7 Weighted Ab Exercises — For When You Really Want to Torch Your Core

The woodchop recruits your entire core, including your obliques.

• Start standing with your feet a little wider than hip distance apart. Holding a dumbbell, kettlebell, or medicine ball in both hands. Raise the weight over your head, making sure to keep your shoulders from inching up toward your ears.
• On an exhale, pull your abs toward your spine and "chop" the weight down diagonally across your body toward the outside of your right knee, bending both legs and pivoting on your left foot.
• With control, lift the weight back up to the starting position. That's one rep.