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Post by stuke on Oct 23, 2019 18:33:46 GMT
I have found that push ups done with a sort of intent to raise the backside up high when you get to the top, crunching 8n the abs is very good. If you imagine a normal puah up is already like a plank, this combines it with a great ab contraction.
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Michael
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Post by Michael on Oct 23, 2019 20:10:58 GMT
It was a while ago, 2 or 3 years ago. I really don't remember how far I got with it. Oh. A pity. Lever workouts can be quite enjoyable. There must be 50 ways to love your lever.
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Post by Dave Reslo on Oct 23, 2019 20:58:18 GMT
I slide my hands up my legs, squeezing at the top. Hot
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Post by chanduthemagician on Oct 24, 2019 0:24:04 GMT
I've never done abs with any regularity at all. I've always been able to snap off 30+ situps in a minute or do a few hanging leg raises. I have deadlifted since I was a teen though and I attribute any an all of my ab ability to the abs being used as stabilizers. I'm 50 and still don't do abs. I was in the gym the other day and my daughter was using one of those ab machines wherein you grab the handles at shoulder level and do a crunch. I loaded the entire stack and did an easy 10. I see no reason to spend any time on abs in my case.
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Post by pierinifitness on Oct 24, 2019 0:33:42 GMT
One of the sorest my abs/core muscles have been was earlier this year when I did, for the first time, a single-arm KB complex of waiters carries, rack carries and finally suitcase carries, doing each for one-minute with a 15-second transition to the other arm or next carry. Took 7:30 to complete. I used a heavy, for me, KB. So sore was I that I resolved to add carries to my training rotation.
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Post by mr potatohead on Oct 24, 2019 14:50:47 GMT
I really like the single-arm loaded carry. I'm glad you guys turned me on to it.
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stuke
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Post by stuke on Oct 26, 2019 8:23:06 GMT
A few years ago I got into balancing - I would set a 5'bar in between a couple of wooden blocks I made that locked it in place about 6 inches from the ground. I would then walk the length of the bar, forwarf, backwards, sidewards, try squatting down and up or even just stand still. I would also put a short, thick plank across the bar, with the bar being a pivot point, and with one foor on either end of the plank, use it as a balance board.
All this really hit the abs, and particularly hit the intercostals and serratus, juat by all the micro adjuagments yiu had to make to syay balanced. Quite good fun too.
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Post by billfish on Oct 26, 2019 19:07:45 GMT
A few years ago I got into balancing - I would set a 5'bar in between a couple of wooden blocks I made that locked it in place about 6 inches from the ground. I would then walk the length of the bar, forwarf, backwards, sidewards, try squatting down and up or even just stand still. I would also put a short, thick plank across the bar, with the bar being a pivot point, and with one foor on either end of the plank, use it as a balance board. All this really hit the abs, and particularly hit the intercostals and serratus, juat by all the micro adjuagments yiu had to make to syay balanced. Quite good fun too. I have some old pipe in my garage and just tried what you described with the pipe.....wow, challenging ! I'm going to set something up to do this Now I walk on 2x4s but the pipe is something else altogether Thanks for the suggestion
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Post by billfish on Oct 26, 2019 19:09:08 GMT
It was a while ago, 2 or 3 years ago. I really don't remember how far I got with it. It took me a few years of trying, getting frustrated and stopping and trying again....but finally I did it
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Post by bob44 on Oct 27, 2019 0:34:13 GMT
I never found that sit-ups or crunches were bad for my back. But my cousin really screwed up his disc while we were backpacking just by pulling his knees to his chest to stretch first thing in the morning while lying on his back. He could not straighten up for over 3 weeks and he was on strong pain meds and had nerve blocks. So I can see where that motion could cause problems. My problem was I used to do a lot of ab work and not much back work to keep it balanced.
Two of my favorite ab exercises were standing rollouts and climbing a peg board. I cannot do either anymore. I still do the ab rollouts on my knees and some other ab exercises, but I try to offset with back exercises too.
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stuke
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Post by stuke on Oct 27, 2019 20:25:24 GMT
A few years ago I got into balancing - I would set a 5'bar in between a couple of wooden blocks I made that locked it in place about 6 inches from the ground. I would then walk the length of the bar, forwarf, backwards, sidewards, try squatting down and up or even just stand still. I would also put a short, thick plank across the bar, with the bar being a pivot point, and with one foor on either end of the plank, use it as a balance board. All this really hit the abs, and particularly hit the intercostals and serratus, juat by all the micro adjuagments yiu had to make to syay balanced. Quite good fun too. I have some old pipe in my garage and just tried what you described with the pipe.....wow, challenging ! I'm going to set something up to do this Now I walk on 2x4s but the pipe is something else altogether Thanks for the suggestion Thanks. I got the idea from this guy, just something different to try but the effect on the abs was a bonus. I just remembered, I also had a mini basketball I would stand on, just made sure I had something nearby to grab on if I slipped! You can always let a but of air out to make it easier to start with. I eventually bought slackline equipment, had a few goes but need to get back into it.
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Post by billfish on Oct 27, 2019 21:04:11 GMT
Sometimes we stand one leg (tree pose) on a Yoga block, the foam kind and the close eyes. That has to be difficult
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stuke
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Post by stuke on Oct 28, 2019 20:15:01 GMT
One of the sorest my abs/core muscles have been was earlier this year when I did, for the first time, a single-arm KB complex of waiters carries, rack carries and finally suitcase carries, doing each for one-minute with a 15-second transition to the other arm or next carry. Took 7:30 to complete. I used a heavy, for me, KB. So sore was I that I resolved to add carries to my training rotation. Can you tell us more about those carries? How specifically do you do them?
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Michael
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Post by Michael on Oct 28, 2019 21:25:18 GMT
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stuke
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Post by stuke on Oct 28, 2019 23:27:23 GMT
Great, thank you and to Pierini for demonstrating of course!
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