What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.COM.
We all know that no 2 ab exercises are alike, right.
Some of them work on Bottom/Up rotation.
Others focus on Top/Down movements.
Some work on the obliques, other on Bottom or Top/Down rotation.
But the fact of the matter is, one exercise doesn't have to always be the same either.
You see, today I want to take just one exercise and show you how many different ways you can
do it to make it completely different,and to make it that much more difficult.
So, if you're a guy who thinks you're the king of ab exercises?
Yeah, you might find the version I'm going to show you right now, this Lying Ab Scissor
to be really, really easy.
Do this for a minute.
Still, probably really easy.
I want to make sure that your hands are not underneath your butt, that your hands are
flat up on your side and your back is flat.
Great.
So, if you can do that, well then we need to progress it, and if we progress, we can
take ourselves up into a V-Sit position like here.
And in a V-Sit position now, obviously I have less stability of my back so I have to balance
a little bit more here which is a core demand.
And I can have my hands behind me though to give me a little bit extra support to make
that a little bit more doable.
Again, if you can do the first one, move to the second one.
I'm going to put this all together for you in one complete workout in one second.
So, one minute of this, and if you can do a minute of this, well now let's make it harder.
So, all we have to do now is get rid of some of that support.
Take those arms and put them up overhead, or in front of your body.
Just anywhere off the ground.
Now here, Key, do another minute here.
So we've kind of got this ab exercise the Ab Scissor that we're now ratching up the
difficulty level
each and every time with each passing minute.
Now is where the fun starts.
Now for the guys that are a little bit more advanced, get yourself up on the bar.
Now we've got a Hanging Ab Scissor.
And for the Hanging Ab Scissor, what do you think you're doing?
You're still going to scissor your legs but you've got to do this for a minute now.
Try to get your legs somewhere around parallel to the ground if you can or
at least 45 degrees from vertical.
And you try to scissor and scissor away for another minute until you can go to the next
version and this is for the advanced.
Now, if you can make it all the way through, this is where you're trying to get to.
This is sort of a lever scissor exercise.
You get yourself in that lever position.
You hold yourself there, and you scissor away for a minute.
So now, what are we looking to do?
Try to put them all together.
All the way on the ground, a minute.
Take 10 seconds rest.
Get up onto your hands in the back, a minute.
Take 10 seconds rest.
Get up with your hands in front of you, a minute.
Take 10 seconds rest.
Get up on the bar, Hanging Scissors, a minute.
10 seconds rest.
And then put yourself up in that lever position, a minute,10 seconds, well, you're done at
that point.
So, if you can get all the way through that, Job Well Done.
Guys, you see, it's not always just about the exercises that you choose because like
I said,
all exercises that target your abs are different.
Some are going to target different zones.
We've talked about how there can be different muscle firing patterns depending
upon where the movement's occurring and whether it's occurring from the Bottom/Up, Top/Down
or any other variation in between.
But, knowing how to do these and knowing when to step up the difficulty and when to ratchet
it down, and put them all together into one sort of plan?
That's a good ab workout and that's what a good trainer should be able to do for you.
If you're looking for a whole ton of ab workouts,
it's one of my fortei's, one of my favorite things to do as a trainer for athletes becaue
I know how important the core is, then head to ATHLEANX.COM
and get our ATHLEANX Training System.
We've got tons of ab workouts that you workout with along with your total body and all of
your other training.
That being said, guys, if you found this video helpful, make sure you leave your comments
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Alright guys, be back here again real soon.