It doesn’t matter whether or not you’ve got seen abs or not, the power of your core shouldn’t be one thing that may be assessed by how they appear in a mirror. On this video, I’m going to point out you 5 particular issues you may search for that can act as purple flags to provide you with a warning to an ab weak point that you’re going to need to appropriate. For example, one thing so simple as getting off the ground out of your again (the appropriate method!) could be difficult when you don’t have robust sufficient abs. Let’s dive in.
One of many first issues it would be best to search for is whether or not you’re feeling your hip flexors fatigue earlier than your abs do once you do any ab exercises. For example, the ab scissor is likely one of the traditional ab exercises that folks of all ranges of power and talent will carry out. It entails laying in your again and crossing your legs backwards and forwards over one another for time. When the abs are weak nonetheless, the individual doing this ab motion will sadly really feel it of their legs and hip flexors resulting in them having to cease as a result of they’ll’t maintain their legs up. Not good.
As an alternative, you need to be sure that the abs are correctly engaged by curling your shoulders off the bottom earlier than beginning the scissor. It will act to interact the abs and stabilize the backbone in order that the hip flexors can work as help muscular tissues and never the first movers. Having robust abs will solely make this simpler in the long term.
Subsequent, when you get low again ache throughout any ab exercises you might want to cease and assess your power. This could not occur. The rationale it does nonetheless, goes again to the overactivity of the hip flexors. When the psoas pulls unopposed or in a extremely imbalanced method, it’ll act to tug down and ahead on the lumbar vertebrae due to its attachment to them. This has the impact of making monumental quantities of stress and drive on the low again which might result in pointless ache.
To repair this you need to assess how you’re hooking your ft throughout sure ab exercises just like the sit-up and ensure you as an alternative place the heels over one thing and pull again. It will have interaction the hamstrings and assist to attenuate the overactivity of the hip flexors. Additionally, by fascinated by peeling your again off the ground one vertebra at a time and inserting it again down the identical method (as if you’re rolling paint on the wall) will enormously help in eliminating the ache.
Bracing in the course of the massive lifts (bench, squats, and deadlifts) is one thing that’s essential to the correct efficiency of those exercises. That mentioned, it’s one thing that needs to be taking place robotically virtually as a background motion. Should you discover that by consciously attempting to brace you don’t simply enhance the effectivity and bar path of the motion however really feel as when you might add vital weight to the bar, then your abs aren’t inherently robust sufficient to start with and it’s one thing you’re going to need to work on.
The flexibility to activate the transverse abdominis muscle is essential as nicely. This muscle runs horizontally across the waist (very similar to a weight belt does). Once you lack the power or management to contract it you wind up getting decrease abs that are inclined to protrude although they might even be ripped and outlined. Studying methods to activate this muscle is essential to having robust abs.
Lastly, management in all three planes of movement can also be essential. I present you three assessments that you are able to do to establish your ab power in every. As well, I present you ways the easy act of getting off the ground the appropriate method will depend on having good core and ab power. See if you are able to do it your self and share it with your mates to see how they do.
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Your videos are GOLD!! Bless you, Jeff!
Well, f**k. Guess my whole life's been wrong.
Good job I’m colourblind.
Thanks Jeff!
0 flags 🥱
Thanks man definetely gonna binge your vids.
that seems not so great that he needs to use his knees to get up?
nice, just dawned on me: should not do situps with a straight back!
Why is it every DAM time I wanna go back 10 seconds the F%cking commercial jumps in and makes me wait!?🤬 I swear they can see me threw the camera
Ty for your vids.
I weighed 295 this morning and I have a big gut. I tried your test to see if I have weak abs and I'm good to go 😆
Like you said it's not how they look on the outside it's the core strength.
So this information has given me a nice confidence boost on my journey to drop 100lbs.
i couldve stopped at
number 1 when i realized just how much i've been ignoring ab work lately
My ABS are weak. when you have a APT.
If you got weak abs, then you a weak-ab 'itch!
Jeff is such a GEM 💎 (gym). Bro been doing this for years. Love this dude.
Abs engaged or not. You still need to use your hip flexors to move your legs for certain abs exercises so they’re going to get stiff or burn regardless. This is the most frustrating thing about these workouts
That Antonio Brown mention was harsh, but on point from three years ago to now.
When you check off every flag..
you can see jessie filming him from the miror 1:23
So basically I have trash abs😅
half my bodyweight in one hand? my grip strength says no
Jesse totally looks like Jake Gyllenhaal.
I needed this Jeff, great one!
"2nd test, get a dumbell about half your bodyweight" – like I'm gonna single handed lift a 42kg dumbell… maybe in 2023, or maybe in my dreams x.x
Jeff was ahead of everyone on this trend
Heres how to tell if your abs are weak: we've designed 3 tests that NFL wide receivers must pass in order to play.
so how do you build your abs if your back hurts from them?
Thank you
He make it look so easy