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Lucy Gornall

I did 20 hanging leg raises for 2 weeks — here's what happened to my body

a photo of a man doing hanging leg raises.

Bored of crunches and sit-ups, or fancy taking your floor-based leg raises up a notch? Say hello to the hanging leg raise, an exercise that can take a while to master but oh boy, is it worth practicing.

A hanging leg raise is not easy, but as core exercises go, this is up there in my top five. It's a brutal exercise, but it’s addictive and I’ve found myself jumping up and grabbing onto pull-up bars as often as possible to raise my legs up and down in the hope that it will do wonders for my core.

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