Big Chest – An advanced opinion

I what the videos of Muscle and Motion all the time. As i have said before they are the best in animation in training I have ever seen. BUT, do the know that many of their materal may be old…as I would say. Here is a great video on “chest” BUT when you start doing upper and ower chest with a bar you reduce the range of motion and the arms tire out first.  So I developed my version of cables that I feel just work upper and lower directly. You decide.

 

Muscle Coach version

Let me know what you think. fred@fredkoch.com

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Finally found it. The Ab Bench

Damn, I have been looking where to buy this ab bench for a long time. Finally one of the readers sent me a link. I had alot to due to the design and use way back in the Ironman days. SO, I find the link to buy it and go to the You tube videos on how to use it. Guess what ? All the videos are wrong. The users do not know how to use it. Check out the wrong way here. Then I give you the right way. They don’t get the full stretch, thus not working the abs through a full range of motion. This bench is well worth the money.

Right Way:

Just incase you don’t have an ab bench or can’t find one, try this .

Check Out the rest of the ways to use it on my Yout Tube page. It is so amazing to me that people just don’t understand in 2017 how the abs acually work.

Any questions..fred@fredkoch.com or see Fred Koch Training on Facebook.

The Vanishing of the Ab Machine

I recieved a question from a reader the other day about where to find the rounded back ab bench I pushed so hard man years ago and still use here. You know, it just goes to show how far behind the fitness industry still is when it comes to new thinking. Check out this video and then you tell me what’s the deal? And no I don’t know where to find one ,so please tell us if you do.

In our gym here in Norway, the Bear Cave I had to have the machine cusotm designed. It is so well worth it no matter what it takes.

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Heavy Abs for Women

This post is directed to all the idiots in training that are still in the dark ages of abdominal training. if you are not doing sit-ups with an Ab Mat and weight you might as well change careers.

Even at 45 …Ladies you can have abs.

                                    Ab mat sit ups with 32 kilos or around 70lbs…..

And yes it takes some work.

Tudor Originals-Bodybuilding part 1

Over the last few years I have tried to post some of the original handwritten material from Tudor. My mission by posting this is to show you even before the internet how a head of the industry Tudor was. Also you must see how editors change the orginal authors words as the years go by. Any true strength or fitness trainer must be aware of these changes. I have used this style for years in designing hands on programs for people. Some of the bodybuilders stories are on this page. See Thomas and Michael. See the hand written version below:

95% of all trainers don’t know correct exercise form leading to total failure of strength progams before they even start.

“With some many videos and diagrams available on the market today how do we as bodybuilders  and sports trainers really know what is right”?

And I say that trying to give some a little credit. How do you know truth about exercise form. Or better yet what is bullshit? Hopefully after reading this article you may get some idea of  just how much misinformation if out there an how better to learn the truth.

One of the things I got involved in years ago when I was writing For Ironman Magazine under the column of Muscle Coach was using drawings to illustrate the correct form to do exercises. My teacher at the time Robert K. Blom RPT always drummed into my head as many teachers do was the importance of understanding the muscle you want to work and getting the form right from the beginning. Now of course you have heard this before. Now you have to remember this was long before the internet and especially You Tube where you could upload videos of the form you use.