The Best Ab Workout for Endomorphs

Being an Endomorph is a body type that many people have. With this body type, it usually refers to someone who has a rounded physique and is the opposite of someone who is considered an Ectomorph, those who have a lean and fast metabolism. An Endomorph has a slower metabolic rate and has the ability to gain weight easily, whether that weight is muscle or fat. Endomorphs also tend to have a wider waist/hip to shoulder/upper body ratio. Many people who have the “hour glass” figure are usually endomorphs.

How To Work Your Core As An Endomorph

In order for someone to have the best ab/core workout being an endomorph, they should want to focus on two main areas of the workout. The first is to make sure that the abdominal exercises being performed, and this goes for all body types, are targeting the abs directly and in every angle possible. This is to ensure that as you are performing ab exercises, you are creating a stimulus to the entire abdominal and oblique region, and not just performing ab exercises that are putting more strain on your back vs your core.

The next biggest thing for Endomorphs to focus on for training abs is to make sure that your workout is performed at the highest intensity for the longest period of time. This is to help speed up that slow metabolism Endomorphs usually carry to help burn more calories and increase fat loss. So for this ab workout, I recommend completing it after your cardio to ensure that most of your energy is expended to burn calories at a higher rate, and for doing so, cardio performed at a high intensity that increase your heart rate will do just that.

Now we want to train the abs and we want to make sure that we are applying proper tension to the entire abdominal region and not just a small portion. For this routine, no equipment will be needed. These exercises will be super setting in pairs of 2 exercises at a time, back to back with no rest transitioning between exercises. What this means is that after you finish exercise A, instead of resting, you will perform exercise B, followed by a rest after you finish the 2^nd exercise.

The Upper Abs

For the top abs, you can perform lying knee crunches. Lay on your back, lift your knees up to a 90 degree angle, hands behind your head, and perform the standard crunch by bringing your back off the ground while squeezing your abs. Perform 30-50 of these before transitioning immediately to the next exercise of cross elbow-knee crunches. Cross Elbow-Knee crunches are similar to what you just did, only know as you crunch, you will bring your right elbow to your left knee, followed by releasing back down and bringing your left elbow to your right knee. Complete for 30-50 reps as well. Each elbow-knee touch is one rep.