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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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Now if only I were happy with the spelling of the other half of that phrase. I always thought it was either "rectus abdominus" or "rectus abdominii" depending on whether you wanted to pluralize it, but Google and Wikipedia and the like seem to merge the two together and go with "abdominis." That doesn't look right at ALL.

You wouldn't believe, or maybe you would, what a good heart-pounding sprint on a water rower can do to those grip tendons. Realizing that both my livelihood and my future health were threatened in one swoop was scary.