Everyone is always trying to come up with new ways to build muscle & shredded abs. When exactly do traditional exercises stop working? The answer is they didn’t and if you put your mind to it you can always find new ways to make the exercises you love MORE INTENSE to spark MORE GAINS!
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Today I want to share with you ONE exercise to help you get tighter and deeper cuts throughout your obliques. As you probably already know, when I do my ab training and when I create my programs, I like to incorporate movements where you do heavy weight for low reps, or light weight for high reps. Your abs are one of those muscle groups that are going to respond to both.
Traditionally when I do my oblique training, you’ll see me do a lot of woodchoppers and a lot of standing dumbbell oblique crunches as well. But, I’ve been looking for something new to do, and I wanted to put a twist on an old-school exercise.
Floor Oblique Crunch 2.0
What I started doing recently is a floor oblique crunch, however, I was able to intensify the exercise by bringing my legs into the movement. And I don’t mean intensify it by simply making it harder to do, but also by actually feeling a lot more engagement down the entire side of your body.
Traditionally when you do a floor oblique crunch, you bring one leg over the other, lay on your side, and crunch to the ceiling so that only your upper body is coming up off the ground. This is still an effective exercise, but can become “too easy” very quickly.
If you want to make the exercise even more intense, what you’re going to do is bring your feet together, and lift your toes off the ground by about an inch. Then, on every single repetition, you’re going to come up, and you’re going to bring your knees in AND crunch at the same time. When you go back to the starting position, your feet are never going to touch the ground. Keeping your feet 1 inch off the ground creates a tremendous amount of tension in your core! You’re going to continue to do this for 15 – 20 repetitions PER SIDE, and a total of 5 – 6 sets of this exercise.
What makes this exercise and this variation so great is that you can do this even if your core isn’t as strong as mine, but you still want to really go for it and aim for 20 repetitions. Let’s say you can only do this new variation for 8 repetitions. As soon as you finish those 8, put your feet on the ground, and then finish your other 12 the regular way. Then every single time you start your set, do as many as you can with your feet off the ground and knees coming up, before putting your feet down when you get tired, and finishing your set the traditional way. Always pushing yourself to do the advanced version at the start of every set is still PROGRESSION!
Conclusion
When you’re training ANY muscle group, you don’t have to find new exercises to do. A lot of times you can take a traditional movement and add a twist or a spin to it to make it a bit more intense, but so that it still makes sense with your training.
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Everyone is always trying to come up with new ways to build muscle & shredded abs. When exactly do traditional exercises stop working? The answer is they didn't and if you put your mind to it you can always find new ways to make the exercises you love MORE INTENSE to spark MORE GAINS! FULL WORKOUT PROGRAMS! – https://muscularstrength.com/Full-Workout-Programs
Known this one for fucking time man it's called an accordion crunch
Please make more!!
I would say that he's doing a marvelous job and the fact that these videos are shorter than before makes focus easier.
Oiiii, another (as usual) great video with useful content!! Thanks Bro!!
Try those https://youtu.be/tD8uZNVL4wM
lets get STAHTED!
i did standing dumbell oblique crunches with a 100 kilo (220 pounds) dumbell for 10 clean reps yesterday but i still dot got that killer obliques.
Started C&R on Monday and I’m beyond excited for what the next four months of this program is going to do for my body. I appreciate the hard work and good quality material you put into your videos. Enjoy your day bro.
That does not look fun.
I'm sorry, but isn't that standing oblique crunch really hard on your spine? Why would you ever want to twist your spine in such an unnatural way while loading up with weight?
Coool!!!
Greetings from MĂ©xico!!
Great video and advise as always sir – best wishes P)
Do you have any major tips for training chest? I've been struggling to get much growth when compared to other body parts
scott you smart smart man it works like a charm
Dude I beat my 3 rep max today then added 10 more pounds and got 2 more reps beyond that. Strength window is open right now and im taking advantage of it. I will try these workouts tomorrow.
Classic + improved. That's the best combo
lookin good scott your abs look awesome
Nice and straight to the point, keep it up Scott!
About to get a hernia doing this with my regular ab routine lol
interesting
My baby scott
Yes, I only know how to do 21s with and without weights lol
I've smashed that like button
amazing! Well found Scott!!
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Scott was working on his new twist on the twist lol #hairspray2007 #mynewworkout
P90x?
Hahah I did this the other day without even knowing I did the more effective variation!! And my obliques are DEAD
How often do you do this exercise?
0:40 Was that a pun?
Hi. Do u have 3 favorite oblique exercises that work the best?
tiny vaginy
Haada
Accent starting to get Midwestern….hmmm?
Dyou have suggested rep & set ranges on an ab routine for hypertrophy on a bulk? I always stick to 13-17 sets and 8-12 rep range per muscle group but with abs I see a lot of different suggestions.
Thank you for your tips my friend, did them last night and I definitely feel the difference.
anyone else notice the ring of Saturn reference?
T drinker
You appear to be really yanking your head up?