AB EXERCISE & AB WORKOUT - Intense Anti Gravity Ab Exercises

More Cool Ab Exercises - http://athleanx.com/x/antigravityabs

Home sweet home back in the Xbox and ready to get right down to business. [Music] What’s up everybody? Hey, Jeff Cavalier back here, athletex. com. And God, does it feel good to be back in the Xbox.

It was only a couple weeks ago that I left you with the walk, doing the walk, the walk. Well, after that, my appendix said goodbye to me. And uh I was out of commission for a couple weeks. But here I am back and ready to go. And some people are like, “Geez, you think you’re taking a little bit, you know, too soon?

” And I say, “No, because if you’re training the right way, you’re strengthening yourself. It all starts from the core. And if you can have a strong core, even if they cut through the muscles down there, you can bounce back quickly because you’re fortified for that type of stuff, whether you’re coming back from an injury, surgery, or a long layoff. And I firmly firmly believe that. So, what I wanted to do today was show you another cool core exercise that you can incorporate and explain to you the different ways that the core works and why this is a great way to train it.

To show you that again, all of your exercises start and finish with the core. So, if you can keep your core strong, you can bounce back a lot quicker. All right, the first thing we do here is I set it up on a cable machine. But don’t be intimidated by that because all you need are a couple bands that you can hang over your pull-up bar and you can do the same exact thing. So, you set the resistance up.

Okay, you’re going to come down into a push-up position. So, you’re going to probably have to sneak around the side once I get started here to see exactly what I’m doing, but I’m going to get down into a push-up position. is I have to really push hard to get down here and here. Now, once you try this, you’re going to see right away that your core starts firing up just because you have to hold these bands down uh onto the ground, right? Because they want to pull me up that way, I have to flex the core to hold myself in position.

Now, let’s clear up one sort of a uh of a myth that’s out there. Um, everyone likes to jump on the bandwagon and say you can’t do uh crunches because they’re not they’re bad they’re a bad exercise for your abs. That’s totally false. What one of the main things that your core does is it flexes the spine. Okay?

So whether you’re on your back or whether you’re, you know, on your knees here and you’re flexing your spine, that’s one of the main things that the abs are responsible for. So if anybody tells you stop doing crunches, it’s not that’s that’s a that’s a myth. Now, just crunches would be the worst thing you can do. But stop doing crunches all together. That’s wrong.

So, what you want to do is you want to get into the position you actually are flexing the the uh the the back in order to get into this position here. Okay. Now, once you’re there, the first the way the drill starts is you want to just raise one arm out in front of you. Okay. So that makes it harder because I want to extend through the back, but I have to flex the back the abs to keep me there.

So raise up and raise up and you’re just going to be doing alternate raises. Okay. Okay. But now here’s where it gets fun. If I let this thing go out to my side, now I have to control rotation here and then generate rotation to get me back down to the ground.

Okay, let it go up. It wants to snap me right up. Okay, but I have to control rotation. That’s job number two of the abs is to control and decelerate this rotation here. Why?

Because as it takes me this way, I have to contract the abs and rotate back down to the ground. Obviously, same thing here. And I have to contract back down to the ground. Up to the side, contract down to the ground. So now you can lift out and then up and down.

Out and then up down. Now, I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been out of the gym for a week and a half or what, or if it’s just this exercise, but it is killing my abs in a good way, of course. Okay, so point is, guys, I always say you have to fortify your core and everything you do. And that’s what we focus on in Athletics X. Every single exercise in the program works on getting your core involved so that it integrates upper body and lower body.

Not only does it make your core stronger, but it also makes the other muscle groups work together so that you become stronger in every single lift and overall increase your muscle size and strength. It’s very key. But most of all, that strong core allows you to bounce back. Whether it’s a layoff from an injury, a layoff from a surgery, or just being out of the gym, keeping that core strong is essential to what you’re doing. Guys, thank you.

It feels great to be back. I hope you enjoyed the live Q&A. If you didn’t, I’ll put a link to it over here. Um, and make sure you check that out. We did that last week on YouTube.

We’ll be doing more of those for sure, but for now, it just feels good to be back in the gym. I’m getting back my strength and uh more and more challenging things to come. Taking my RX supplements, too. A very key component of recovery, guys. I preach that all the time.

Recovery, recovery, recovery. I’m not just being an idiot here in the gym doing exercises. I’m making sure that I’m eating right and that I’m resting and doing everything properly and taking everything, you know, taking my supplements. So guys, I will see you back here in 7 days. And uh again, hopefully feeling even stronger and better and increasing the challenge even more for not only me here, but for you as well.

In the meantime, I’ll see you over at athletex. com. Thank you. [Music] Yeah. Heat.