Michael
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Post by Michael on Jan 15, 2020 23:46:54 GMT
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Dave Reslo
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Post by Dave Reslo on Jan 16, 2020 2:26:18 GMT
I've been doing janda situp lately (using a band with the Hook doorway anchor) and loving them
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Michael
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Post by Michael on Jan 16, 2020 11:39:24 GMT
Yeah Dave, they are a good exercise. I was doing them but I put the band around the pole and stuck my feet in the loops. Good idea with the anchor, Thanks!
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Post by fredhutch on Jan 16, 2020 16:23:48 GMT
Hate abs? Say it ain't so. Last few months I've been training my abs twice a day, seven days a week. Works for me.
The samurai sez: "The body is like iron, the more you beat it the stronger it becomes"...
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Dave Reslo
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Post by Dave Reslo on Jan 16, 2020 17:55:17 GMT
I still say carrying and one hand lifts are the best but in the winter I am often left to exercise indoors.
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Michael
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Post by Michael on Jan 16, 2020 18:53:57 GMT
Hate abs? Say it ain't so. Last few months I've been training my abs twice a day, seven days a week. Works for me. The samurai sez: "The body is like iron, the more you beat it the stronger it becomes"... What are you doing for Your and? I get what guys say here but I still do abs. What people call core, I call stomach and lower back. Considering my back history they're pretty important to me. Like Dave said, I know, one arm lifts and carries will work your midsection. But for myself that doesn't feel like enough. I can feel the difference. Plus I like training abs.
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trog
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Post by trog on Jan 17, 2020 9:42:45 GMT
I don't like ab work, but I do it. I do most of my workout standing up, which means you really have to concentrate on using the core to keep stability. In ballet, which I do when I'm not in the gym, the abs, backside and hips must be held firm, and the upper body float like a cloud.
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Post by fredhutch on Jan 17, 2020 15:20:53 GMT
Michael, in the morning I do two exercises: the first begins on your back with the legs straight up into the air, arms alongside the body on the floor, from there push the legs straight up; I go up quickly and lower slowly and then hold statically just above the floor (eccentric isometrics). I use a 5 lb ankle weight on each leg for these, and do three sets. Then I do the same eccentric isometric protocol with a standard crunch, 5 lbs held in back of head.
In the late afternoon I do four exercises I learned from Al Colangelo for ab work, then finish with a few ab exercises done in the style promoted in the "Amazing Abs of Shaolin" course, which is the only course I know of that teaches how to use chi power for muscle strengthening, it's a great course and very valuable.
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pierinifitness
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Post by pierinifitness on Jan 17, 2020 15:42:34 GMT
Michael is putting pressure on me to do direct ab work, seems time consuming. Remember doing 3 rounds last year of my Pierini KB carries complex using a 24kg KB where a round lasts about 7 minutes. For the next 3 to 4 days, my core musculature was sore and felt like it had been worked really hard. Never did that workout again (3 rounds) as that was a bit much.
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Michael
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Post by Michael on Jan 17, 2020 17:53:09 GMT
I do understand and sometimes do what Dave said about carries and one hand lifts. From my own personal experience, these are not what protects me for pulling something while working.
You guys know the science better than me. I know that most say You can't separate upper, lower, and obliques. I don't know or really care because I do what works for me. Just guessing from what I've read, before people said sit ups, crunches, or leg raises were bad for you, the old times were all doing them. I could be mistaken but you did here to much about back problems or hernias.
My favorite ab exercise is the Get up. The movement combines a crunch, sit up, and side/regular plank (depending if you do a plank with it). I do like to do regular ab training sometimes and it's only as time consuming as You make it.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jan 17, 2020 22:09:27 GMT
Believe it or not, wall trcieps kickbacks really hits your abs hard.
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pierinifitness
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Post by pierinifitness on Jan 17, 2020 22:14:32 GMT
I made my first 2020 fitness gadget impulse purchase a couple days ago after stalking it for about a week on Amazon. It's a 15-lb. slam ball and it arrived today. Spending some time viewing YouTube to get some workout ideas, I stumbled across this video and see a lot of ab/core work being done. I'll take my new slam ball for a test drive shortly but will probably save this workout for a later, but soon, date. If I can remember, I'll report back how it went.
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Michael
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Post by Michael on Jan 18, 2020 1:10:01 GMT
Believe it or not, wall trcieps kickbacks really hits your abs hard. I had forgot about this one Bruce. Thanks for the reminder.
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Michael
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Post by Michael on Jan 18, 2020 20:35:45 GMT
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Post by fredhutch on Jan 19, 2020 18:09:25 GMT
Greer Childers sez: "If you haven't had at least three kids, you don't know a damn thing about getting a flat stomach".
And in all seriousness, Greer's BodyFlex breathing (which I think is on youtube for free) is a heavy duty version of the vacuum and well worth looking into, and it builds terrific lung power too.
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