Men's Health

How to get cover guy abs

A six-pack turns heads, but unless you have strong deep-abdominal muscles (the ones close to the spine), you’ll never develop your optimal midsection. Strengthen these main ab muscles – your tranverse abdominis and the multifidus – with the following exercises. Do the drawing-in manoeuvre with each move (focus on pulling in the portion of your abs below the navel) and you’ll activate your transverse abdominis even more.

Jan 13, 2012