November 2nd, 2008
These are the obliques both internal and external, the transverse muscles, and the frontal muscles.
To start we have a group of eight stomach flattening exercises for you. As with any new physical activity, you should start this program slowly. I recommend that you begin with four reps of each exercise.
Work through all eight of the exercises this way, remembering to strain the muscles involved at their maximum during the exercise for greatest benefit. (more…)
October 27th, 2008
LET DOWN CRUNCH
Sit on the floor and bend your knees up to a 45 degree angle and your hands behind your head.
Lower slowly your torso backwards to a 45 degree angle. You’ll feel your muscles begin to pull.
Hold for four seconds, then slowly return to start position.
Repeat the exercise for the required reps. (more…)
October 27th, 2008
All of these ten exercises are good workouts for your stomach flattening program. It’s just that you can’t do eighteen exercises every day and hope to do much of anything else.
When you substitute one exercise for another, circle that exercise’s number on your workout chart. You may need to reduce the reps on a new exercise and you may not. If you’re at the eight rep step and you get a new exercise, you may want to drop it back to four and work it up to your level on the others. (more…)
July 30th, 2008
As I mentioned before, in the discussion of intensity in exercise, ground zero is this concept of positive failure, in which the last repetition you do in a set is the last one that you can possibly do without getting assistance or breaking good form. You must use a certain level of intense focus and physical effort to make sure that positive failure is truly all you can give, within the parameters given above. (more…)
