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Exercises for obliques (abdominals)

PhLAYm Posts: 4 Joined: 2006/02/25	2006/11/25, 04:27 PM What other exercises are there besides the seated twist to target the obliques?
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2006/11/25, 04:30 PM google it, I am sure you will find plenty of oblique exercises.
SFGiantsMVP Posts: 1,533 Joined: 2005/12/04	2006/11/25, 04:39 PM You can stand with dumbbell in each hand, arms straight down at your side and then tilt your torso left to right. You can use the Lower Back Hyperextension Bench and rest up against your hips and eighter tilt body upwards or use it like you would for lower back. This also can be done on a Stability Ball. You could lie on your back and do elbo to knee crunches, same side knee and elbo. Can be done just in single, straight elbow too knee or can be done in triples, elbow too knee then twist oposite elbo over too the knee then twist same side elbo too knee and repete. You can Iso Abs on you sides. Your Best bet is to Google in Oblique Exersizes or Core Workouts and get picks shown too you. I know I left out a lot more but Google will aanswer you!
SFGiantsMVP Posts: 1,533 Joined: 2005/12/04	2006/11/25, 04:40 PM LOL we must have been typing at same time! ============ Quoting from asimmer: google it, I am sure you will find plenty of oblique exercises. =============
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/11/25, 04:55 PM Actually, I wouldn't worry much about doing this. The obliques are so small, just overall core exercises will hit them. YOu are not going to make the big or show with any exercise...diet will bring them out. -------------- Maximus from Gladiator....Strength and Honor!
SFGiantsMVP Posts: 1,533 Joined: 2005/12/04	2006/11/25, 04:58 PM I had a bodybuilder tell me once he didn't like too do them because it made his waist too big, not sure on his correctness about it but it's what he claimed.
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/11/25, 05:09 PM Silly thing to say...obliques are not big enough to make a waist look bigger, even if you can work them and make them grow. I would venture to guess it was more like fat. :) To wit....its muscular portion occupies the side, its aponeurosis the anterior wall of the abdomen. In most humans (especially males), the oblique is not visible, due to subcutaneous fat deposits and the small size of the muscle. -------------- Maximus from Gladiator....Strength and Honor!
SFGiantsMVP Posts: 1,533 Joined: 2005/12/04	2006/11/25, 05:13 PM I thought he was wrong but never pushed it and kept training mine lol. Thanks again for the Heads-Up!
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/11/25, 05:27 PM Bodybuilders are a rare breed...typical bodybuilding dogma. They/we tend to micromanage everything when this need not be. Hard lesson to learn with all the 'misinformation' abounding these days. -------------- Maximus from Gladiator....Strength and Honor!