This is day nine in the 30 Abs Exercises In 30 Days Series of articles.

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If you’re at all like me you get bored doing the same old abs exercises, if you get to them at all. For the next 30 days I’m going to give you a new abdominal exercise along with instructions on how to correctly perform the exercise!

Abs Exercise #9: Hanging Straight Leg Raise

The hanging straight leg raise is part of the gold medal abs workout. The gold medal abs are a series of ab workouts developed by Olympic trainers.

You will need a pull bar to perform the exercise or some other sort of beam to hold yourself up. A power tower would be perfect for this.

Here is the proper way to perform the hanging straight leg raise:

1. Hang your body from a pull bar gripping your hands at shoulder width apart.
2. Raise your legs up in a slow motion until they make a right angle with your torso.
3. Slowly lower you legs back down the hanging position.
4. Repeat steps 1 to 3 and do 1 set of 4-6 reps.
5. If you can comfortably do this then move onto raising your feet past 90 degrees and up towards your head.

Things to remember when doing the hanging straight leg raise:

• Don’t swing your legs and let the momentum do the work for you.
• Try to keep you bottom down as if you were sitting on a chair.
• Always use slow, smooth motions while bring your legs up and down.
• Throughout the exercise, stay focused on your abdominal muscles.

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