What's the best weighted or bodyweight exercise for abs?
currently doing weighted crunches
weighted bodyweight machine leg raises
This is all you will ever need, nothing is better than this/variations of it.
Assuming, you only want abs for aesthetic reasons. (you should hit failure with correct form for 3x10 sets) if not, add weight, or find a decline bench that also has an arc like this for abs.
Also, put a a weight between your heel and but, and CONTRACT your hamstrings the whole time you are doing abs, (this makes it IMPOSSIBLE to activate your hip flexors.
you can activate the hamstrings a million different way, just find a way and make sure you are actively tensing the hammies.
You will not get a better answer in this thread.
>>35068868
>weighted or bodyweight
i've been doing decline crunches with a weight, half of them rotating my torso for dem obliques
speaking of which anybody know any other good oblique exercises? I need to get my adonis back
>>35069170
Don't do side bends, that's fucking retarded, and anyone who's seen one of the human pictures without the skin, will see why.
It's a horizontal muscle that wraps AROUND you, not vertically.
Look up Russian twists, they are good.
Those oblique machines that work horizontally are truly optimal though (Only time I've ever recommended a machine for something)
>>35070032
Are you implying that side bends do not employ the skeletal-muscular system and instead, are done by some form of bio-sorcery?
>>35070204
Are you implying range of motion doesn't effect gains in hypertrophy or strength?
>>35068868
>abwheel
>dragon flags
>keeping tension in all other major lifts
that's it
>>35070248
my neck hurts a lot when doing dragon flags
>>35070248
>>35070263
There's no reason to do a dragon flag, (uses hip flexor) In addition to abs.
Just do reverse crunches (no pointless hip flexors involved)
What's the point of ab exercises?
>>35068868
I would do abwheel + different gymnastic positions, like L-Sit
I want to build a thick, strong core, not a v tapered one.
How do? Any difference or genetics?
what about sit ups on the carpet
>>35070354
To work out your abs
>>35070463
The difference is, you do obliques too.
>>35070598
Sounds about right. Thanks.
>>35068868
squat, deadlift, press and clean are all you need for visible abs
abs exist to keep your torso straight not to do unnatural movements like crunches
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For real though, this will cut you the fuck up. Quit that crunch bullshit.
Just make sure you're clenching your ass and keeping a straight back and it'll tear your abs apart.
https://www.youtube.com/user/iDubbbzTV/featured
Video on how to do them properly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LODLuCEp3qs
>ctrl+F "ab wheel"
>literally only one post and it is the last one, not the first one
>>35070661
only this man knows.
everyone else is a fool
>>35070661
ab wheel is GOAT. If you can't be bothered buying one just use a barbell and a plate on each side
>>35070661
Still less range of motion than >>35069029
Most people on fit couldn't even do 3x5 of those regardless.
>>35070576
What's the benefit of working out your abs?
>>35070661
>guy is as fat as me
>is training his abs
lol why?
>>35070687
Also becomes much more difficult to activate your hamstrings in that position, bringing hip flexors into the equation.
>>35070692
To get stronger abs
>>35070692
Bigger abs.
>>35070686
>ab wheel is GOAT. If you can't be bothered buying one just use a barbell and a plate on each side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I3LgiumTJM
around 4 mins, this fag talks about "weighted" ab wheels, so you have to fight the inertia (he says friction, but he means inertia) of the weight on the bar
for progressing on the ab wheel
>>35070721
people at my gym would be so mad if I was using 6 plates for an ab exercise.
I just want to be able to do a standing rollout but after months I still can't. Are there any progressions for that?
>>35070661
2015
not posting scooby's ab wheel vid
if scooby does it, I FUCKING DO IT
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzrkgL7HE9Q
>>35070741
>people at my gym would be so mad
who cares?
you're getting dem gainz
and why would they be less mad if you used those plates for anything else?
>>35070764
Why do scoob's tits mildly arouse me?
>>35070906
can't blame you
pecs that big with NEGATIVE gyno (those are some titanium hard nips) will arouse even the straightest of men
>>35070905
weightlifting gym, people get kind of weird if you use bumpers for anything but compounds or the classics. They threw one guy out for curling on a platform with the eleiko bar
>>35070906
Would you blow a load on them?
>>35070937
I'd suck and lick them like I was eating coconut flavored ass.
>>35070933
good thing my gym isn't filled with a bunch of uptight faggots.
also it is crucial you watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8
Weighted planks
Side planks
Ab wheel
Dragon flags
Highbar/front squats
Deadlifts
>>35069029
This guy gets it.
ROM+Countering the hip flexors=Perfect ab exercise.
Other ab exercises are pointless after this, unless you are an athlete, then you should train obliques as well.
>>35069029
Is this a meme? If not, what the fuck is it?
>>35070661
This right here
I tried it first when I was 260 lbs and could do like 5 reps.
Now I just play with it and you can go a little sideways to target your sides so you won't lose them so much.
It's like an active plank
>>35071785
......It's an abmat....
>>35071785
It's honestly terrifying how often people ask if something is a meme on /fit/
>>35070741
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vfTLXQUZeI
>>35071785
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMlTe3avTB4
and yes, this is better than an ab wheel. (Aesthetics)
>>35070661
This shit will get light af after a while.
Dragon flag master race. You can even do them weighted if you master it 8+ reps (probably never)
>>35070619
Don't fall for this troll and just work your abs. I was squatting 2 and deadlifting 3 plates and even then they did not appear. One month after I started doing leg raises and crunches I had full 6. They are great for abs but not enough by themselves.
>>35070977
No dumbass you're the one who is retarded on that subject. Doing rolls with the barbell breaks the disks of the barbell making it unusable.
>>35072141
>i was doing the most normie weight possible and I didn't have abs
Gee, I wonder why. I have abs and work my core maybe once a week.
>>35072189
Mate I know you're e-statting but 2 plates and 3 plates for a normal person is solid unless they are hambeasts. And since I got abs just after adding ab work I think squats and deadlifts are not that helpful.
>>35068868
Try dragonflies they are hard af and you can pretend to be Rocky
Fuck your planks. Wanna challenge your core?
HOLLOW BODY HOLD you fucking cunts
Work your way up to 5x60seconds hold
>>35072093
to be fair its pretty hard to tell for someone who knows nothing about fitness. think of all the horror stories with shit like GOMAD etc
>>35072103
Can you do this without the mat, just on the carpet?
>>35070619
>>35073690
this is not about core strength, fuck off.
>>35068868
I do one where I take a 45 lb plate, lay on my back and hold it out with my arms extended, then lift my shoulders off the ground for reps,
then, I crunch off the ground completely and keep the 45 lb plate over my head for reps
>>35074079
Yes, but the range of motion it brings is what separates it from the pack.
Just doing them on the carpet reduces the effectiveness, making NUMEROUS other exercises better, like the ab wheel.
i know how you can get what you seek op :)
>>35074264
Why you telling me to fuck off? Thats rather rude.
Hollow body holds works your abs hard.
>>35072141
You were literally lifting the same as people 3 months into SS.
