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♪ On the internet ♪
- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today we're gonna go over
the best abdominal oblique exercises
that you can actually perform in your bedroom,
that sounds a little risqué, Brad.
- Oh Bob, say no more this is a family show, remember.
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- So today once again we're gonna bring
in two of our guests, our camerawoman
and one of the guys that works with us,
Br-- uh, Alex, not Brad, Alex.
And they actually have their own channel,
which is quite cool, the Family Product Channel.
- And they happen to be husband and wife.
- Yeah, and we'll put a link down below,
check out their channel and let's bring 'em on in.
- Come on in. - Yeah, come on down.
- Are you ready to work those abs?
- What abs, Brad?
What abs?
- Come on in, Liz.
- So at the end do we get to punch you in the abdomen
and see if the--
- Oh yeah, we're gonna do the full abdomen workout on this.
Okay so, oh whoever gets, it's upside down.
- Now there we go.
- Check it out, check it out.
- I'm gonna take over the camera.
- So, before we do this, I just wanna mention the title
in your bedroom, the reason, one of the reasons I said this,
because you do need to have a band,
a resistance band for this, okay?
And it works better if you have handles
on the end, we have those here.
- [Bob] Well it's actually resistance tubing.
- Tubing, I'm sorry.
And you're gonna need one of these
that usually come with the tubing, okay?
To put it in your door.
Okay, this fits in your door for different levels
and you'll see just exactly how that works.
Otherwise Bob actually has the ball anchors on the wall,
in his bedroom and him and his wife
use these on a regular basis in their bedroom, right Bob?
- [Bob] Again, you're starting to sound
like that's dirty, I don't--
- I-- your mind, it's a family show.
Okay let's go over--
- I have 'em in my garage, Brad.
- [Bob] There we go, that's more like it.
- Liz is gonna assume the position on the floor,
on your back, we're gonna supine.
Now I thought of these, I don't know if anybody else has,
but we're looking at the obliques,
the rectus one is gonna be pretty self-explanatory.
But you just lay on your back,
I like this, when you get up in the morning
you can start laying down, it's a good way to start.
And you're gonna use the bands at the ankle level
for resistance, makes a big difference on
how hard you work those abdominal muscles,
you guys ready? - Ready.
- We'll go for 30 seconds, does that sound good?
- No.
- We'll see, this thing will probably
even beep when it's ready.
- [Bob] We like the enthusiasm.
- And go ahead.
Okay time is going.
- [Bob] A point I wanna make right away
is their back is staying flat, they're just lifting
up the shoulders a little bit. - Right there.
- [Bob] Kinda moving almost up towards the ceiling.
And I've done some of these before
where I used my arms on these
and I'll tell you, this gives you a workout.
- Right, if you wanna go faster,
if you're really in good shape you can just speed it up.
But you guys feel the extra resistance from the bands?
- Oh yeah.
- Liz has got her arms straight,
that even adds more resistance 'cause of more leverage.
Oh time's up, 30 seconds.
Now I want Liz, turn your body
so we can get those oblique muscles,
45 degrees, Alex is gonna follow you.
But you're gonna pull exactly in the same way, okay?
Well let's get this thing, you guys ready?
And go ahead.
- [Bob] So this is really cool,
this is getting the internal
and external obliques on the opposite sides.
And you're always getting the rectus abdominis a little bit.
- Right, we're getting a little bit of everything.
Alex, you doing okay?
- Yep.
- Keep breathing.
Now, they're pulling straight ahead,
you're turning your whole body 45 degrees
and that gets that 45 degree, that transverse,
not the transverse but the oblique muscles working.
- [Bob] The internal, external obliques.
- Two, one, - [Bob] I gotta give
you credit, Brad, this--
- turn 45 degrees the other direction.
- [Bob] Brad came up with these, this was a great idea,
this is a great way to work--
- Yeah, go ahead, timer's going.
- [Bob] To work the external, internal obliques.
- Are you wearing out, Alex?
- Yeah, a little bit.
- You can tell (laughs) can you get
your shoulders up a little more?
Now this is one of those things that doesn't look
that hard but Alex is about ready to throw up.
And his wife she's more in shape than he is, I think.
- She is.
- [Bob] I think they all are struggling a little bit.
- We can't hear Liz
- [Bob] but she's saying this side
is so much harder. - 'Cause she's not mic'd up
Time.
Okay, take a breather, now you can get up
off your backs, on your feet.
And get prepared for, I kinda call this the half iron cross
but that's really not the name of it,
but it works the transverse.
Nope, in the middle. - [Bob] Nope, middle.
- Yeah.
- Shows how much I listen, Brad.
- Straight out in front, your hands are together,
straight out in front of your sternum,
both hands, straight out in front.
We went through these before, Alex.
- I know, I'm stepping over, Brad, like you told me to.
- Now the movement is just this
and you do a continuous motion
for 30 seconds, are you guys ready?
- [Bob] Someone out in the YouTube world
can tell us what this is called,
I'm sure it was the peel off press or something like that.
- There's Brad with technology, having trouble.
- [Bob] There's a name for it. - Go!
There you go.
And breathe, make sure you're breathing,
don't hold your air.
Little faster if you can.
So look at, Liz is starting to pick it up,
Alex, still going slow.
Oh there we go.
There's a little competition against his wife.
Yeah, she'll get you back.
Good, how you doing?
Keep breathing.
Now you're really working that transverse abdominis,
right across here, and it's a continual motion.
We got four seconds to go,
we're gonna turn around 180 degrees when it beeps.
There you go.
And go, same thing on the other side.
Good, and here we can see, they're keeping
their backs nice posture, and just the shoulders are moving.
And that's all because of those abdominals,
working and working and working.
Bob, do you have any comments?
- [Bob] No, this looks good.
- What are you doing this weekend?
They're working hard, you know,
they're just keeping working.
I'm just kidding, we got 10 seconds to go.
Good, how you-- Oh, you should see the look on Alex's face.
- [Alex] That's why I'm doing it faster.
- [Bob] Starting to struggle.
- It's not getting, the time's not gonna speed up
'cause you're going faster.
- [Alex] I'm trying to show off here.
- Time, good.
All right now this is my favorite oblique one.
- [Bob] This is the final one so they just,
they're readjusting to the top.
- Now if you are using this, I'll give them a little break,
if you're using this in a door.
You simply just open the door, put it in the middle,
open the door, put it at the top, you close the door
and then you can do the same workout
without the anchor if you need to.
- Am I still on the camera, Bob?
- [Bob] Now you are.
- Good, now they're gonna get in a wide athletic stance
and they're gonna have really good back posture,
'cause we don't wanna round our back.
We wanna work the obliques by bring the right hand
to the left knee, they demonstrate it really well.
Are you guys ready?
Go ahead.
Make sure you breathe, Alex.
There you go.
- Is this supposed to be cardio, Brad?
- [Bob] You are getting some cardio in this,
without a doubt. - Oh yeah.
Now the resistance, you can use different color bands,
you can see Alex has a green one which is like, really easy.
Liz has got the tougher darker blue one.
- I'm a father of two though.
(Bob and Brad laugh)
- [Bob] What does that have to do with anything?
You notice here, now, we talked about
that you're not supposed to touch your toes with this,
you only go down far enough
that you can still keep your back straight.
- And we're gonna turn around,
do the other side, good point Bob.
- [Bob] This is where you'll see
that they're maintaining good back posture.
You can see how straight it is.
- Yeah, they're both really, got some really,
you can tell they're both therapists.
- [Bob] What I'm seeing is, this isn't like a windmill.
A windmill would be doing all the way down
and twisting your back and bending your back.
In this case you're keeping the back straight
and you're just working the abdominal muscles.
- So we're working laying down, get non-weight bearing up,
transverse abdominis, oblique again with the weight bearing.
This really covers the abdominal section really well.
In my opinion of course, Bob.
- [Bob] That's right-- - You guys wanna keep going?
- [Bob] And it's the only one that matters.
- We got stuff to do, Brad.
- [Bob] All right, go ahead and punch.
You know, Liz go ahead and punch him in the stomach,
see how he holds up.
- He's breathing, all right.
I'll give him one.
- [Bob] I think it's assault, I think it's still shaking.
- That's just the camera, that's slow-mo.
- [Bob] All right, thank you very much.
- All right thanks guys, appreciate it.