Avoid exercises called a leg lift or double straight leg raise! They are the same thing.

Here is a description of the exercise - Lie on the floor, legs straight out, hands at your sides. Lift your legs straight up (not bending your knees at all) until they're at a ninety degree angle (or close).

Raising or lowering straight legs exercises the hip flexors but does almost nothing for your abdominal muscles, so why is this exercise recommended for building six pack abs? Abdominal muscles are not attached to your legs but will contract to reduce pressure on the spine. However any exercise they receive is minor - this is a flexor exercise as I have already mentioned.

There is a massive downside. Discs and vertebrae can experience compression injuries and muscular tears and ligament damage are other possible consequences of this exercise.

This is an extremely dangerous exercise! Learn from my experience - don't make the same mistake.

The safe way to build 6 pack abs is to get professional advice from a personal trainer.

Mike Geary, who is a Certified Nutrition Specialist and Certified Personal Trainer has written a book - "The Truth about Six Pack Abs". In it he explains his very successful program that has helped thousands of men and women to get hard ripped abdominals - the proverbial 6 pack abs!

The main focus of Mike's program is NOT on abdominal exercises... And, better yet, this program consistently get's BETTER results by NOT focusing 100% on abs exercises!

I know that sounds counterintuitive, but the fact of the matter is that abdominal exercises are ok, and you do need to do a certain amount of them to develop the abs as best as possible. But to be honest, most people that are trying to get better looking abdominals waste WAY too much time training the abs directly. What you really need to focus on is burning off the extra fat that is covering them up.

Let's get this straight right now... Abdominal exercises do NOT burn fat away from your abs! This can only be accomplished through a much more effective full body training routine that maximizes both your metabolic response and your hormonal response to your workouts. This is the main focus of the Truth about Six Pack Abs Program.

After all, you want to focus most of your efforts on the types of exercises, sequencing, and combinations that stimulate the biggest increases in testosterone and growth hormone response. This is the aspect of your workouts that you have probably been overlooking, yet it is the MOST important aspect that is going to get you insanely lean and cut!

You simply don't achieve this hormonal effect by wasting your time pumping away with crunches, situps, torso twists, leg raises, and ab machines.

Now don't get me wrong. Mike will show you the most effective exercises for developing your abdominals to the best extent possible. He also gives you detailed instructions and photos on how to do them properly.

Click here to learn more about Mike's book.