And it's not a crunch or a leg raise...

(honestly, I'm not even sure WHAT to call it)

But it WORKS.

First, place your hands on a set of dipping bars or the handles
of the hanging chair ab station and get into the top position of
the dip with your arms locked out straight. You're going to keep
them straight through the entire movement.

Start the movement by very deliberately drawing your abs up
and in (as though sucking up your gut).

Bring your hips upwards towards the ceiling, as far as you can
go or as far as you current upper body and core strength will
allow you (even if it's just a few inches, that's fine...the higher,
the better, though).

This will cause your lower body to lift up and your upper body
to hunch forward more. Draw your lower body up as high as
you possibly can with then hold there and squeeze the abs hard
for a few seconds.



If you've watched gymnastics, the movement is very similar to
the first part of the movement when a person goes from a
locked-out dip position on the parallel bars up into a
handstand.

Rather than going all the way up into a handstand, however, you
leave your legs down and focus just on squeezing and sucking
up the abs.

The best analogy to use is imagine that a giant is pulling you
upwards by the waistband on the back of your pants/shorts
(hey, I didn't say it was a GOOD analogy, just the best one I
could think of ;).

Lower down slowly then repeat.

On every single rep, you're sucking in the abs strongly (which
helps tighten the stomach) AND you're getting a solid
contraction on the deep muscles of the core.

Strange-looking? Yes.

Effective? Also yes.

If you're interested in more abdominal exercises like this,
definitely check out my book, "The Best Abdominal Exercises
You've Never Heard Of"...77 exercises just like this and I've got
it on sale right now for 9 bucks!


Enjoy!

Nick Nilsson
The "Mad Scientist of Muscle"