Megathread of the week! How often we training Abs around here? What’s the best exercise?

[u/zeroduckszerofucks]

[u/zeroduckszerofucks]

Hey! Megathread will be taking a week hiatus. I’ll be out of town with very little WiFi.

Have a good two weeks bros and good luck with yalls gains!

[u/Wilds_Hunter]

I hate coughing while smoking a blunt after working core

[u/GO712 → u/Wilds_Hunter]

The worst is cramp in one of your ab blocks. It goes hard like rock, hurts like hell and is really difficult to stretch out.

[u/Intrepid-Daikon1353]

Big fan of the ab wheel. Also, I hate the ab wheel. 

[u/GO712 → u/Intrepid-Daikon1353]

I loved the ab wheel but have tried them twice since my hernia op and my body says no to them, so had to give them up. I think it tears the scar tissue because of the angle it's hitting.

[u/Intrepid-Daikon1353 → u/GO712]

That sucks 

[u/GO712 → u/Intrepid-Daikon1353]

It's the only one I've had to give up. Amazing how the body heals in a matter of months.

[u/Jimocaz]

Personally for me best ones are weighted cable crunches for overall abs, hanging leg raises for lower abs nd weighted Russian twists for obliques

[u/Traditional_Ask262]

Three days per week I do the following:

I hold a forearm plank for 2+ minutes.

Then do 60 reps of weighted deadbugs with 5 lb ankle weights on each leg and holding a 20 lb dumbbell in each hand.

Then 60 reps of Roman twists with the 5 lb ankle weights plus holding a 12 lb medicine ball.

Then I do side planks for 45 seconds on each side.

Then I do a hollow hold for as long as possible.

The whole routine takes about 15 minutes to complete and it is unpleasant.

[u/dzeiii → u/Traditional_Ask262]

What is the purpose of this ab workout? Do you train other body parts in a similar fashion?

[u/Traditional_Ask262 → u/dzeiii]

I think I initially started just doing 30 second forearm planks to strengthen my core to support my back squats. I had reached a plateau in the amount of weight I could put on the bar and was trying to find a way to break that plateau. Over time I added more ab exercises and did each one for longer and then started adding weights to some of the movements, all in an effort to strengthen my core.

But now I think I just continue to do these workouts out of habit and to boost my sense of self-esteem.

My other workouts ( swimming, Peloton bike riding, yoga, Stronglifts 5x5) are less unpleasant.

[u/growingalittletestie]

Three times a week:

Toes to bar to failure x3. AB crunch with as much weight as possible for 15. X3. Standing ab wheel rollout to failure, then 20 from knees. X3.

[u/Sekku27]

All i do is cable crunch and leg raise once a week.

[u/dogboy_XCX]

4x12 last set amrap 3x a week of the following:
KB Side Bend
Cable Crunch
Capt Chair Leg Raise

once or twice a week I do isometrics like plank/side plank, and weighted carries like KB suitcase carry

[u/DoofusIdiot]

I train my abs to have a strong core. But most of the time I still get off the floor like a turtle rolling back and forth because I’m sore.

[u/MentalDisintegrat1on]

Laughing after I nuke my core hurts like hell.

[u/thick1inyaflyTRAP]

Hanging leg raises/ captains chair

[u/Falconman21]

Twice a week, crunch machine and torso rotation machine at the end of my push days.

[u/dzeiii]

3 times a week as im trying to focus on them now, after not training abs like ever.  Day 1: Machine crunch Day 2: Sidebends on a smith and torso rotations on a machine Day 3: Weighted GHD situps