1.   Slowly and smoothly pull your abdominal muscles in tight, keeping your chest and thighs in contact with the floor.

2.   This week she has devised the Oblique Crunch, to strengthen abdominal muscles.

3.   It was the only time our abdominal muscles ached -- with laughter of course.

4.   Along with abdominal muscles, Riech can crunch numbers with the best of them.

5.   Although Larry Johnson went through a pain-free workout after having a minor back strain, John Starks missed most of Tuesday with a pulled abdominal muscle.

6.   At the same time, middle linebacker Robert Jones was out because of a strained abdominal muscle.

7.   At the hospital, she learned she had a concussion, two torn lumbar discs, a torn abdominal muscle and an injured left eye.

8.   Bjornson is listed as questionable with a strained abdominal muscle.

9.   A strained abdominal muscle suffered early in training camp has kept him out of practice ever since.

10.   A sports hernia deals with a defect or tear in one of the coverings of the abdominal muscle.