymnastic exercises like planche, front lever, back lever, flag, L-sit, freestanding ring handstands, etc weren't up there. I'd like to see how they compare to the exercises used here.

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