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10-03-2008, 02:09 PM
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| Rank: Lightweight Experience: > 1 Year Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Saskatoon, Sk, Canada
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Gender:   |  Well he thinks he is for real... I quit reading after two paragraphs. The part where he said dynamic abdominal strength is more usable in everyday life. WTF?! Everyday life = standing up / walking. Therefore static endurance would be way more useful. Unless of course you're a wacky waving inflatable advertisement doll... And people will believe him because it has a nice picture to go along with it and looks semi-professional. IronWorker |
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10-03-2008, 02:12 PM
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| Rank: Middleweight Experience: 1-2 Years  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Midwest
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 i stopped reading when i hit "situps are way better for working your core" | |
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10-03-2008, 03:53 PM
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| Rank: Middleweight Experience: 1-2 Years Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Midwest
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Gender: | not that being completely ass worn out after doing something means it's good....but...i'm exhausted after planks. situps don't do anything like that. i dunno if doctor doesn't gather that you're supposed to squeeze your ass and your abs the entire time you are in the position...or wha? |
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10-03-2008, 03:56 PM
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Gender: | May as well be contemplating what Richard Simmons thinks about that. I actually know a girl who could kick many of our asses in terms of core strength and kickass abs...she's a yoga instuctor who emphasizes core "stiffness". As far as situps...janda situps are the only "situps" I've ever found to be efficient. |
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10-03-2008, 04:15 PM
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Gender: | They're easy to do. They basically work by "reciprocal inhibition". Originally, Janda would have a trainee get in a standard situp position, with the knees bent and feet flat on the floor. Then he would place his hands behind their calves, about half-way up. He would tell them to resist the pressure he placed against their calves and try to keep their feet on the floor while doing a situp. This recruits the glutes and hams and thus relaxes the hip flexors, "isolating" the abs. That's the theory. Try it for your self and yeah, you will feel like your abs have been isolated like never before in a situp. You may not be able to do one rep without assistance. Pavel sells a device called a Pavelizer. But I do them without a training partner by using some stretch bands. I'll try to describe it. I use my low/high pulley station. With the seat off. I take two bands and hook one around each prong of the weight holders and then lay them over the knee pads. Then I lay in front of the pulley station and put the bands around my calves about half way up. I back up until they are placing a lot of tension on me which is perfectly placed in this sort of slanted upwards angle. In other words the straps are wanting to both straighten my knees and pull my feet up. Perfect. So I fight that and keep my feet on the floor and the hip flexors are GONE. At first I couldn't do a rep without ANOTHER band to assist me. |
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