Thread: 4 minute abs?

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You're both right! Tex your exercise would certainly be effective but you do risk back injury by straining it. Especially when you get into your 3rd and 4th sets where you are tired! My favorite ab exercise is to use either a Roman Chair or a device they use in some gyms(I don't know the name!) that you use to strengthen your spinal erectors(The lowerback muscles that run up both sides of your spine!). Instead of laying face down, I turn around so that from my waist up there is nothing but 3 feet of air! I do reps in a circular motion so that I can hit both Oblique and abdominal muscles in one exercise.
I always tried to create programs that were heavy on compound exercises(Exercises that worked out more than one muscle!) so that my clients could get through their workouts as quickly but as effectively as possible!

Perfect Example(This is for the more experienced so if your a beginner be careful!):

Start standing straight up with your hands to your side.
Squat until your fingertips touch the ground.
Raise your hands in front of you and put them on the ground 12" in front of you.
Kick your feet out so that you are in the pushup position.
Do a pushup.
Pull your feet back underneath you.
Stand up.
Try to do it in smooth motions and not stop at any point in the rep.

If you work up to doing 50 of these consecutively you are in good shape. This exercise works out pretty much every major muscle group in your body in one exercise!

Hahahaha!!! You're all going to hate me when I get through with you!!!

John