With Thanksgiving Day just around the corner here in the United States, you may be thinking
about ways that you're going to carve up the turkey.
Well, I'm thinking about ways I'm going to help you carve out those abs, and then show
you today how you can do it by focusing on the obliques.
What's up everybody?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.COM
As you know, here in the States, Thanksgiving Day holiday coming up in a few days and you
might be thinking about what you're going to be eating.
And that is fine, as long as you worry about what you'rere going to be doing to offset
that as well as with the way you workout and train.
Now, I said one of the areas that we're going to focus on and obsess about as we get through
the holiday season are the six pack abs because most guys tend to let that go.
They figure we'll just hit that on January 1st and try to get them back.
I think if you have the right training approach you don't need to do that.
And one of the ways we can help the abs to show is by framing them.
Anatomically, we are set up with some good advantages to frame our abs, and that's with
the obliques because they face down and in.
And we can actually help to, again, make a picture and sort of frame the abs and actually
trim your waist and give you the impression of a trimmer waistline.
So, I have one great exercise that I think you should try and do.
All I do is hang one of the Athlean resistance bands here up to a pull up bar.
So, I don't care what kind of tubing you're using, if you have handle tubing you can double
it up and hold on both handles with one hand.
Or tie it up and then hook it around your forearm.
Right above the area of your bicep here.
You know, hook it around your forearm, and then take a step away .
Now, what you want to do is, again, look at the direction that the obliques run.
They basically run down and in.
So in order to activate a muscle, you usually want to stretch it or put it in an elongated
position first because then you have the advantage of being able to contract it more forcefully.
So what we do here is, we turn a little bit away from the direction of the band.
So the band is pulling me back this way, turn a little bit away, that creates a stretch
here.
And then we're going to come in, turn and, go down.
So we come down, you can see just that move right there we can fire the obliques.
So it's a rotation.
I'm not pulling with my arm.
My arm is staying here, I am rotating and pulling down through here, through my torso.
So, obviously you want to do that on both sides but the idea here is guys, that you
want to be able to help frame the abs by giving some work and direct work to the obliques.
Now as I said, you might have dreams of eating everything that's in sight come next week,
but we all know that abs are made behind the plate, as well as down here in the gym.
It's that 1-2 combo in getting rid of the fat that sits over it, it's extremely important.
If you head over to AthleanX.com right now and get our 90-day training program, if you
haven't already started it or haven't gotten it, we'll now be including for the next few
weeks, The Ripped for the Holidays Bonus.
We're going to tell you how to sort of strategically eat around the holidays to help yourself and
give yourself a better chance, in case you are one of those guys that is going to overeat
on Thursday.
Ok, so we're going to give you a strategy in going forward into the month of December,
as we have a bunch of holidays coming up there too.
But the idea here is guys, you have got to train the right way.
You have got to activate muscles the right way.
Pre-stretch them, put all the science back in strength, get the best results, and I promise
you, we will do that with AthleanX.
Meantime, for all of you that will be celebrating next week, Happy Thanksgiving!
We will be back here next Friday with the Black Friday Workout.
Coming back again for a second year in a row.
Until then, I'll see you later, and I'll see you over at AthleanX.com