When setting up an abdo circuit, or abdominal routine, or following someone else, make sure that the exercises you perform include a variety of different movements that engage your entire core.
These movements include anti-bending, anti-extension and anti-rotation movements:
- Anti-flexion: exercises such as crunches at the pulley, which force you to resist a weight that tries to pull your spine in flexion
- Anti-extension: exercises such as the lower back curls, which are the opposite of anti-flexion. The goal is to resist a load that attempts to extend your spine.
- Anti-rotation: exercises such as the abdominal wheel or rolling on a stability ball, which resist the force that attempts to turn your body. Any exercise, such as the Pallof press, done with a weight held on one side of the body, is also an anti-rotation exercise.
- Anti-rotation: exercises such as the abdominal wheel or rolling on a stability ball, which resist the force that attempts to turn your body. Any exercise, such as the Pallof press, done with a weight held on one side of the body, is also an anti-rotation exercise.
Complex movements such as squat or lifting are also excellent exercises to add to your basic training program.
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