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V-ups, hip-ups, alternate toe touches

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[sweetvanillaextract]

love David Lee Roth in the background!

[theyiddish]

Just did this for the first time a couple days ago. I wanted to die. I can only imagine what the bluehaired treadmillers thought of me.

[180Patrick360]

Are you Southpaw from MAP?

[heenie]

haha now i know. thanks!

[chutebox]

the vid is to show the routine. would you want a 29 sec vid that gets to the point, or a 2 min vid for three excercises. Get Smart!

[RessUT]

you can overtrain them, but you can also do core everyday since your core is not only your abs but lower back as well--something that people forget..you can work different groups of abs

[queensdawg]

this is why he usually blocks comments.. stupid internet police..

[TheB1gSleep]

No need to get all up in a tizzy, I'm just saying that it is POSSIBLE to overtrain any muscle and your abdominals are not an exception to that. Doing non-resistance based exercises would probably never overtrain your abs, which is why you see people do ridiculous volume bodyweight crunches everyday versus doing some simple heavy crunches or leg raises a few times a week to get the same or better results

[Southpaw447]

Which is why I said I'm not an expert, genius.

When I trained Thai Boxing my instructor told me core/ab work can and should be done everyday.

I still do core work everyday to this day for the past several years and my deadlifts and squats haven't stagnated very much, if not at all.

Just what I was told.

[TheB1gSleep]

Why would your abdominals be any different than any other muscle in regards to overtraining? THey are made of the same tissue and cells as any other muscle so they are no special case for being "over-trained". Hitting your abs excessively will just deteriorate from heavy core lifts like squats, deads, etc.