3 Exercise Core Killer - No Crunch Core Workout

AB strength or AB stability are you training them differently and should you be I’m gonna spell all out for you here today [Music] what’s up guys jeff cavaliere athleanx. com you know we’re gonna look this week a little bit backwards to last week when I did that super plank and more so that progression of the planks you know how do we move from a very basic easier version of the plank to a more progressive and difficult version now one of the questions that came in a lot last week was is that an ab strength exercise it’s a good point because I like to think there’s a there’s two different main focuses of your of your abs there’s AB stability and there’s AB strength now is a plank an example of out of stability yes is an example of AB strength not really I know a lot of guys who train the hell out of their abs with planks that can’t do a real strength test and succeed really well when they’re come to do it and training to train their abs and test their abs and that’s because they’re not doing it enough of it so what’s the main difference well to me it’s about the ability to overcome inertia all right think about it in terms of benchpress if I can come down here I have a stop dead stop position and overcome a certain amount of strength here like it’s like a paused or frozen rep right from here and I can push up to 25 out of a pause that’s a lot of strength because you don’t have any momentum going into it you basically have to like I said overcome that inertia and overcome gravity to do that well if I took a bicep curl and I held it right here that’s not necessarily a good test of my strength my strength would be what could I do to get it outside or overcome that inertia without having to lean back so much but this I could probably hold for a long time this I could probably hold for a long time that’s not a good measure of how my strength is here for my chin-ups so for abs your planks are more of that they’re more of how long can you hold that mid-range position before failing not like this so a leg curl long leg raise is going to test your strength a lot more because I have to overcome again from my legs hanging down here get them up and pass the the low sticking point which is way too right at the bottom and then overcome gravity all the way up to the top so the ability to come up and overcome that and then control it on the way down and up and overcome that this is a lot more of an AB strength exercise then say the plank so now my whole thing is do we want to always this worth the strength do we want to work our stability I don’t work both guys in athlean-x we always combine the two because one feeds off of the other strength feeds off of stability the state with more stable you are the more you can push off of a stable base even when you’re doing bench pressing the more strength you have the better your stability is going to be so they kind of get feed in and feed off of each other you don’t always have to do it on a vexer sizes you should be doing in every single thing you do so again an athlean-x I don’t care if you’re doing a bent over row there’s variations and tweaks that we give you to make sure that you’re training both the stability through your core at all times and every single exercise and also the strength so now let me show you one last thing sort of a bonus time here let’s say you want to get back into the planks again let’s say you don’t want to try the super plank that we did last week so let me give you another variation take a piece of tubing wrap it around something stable come out here walk it out okay just to the outside of your legs now I already have some resistance in here now we can do plank walks out here walk it out against that resistance it’s already difficult okay walk it back slump okay walk you out all the way up go ten out and ten back next one and from here okay out punch out punch obviously we’re a three point stance here once I get this arm off the ground only three points of contact I have for those two feet my core and then this arm on the ground the right arm okay out and out work those lastly take them out here t spins get it out open it up to the top don’t let it snap back here keep it up and down punch it out open it come back down out open it come back down run through that little three exercise circuit I feel like I’ve just worked my strength a lot I can plate it it was more stability pair them up together you’ve got a complete workout strength and stability guys if you haven’t already head to athleanx. com don’t know what you’re waiting for if you haven’t already joined the rest of team athlean but now’s the time for approaching summer we all want to look good yes it’s not summer in all parts of the world but it is getting warmer look good this summer guys me proud of the effort that you put in the hard work doing stuff like that for a reason now here’s one other thing we’re going to do I talked about some new stuff right we’re going to try something new this week I want to see what your top comment is whatever the top comment is I will answer it next week now think about this I know that sometimes the top come has to be a little like I said it’s kind of a little strange use it or lose you guys make it good they’re gonna go one I’ll answer here next week if it’s a stupid blog it is stupid answering was a good one I promise I’ll give you a good answer it should be a little bit of fun what’s the top comment going to be voted up all week and I promise the beginning of next week I will answer that as well as give you another great video guys we’ll see you back here in 7 days get those thumbs up whatever you want to ask me [Music]