Want great abs? Drop the crunches!

Fitness Professional, Kim Ball, has started a new video series. She's fed up with watching people's mistakes in the gym. In an attempt to help gym-goers avoid bad posture, muscular imbalances, and injury, Kim will be describing her pet peeves that take place in most gyms, AND she'll give tips on how to avoid committing these common "crimes".

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People & Blogs

Tags:

• Deliberate Movement
• Kim Ball
• pet peeves
• belly fat
• abdominal
• abs
• plank
• spot-reduce
• stomach
• exercise
• gym

[VonVladimierVoltar]

Want to loose that bloated look? Follow this girl's advise!

Heavy crunches give you that thick gut look. Planks are the best!

Thank you for the great vids... you have stunning legs and bum.

[deliberatemovement]

@VonVladimierVoltar Thanks, my friend! Great to have your support. And I never mind compliments ;) Cheers!

[LePutaMadre]

You're doing a lot of hoover for inner abs, u know we men need some power ab workout to get em big.

[deliberatemovement]

@LePutaMadre You want a power ab workout... Lift some big azz weights! Heavy deadlifts and squats... Squat thrusts... Olympic lifting, if you'd like. Big, powerful abs come from challenging compound movements - NOT crunches or leg lifts. And if you want strong abdominal muscles that are able to handle those big compound movements, you need to do exercises that best utilize the abs - exercises that use the abs as a stabilizer and a brace - like the planks I'm describing! They are not fluff!

[Darude356]

scooby has better abs than you and he does crunches, lol.

[deliberatemovement]

@Darude356 For sure he has rockin' abs! But I can tell you that they don't come from those crunches at all. But thanks for the comment :)

[FatShanWingChun]

I follow 8 minute ABS on you tube and saw massive improvement in fact the best in my life and I am 51 in just 2 weeks. These also look good exercises I do some of these from time to time,

[spartacus3]

She keeps calling this "the stomach"!! WHAT?!

[deliberatemovement]

@yashatono I can respect that. And, yes, I agree that there's no harm in doing them crunches in moderation. Thanks for subscribing - and feel free to leave any other comments you wish! I enjoy feedback :)

[yashatono]

@deliberatemovement

Thanks for a detailed and polite response.

I don't suggest that crunches should be anyones main abdominal excercise, but i just don't see enough reason to drop them alltogether as in moderation they won't lead to hunching you over.

I will watch your other videos and subscribe as there is obviously lots of things to be learned from your channel, but for me, the jury is out on dropping the crunch entirely.

- Steve