Hey guys... I've been wanting to switch up my ab routine. I found this... I really like it, I think the only problem is that it might be geared towards bodybuilding. My goals is overal fitness for MMA. Here is the link, please read and comment if you have time...thanks a bunch. http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do;jsessionid=43F17CD564BDB2D2340A3E93BC5AA01E.titan?id=459658
Too me... nothing says athletic like a 15 second ecccentric swiss ball crunch. other than that it's an ok routine.
Having a whole ab routine sounds like a waste of time to me, whats wrong with just tacking one ab exercise on the end of a lifting session? You should be getting plenty of indirect ab work from heavy Squatting and Deadlifting anyway, but it's your call.
You know, I would actually do more like funkster said. Just tack on your superset of choice at the end of a workout. I can't beleive he reccomended 15 second eccentric swiss ball crunches though... does anyone else think that's weird?
boondock, you might want to try arms extended pushups. you put your hands out like your doing that ab wheel thing and do pushups from there. i seem to find them harder than just holding it. just a thought
actually, I was planning on doing that anyway. And no, I don't think that is too weird. I'm down for trying new things.
PLenty of Table tops..They are awesome..4 sets of 30 seconds each..youll be sore for days..Great workout!!
I also suggested using direct work too and the strength required to stablise your core when performing a heavy Deadlift or Squat is not to be underestimated. Doing that much MMA training every week his core should already be getting a pretty serious hammering anyway, so a whole extra ab routine seems pretty unecessary to me.
I don't think it's weird for bodybuilders, but yeah, it seemed kind of out of place to me. I'll ask my boss what that's designed to do.