Working on abs during HST
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(BigL @ Jan. 31 2007,08:26)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Do pulley crunches work your whole abdomen? Lower abs too?</div>
They do mine, I can really feel them down in the transverse abdominus if I do them kneeling. Standing - not so much but that's me, others report differently.
Some say that if you feel it in the lower abs you are just feeling the hip flexors working. I tend to disagree, but am not an exercise physiologist and may be wrong. I just keep doing them the way I do because I feel it in the whole abdomen and sort of have abs, after being 300lbs I feel that having sort of abs is progress.
(BigL @ Jan. 31 2007,08:26)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Do pulley crunches work your whole abdomen? Lower abs too?</div>
They do mine, I can really feel them down in the transverse abdominus if I do them kneeling. Standing - not so much but that's me, others report differently.
Some say that if you feel it in the lower abs you are just feeling the hip flexors working. I tend to disagree, but am not an exercise physiologist and may be wrong. I just keep doing them the way I do because I feel it in the whole abdomen and sort of have abs, after being 300lbs I feel that having sort of abs is progress.
http://www.exrx.net/Muscles/RectusAbdominis.html
Unlike with pecs, there are no upper or lower abs. It's all one muscle.
http://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/Myths.html#anchor7319578
Unlike with pecs, there are no upper or lower abs. It's all one muscle.
http://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/Myths.html#anchor7319578
Joe.Muscle
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I have dropped my ab training to just seated weighted crunches for 20 reps and I am adding weight every time and it burns and hurts like hell!
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(Totentanz @ Feb. 03 2007,18:12)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">http://www.exrx.net/Muscles/RectusAbdominis.html
Unlike with pecs, there are no upper or lower abs. It's all one muscle.
http://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/Myths.html#anchor7319578</div>
The difference between upper and lower abs is not that they are seperate muscles, but rather one portion of your abs becomes more visible when you lose fat.
(Totentanz @ Feb. 03 2007,18:12)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">http://www.exrx.net/Muscles/RectusAbdominis.html
Unlike with pecs, there are no upper or lower abs. It's all one muscle.
http://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/Myths.html#anchor7319578</div>
The difference between upper and lower abs is not that they are seperate muscles, but rather one portion of your abs becomes more visible when you lose fat.