Hanging Knee Raises

If you wish to strengthen your abdominal muscles, go for the hanging knee raise exercise. The hanging knee raise is an exercise which is aimed at strengthening the lower abdomen muscles. Although you can literally hang from anything to perform this exercise, the most popular method is to hang down from a pull up bar. All you require to do is to hang from a horizontally placed bar, keeping your arms parallel to the body length. Your legs should be kept perfectly straight. This exercise is highly recommended if you want a flat belly. The lower abdominal muscle group strengthens to increase your body’s spinal stability. If properly executed, the exercise can help you achieve maximum muscle contraction and faster belly fat reduction. 

 

Hanging knee exercise has numerous variants, the straight leg variant being the most effective, since it involves both the lower and upper portions of the abdominals, ensuring maximum muscle stress. The exercise produces a large amount of tension, resulting in greater strength and imparting proper definition to your body. Even the free hanging pose of the body strengthens the spinal cord, which increases the backbone strength further and increases stability. Though this exercise is difficult to execute, it is advantageous as no complicated equipments are required to perform it. You don’t have to splurge money in a gym in order to build up your abdominal muscles. Instead, just a commonly available horizontal bar would serve the purpose right.