New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- Despite its difficulty levels mostly remaining the same, ab exercises can get stale after a point. There has to be, after all, a way out of the usual crunch-plank-raise cycle that most ab routines are made of.

It seems like ab exercises were neglected a little when fitness went through an innovative period triggered by working out at home during the pandemic years. People were focussed on ways to solve the crisis of not having benches and large weights to exercise chest, arms and shoulder muscles. Legs workouts were still simpler with squats and lunges and calf raises, but ab workouts started looking the same across most fitness channels.

One way to get around this is to follow some guidelines mentioned in a Lounge...