How to Perform Leg Raises Part Two
This above exercise is a good one as it’s easy enough for beginners, but guaranteed to leave even the most hardened bodybuilder with a burning mid section. Still, if it doesn’t provide enough of a challenge there are many ways to make the exercise more difficult.
One such method is to use an incline bench. These benches are slanted at a roughly 45 degree angle from the ground and include handles to hold at the top. The gym goer then uses them by hanging from the handles by their hands, and slowly lowering and straightening their legs in front of them while keeping them as perfectly straight as possible. Again you can make it holder by adding an isometric hold at the end of each set.
If this still isn’t enough of a challenge the obvious way to go one stage further is to do leg raises while entirely vertical. This will require a pull up bar, and from here the user simple hangs by their arms while raising their legs straight up in front of them in a controlled manner. If this is too difficult however, a good in between version that will place less stress on the body as a whole, is to bring the knees up to the chest while hanging rather than keeping the legs straight. This will move the target area to the central layer of abs and also make the workout quicker and easier. These are called frog kicks and are the crunches to hanging leg raises’ sit ups.
Finally, if you really want to show off you can use the leg raises in Rocky 4. Here Stallone uses a flat weights bench, and grabs hold of it with his hands so that he can rest on his shoulders with his legs pointing straight up in the air. From here he then lets them drop down in front of him and then raises them again. In this position it’s possible to perform leg raises through 180 degrees.
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