Great Advanced Ab Exercises for a Strong Core

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If you’re bored of your usual planks and crunches, it’s probably time to move on to a more difficult ab workout. These advanced ab exercises could be a great challenge for your next session.

Side Plank with Hip Drops

Despite the fact that it may look easy, side planks are an advanced ab exercise that you can make even more challenging if you do it on the forearm. This move is great for improving balance and mobility and adding a hip drop makes it a very effective core exercise.

Ball Knee Tucks

There isn’t a better way to get a killer core workout, engage your abdominal muscles, and challenge your balance than using a stability ball. Ball knee tucks are a great way to start improving your strength and stabilizing your body.

Plank with Leg Lift

Everyone is familiar with the basic plank move, but for advanced athletes this exercise probably isn’t very challenging. In that case, planks with a leg lift is a great way to take your ab workout to the next level and engage your core.

Ball Pikes

If you thought that knee tucks with stability ball were hard, prepare to do something even more challenging. Ball pikes are very similar, but you need to lift the hips even higher which requires a bit more strength and stability.