Conventional knowledge often holds that direct abb workouts, such as situps, leg lifts, and crunches, make the best abb workouts.

But you can achieve even better results with high power, full-body workouts that boost your metabolism while working your abs.

Below is some great abb workouts that does not involve direct ab exercises. The workout is like a super-set, but you rotate between 3 exercises in a tri-state format.

You can use a rep scheme of 3-4 sets of 8 reps for every one of the exercises. It's also effective to use 5 sets of 5 reps of each exercise. You can do the mountain climbers for thirty seconds instead of reps.

Renegade dumbbell rows - start in a pushup position with a dumbell in each hand. Whilst you stabilize your body with one arm, row one dumbbell up. Then you need to bring the dumbbell to the ground.

Stabilize with your opposite arm while you alternate your rowing arm. As you stabilize during rows, your midsection will get a remarkable workout, and you may definitely feel it in your abs.

Front squats - you can do these as if you were doing back squats, except you'll put the barbell on the front side of your shoulders before your body, and not rest them on your higher backs as you do in back squats.

To stabilize the barbell on your shoulders, keep your elbows out in front of your body and cross your arms; then push your fists into the bar against your shoulders. You will have to practice this. It's crucial to have a gy coach help you get the form right.

You'll also find you want great stabilization strength for front squats because you're shifting the barbell weight to the front of your body and not the back.

This is generally a leg exercise, but you will be shocked how much you are feeling it in your abs.

Mountain climbers - begin in a pushup position and shuffle your feet in to make your knees move first under your chest and then out to your beginning position. You will feel like you're climbing a mountain, but it is actually flat on the floor.

If you're adventurous, shuffle your hands backward and forward 10 inches whilst you are doing your leg movements.

This can give you a full body exercise, and you'll find that it is way harder than using regular mountain climbers.

As you complete each exercise, make efforts to rest for almost half a minute before beginning the next one. Also, remember to rest for about one to 2 mins after completing each tri-set before you repeat. You're going to find that these indirect exercises give you the best abb workouts. And you're not doing any direct ab exercises. Try it yourself!