{"id":9219,"date":"2011-02-16T10:39:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T16:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=9219"},"modified":"2011-02-16T10:41:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T16:41:16","slug":"ab-workouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2011\/02\/16\/ab-workouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkeys have strong abs and YOU CAN TOO! Just hang out…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>During my recent trip to Costa Rica I got to go super zen and view nature from an un-American viewpoint.\u00a0 One thing you have to see when you are in Costa rica is the many packs of monkeys that inhabit the region.\u00a0 Swinging to and fro, throwing poo at each other, and occasionally getting in to your car and stealing whatever they can get their hands on is a common occurrence.\u00a0 Did you ever think about how they are able to swing all over the damn place all day and not get tired?\u00a0 Of course it is easy to say, \u201cWell, they are monkeys.\u201d but they don\u2019t just pop out of their mom and start gathering bananas. (Can\u2019t officially verify that.)<\/p>\n

After oooooing, awwwwing, and then chasing those damn monkeys for stealing my Alanis Morissette cd\u2019s, I finally decided in order to have a chance at getting even, I must \u201ctrain like a monkey\u201d.\u00a0 So here is an excellent exercise to get a full ab workout and all you have to do is \u201chang out\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hanging Knee Raises
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\nThis is an extremely tough exercise that lets you work out your lower abs and your serratus muscles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. Grab a pull up bar, palms out, with your arms should width apart<\/p>\n

2. Slowly lift your knees towards your chest making sure you are squeezing your abs the whole time – keep your feet off the ground for the whole exercise.<\/p>\n

3. Rinse and repeat to exhaustion<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it.\u00a0 A ridiculous ab workout.\u00a0 If you really want to target those serratus muscles, alternate lifting your legs to each side.<\/p>\n

NOTE: \u00a0It is almost a given that your wrists will give out before you abs will.\u00a0 In that case hang some straps from the pull up bar and slip your arms through just past your elbow.\u00a0 After your arms are through, the straps can help you work out your abs to exhaustion.<\/p>\n

Got a good ab exercise you want to let the world know about?\u00a0 Anyone see my Alanis cd\u2019s?\u00a0 Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n

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During my recent trip to Costa Rica I got to go super zen and view nature from an un-American viewpoint.\u00a0 One thing you have to see when you are in Costa rica is the many packs of monkeys that inhabit the region.\u00a0 Swinging to and fro, throwing poo at each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1525,1424,20,23,1390,225,1526,93,21,1403],"class_list":["post-9219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ab-exercises","tag-ab-workouts","tag-amy-mac","tag-fit-life","tag-fit-tips","tag-fitness-tips","tag-hanging-knee-raises","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-withamymac","tag-working-out-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}