Hanging Leg Raise

Whether you are an advanced or beginning fitness enthusiast many experts suggest that doing a couple of sets of Hanging Leg Raise exercises can not just improve core strength, but they can also enhance your performance in other workout areas too. Especially those that require a pressing motion, because while this exercise works the entire midsection, it also works other muscle groups too, including the lats. So you may well see improvements when you do the bench press, bent press, a dead lift, or even pull ups.

Given this information, it’s not all that surprising that this exercise is often included in a wide range of home, sports, or gym based workouts, along with other core training or stomach fat reducing exercises, including crunches, sit ups, the jackknife, and the half curl. While it’s tempting to think that you need to be at the gym to do this exercise properly, since it requires a bar, some hardcore fitness experts suggest that it can be done anywhere, including the park or the woods, where branches are plentifully. But you can also install a pull up bar in your home and that does the trick too.

The other thing that individuals looking at core training exercises, like about the Hanging Leg Raise, seem to like is that it gets them up off the floor. So, once your ready to begin doing this stomach fat workout, you start by taking hold of the bar and just hanging their. Don’t do anything, just hang, and wait for your body to get still. At this point your legs should be straight and you should be totally still.

Then flex all of the muscles in your upper body, focusing on the lats and abs, as well as the muscles around your elbows. At that point you can begin lifting your legs up toward the bar, keeping in mind that they should stay straight the entire time. Then the legs are lowered and you can do another rep. The move should be done in a smooth and steady fashion, taking about five to eight seconds to get up, and another five to eight seconds to go back down.

Here’s an interesting tidbit: the Hanging Leg Raise is one of the few strength training exercises performed by the Soviet underground power lifters in the 80’s. And while the exercise was popular back then, it is still quite popular today.