Squeeze and crunch

[cjsmith]

If you're a computer programmer, your livelihood depends in large part on your hands and on the health of their flexor tendons. If you have foot or leg problems, your ability to exercise (and thus your cardiovascular health) depends in large part on your hands and on the health of their flexor tendons. In other words, I now have a grip squeezie.

Got a question for all you fitness buffs out there. How do you work the abdominal muscles that AREN'T the basic six-pack rectus abdominis? How about those obliques and that deep transverse one?

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[inflectionpoint.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

Something I do with squeezy exercises is this... do the squeeze and release with the whole hand. The make a fist and release thing, right.

Now, go back and do the squeeze and release with one finger at a time. It's much tougher working the muscles in isolation, and I can sure feel the effort in the pinky and ring fingers.

Getting yourself a rubber band is also fun if you want to practice opening the hand against resistance, the flip side of the grippy ball exercise.

Not sure about the abs, I can ask at yoga class sometime, I think that some of the (far too many) leg lifts we do when lying on the floor might target this area.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the one-finger-at-a-time idea! Nifty.

I bet yoga has some cool stuff for the abs, but I am currently coming up with only the standing stuff like Triangle Pose. Is there a sideways version of the Cobra pose?