If leg raises are bad for your lower back, there are ways to fix them. Or, you could replace them with the double deadbug instead — a bodyweight abs exercise that helps strengthen your deep core ...

Targeting your lower abs might not be high on your priority ... of these abdominal muscles — think mountain climbers, leg raises, or reverse crunches — alongside core-stabilization exercises ...

Ash Grossmann, a movement mechanics expert and founder of The Training Stimulus, says there are alternative exercises which ...

They are “an Athlete Method favourite” for good reason then, “because as well as working your lower abs, leg raises also improve the strength and flexibility of your hips and lower back.” ...

Plan abs workouts strategically ... Use crunches for rectus abdominals, cross crunches and leg raises for obliques, and planks for transverse obliques.