2 Simple ABS Workout Mistakes Everyone Does! | FIX NOW! – ScottHermanFitness

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Today we’re going to talk about two mistakes you’re making, that’s pretty much rendering your ab workouts as USELESS!

These are actually such easy mistakes, that when I explain to you how to fix them, it’s going to change your entire world when it comes to training your abs. You can also apply these tips to ANY ab exercise!

Mistake #1: Skipping The “Actual Abs Contraction” & Engaging Your Hip Flexors Instead
This happens for most people on movements that are similar to a sit-up. When you do a sit-up, you obviously lay on your back with your knees bent and your feet close to your glutes. Naturally everyone is taught to lay down flat, and then come up so that your chest almost touches your knees. However, what’s happening when you get halfway through the movement, is a lot of people start engaging more of their hip flexors, and disengage their core. Once you get to the point where the most tension is on the abs, from there and as you move towards your knees, you might start pulling with your hip flexors, and if you’re not keeping your core tight, you’re not really working your abs.

So is it OK to go all the way up and all the way down? Yes, it is, but there is a problem that happens. I can relate to this a lot because I played a lot of sports when I was growing up. For training, instead of doing a certain numbers of reps with perfect form, we would simply get in a circle and do an exercise for as many reps as we could until our coach told us to stop. When we got tired, we would use momentum and throw our hands forward to help us get to the top of the movement. If you’re constantly throwing your arms forward like that, you’re actually skipping the part of the movement that is going to train your abs.

This goes for anything, and for those of you who like to use the weighted machines in your gym, I see a lot of people using momentum on those as well. What happens is people use the handles to thrust themselves forward, and they skip the concentric portion when you’re supposed to flex your abs. Therefore, in order to take advantage of a crunch or sit-up or whatever you decide to do, you need to actually focus on the flex. As you come up, you want to kind of roll your body over and really flex and squeeze your core as hard as you can. You can even go from the bottom position to a little over halfway up to maximize your ab engagement, you don’t actually have to go all the way up.

So mistake number one is not focusing on the flex, the most important part of the movement. Also, if you have a hard time doing that, have someone stand on your feet, or slide your feet under a couch or something if you are doing sit-ups at home. This will keep your feet in a fixed position, and it will really help you have the stability you need to focus on the flex. I guarantee if you do this, it’s going to feel REALLY good for your abs.

Mistake #2: No Emphasis Is Placed On Spinal Extension At The Bottom Of The Movement
This goes across the board for any ab exercise you do, and I see this mistake ALL the time. This is CRUCIAL. I always talk about how the most muscle damage occurs in the eccentric or stretching portion of any movement that you’re doing, and that applies for ab exercises too. If you lay down on the floor, do you think your abs are stretched more when you have your back flat on the ground? Or are they stretched more when you have a slight arch in your back with your spine extended?

If you guessed it would be stretched more with the slight arch, you’re correct.

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