Good job getting the reservation!
Too bad you didn’t realize who it was sooner, you could have flipped her table over and had a nice laugh and photo.
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Absolute genius.
I don’t remember which one it was, but I don’t think it was that one or I would have figured it out. I was more embarrassed that I knew at all.
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Family Life!
I’m up to date with Housewives and I know every line of every episode of Peppa Pig but I missed Bucs/Chiefs last night.
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I tried the ab where again yesterday using the form above and felt it all in my right shoulder 
think I might have a stability issue there!
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Throwing it in the bin is always an option!
If you want to keep working on it then you could always regress to swiss ball roll outs and stir the pots to work on the stability.
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“How often do you train abs?” should be Chris Shugarts next Instagram question (or wherever it is that he posts them).
Personally I stupidly train them about once a month when just killing time in the gym or wanting to stay in the gym a bit longer to chat with a friend I haven’t seen in a while. I sometimes plan hanging leg raises but sack them off. I then get severe confusion deciding whats IBS pain and whats DOMs.
I feel that squats, deadlifts, OHPs, and chins train my core enough right now and are thus are more important to focus on. If I ever feel that my core is a weak point hindering my progression though, I’ll no doubt add some more structured work in for them.
I’m totally with you when it comes to slacking ab work. I know it’s extremely important for both increasing all of your lifts, in addition to preventing injuries, but goddamn it’s boring.
To combat this, I’ve literally positioned all my ab work as the first exercise. I can only speak for myself, but I’ve found this to be very productive as it serves as a “warm up” and reminds me to a much greater extent the absolutely necessity of bracing when squatting, deadlifting, etc.
Does that make sense?
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Having ab work set as ‘warmup’ stuff is the only way to get me to do it; this makes perfect sense.
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Good one! Will do.
Thibaudeau taught me something about ab training years ago that really resonated. He said he tries to go to failure in as few reps as possible. He’s so strict and he’s contracting so hard throughout the rep that doesn’t need high reps or more load (unless adding weight is absolutely necessary).
With that in mind, I now fail at around 10 reps on the cable crunch, where I used to be able to get 15+ with the same weight. Abs are fried. Nothing left. Zero arm involvement holding the rope. It was his mental cue that changed everything: fail in as few reps as possible. If you can get 12+, Thibaudeau says, you’re probably cheating or don’t have a good mind-muscle connection.
This is gold:
This is a good one too, even though it combines a BOSU ball and a smith machine:
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I like to superset my main lifts with 20 reps of bodyweight ab work.
It’s not enough to fatigue me but it does help remind me what “tight” feels like and I’ve noticed benefits.
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Umm, no thanks. Repping out 4 plates on squats is hard enough without having tired abs lol.
I like @anna_5588’s method. It doesn’t have to be between squats, or lifts I “care” about, but I’ll usually do abs in between Hypers or whatever other garbage I’m doing over that way. Otherwise I’ll just take like 20 second rest breaks to get it over with.
20 reps of bodyweight ab work tiring out your abs too much for squats is a sign that MORE ab work is needed.
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Sure, but let’s not sweep the bad leg before the match, you know?
If your whack leg is vulnerable to the sweep, you must Defend 10,000 sweep kicks before the fight.
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OR, you just keep squatting 2x bodyweight for reps and work abs at a time that it doesn’t interfere with your main work.
I legit prefer to train behind the 8-ball more than I prefer to be in front of it. I actually find I get hurt MORE often when I’m in a good way.
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