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?

Comments

[bigredpaul.livejournal.com]

the obliques have two actions:

the rotate the torso, and they help laterally flex the vertebral column. well, ok, techincally they have a third action of compressing the abdominal contents (sucking in your gut, as it were).

So, with that in mind, any action that brings your shoulder to its opposite knee will recruit those muscles - crossways crunching, as it were. side bends are good, too. but those exercises are boring, and i'm sure that some personal trainer would be more help than me!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Boring is okay to start with. So I could do the twisty style of crunches, and I could lie on my side and try to lift my torso without using my arms much?

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

Cross crunches are great. A lot of my ab work requires a ball, which requires feet to brace with, so any ab work than can be done simply on the floor is the way to go.