Ab Routines you see on You Tube are 99.9% Bullshit.

With the new year starting any day now I just had to redue this point for those athletes that want to get better and those fitness people that want harder and better abs. Ladies…getting that lower ab bulge away is just a rep away. Bodybuilder ….what has this to do with you? Did you ever notice on many if not all of the pros on stage never really has developed blocky abs? Sure the diet brings out their natural abs but nothing that is really developed like the other muscles. Read on.

Actually, you don’ t need to read just ask yourself 1 question. Are the abdominal muscle made of any different fiber type than the other muscle of the body , which of course you train with weights. Just look at the videos.

Revolutionary new Ab Training Invention

It amazes me to this day that everyone wants to think that in the fitness industry all that needs to be discovered has been. I am so tired of hear ” what’s the research”. To add to this how stupd can people be that the abdominal muscle are made of some new magic fiber type. Sorry people they arn’t. Here are 2 examples that should make you stop and think.

 

The DB Bench Press vs Bench Press for female athletes.

Why in the world would a coach give a female athlete bench presses? Why ? Because they really don’t understand or train with the athletes. Writers and professors ugg. A Bench press is cool for guys, we grew up with it. Girls could care less. It takes too much time. It really doesn’t duplicate any sports movement and when used as a test by schools is only depressing because girls have longer weaker arms. Most schools or gyms only have one or two benches which makes for long workouts. I could go on but anyone reading this blog follows my thinking. Answer, simple DB bench Press.

TRX Training. How to define progressive resistance. Part 3

Using a TRX, Red rope or any of these rope devices is “Strength Training” don’t fool yourself. Training to failure with any of these type devices is a bad as training to failure every time you go into the weight room.

You are still training to exhaustion .

Even with the TRX a progression needs to be followed for best results

Just because these devices don’t look like your standard barbell or dumbbell don’t be fooled, the body still treats their use as progressive resistance just like the BB and DB.

Military Core Training..Design an “Ab Mat”in nature.

There is so much talk lately about cutting sit-ups from the Military due to low back injury. I have written before about what a ridiculous idea this is. Come on, if your going to carry a 100lbs on your back and be as active as any military person is you have to train abs. The Ab Mat is of course the perfect answer. It allows full range of motion for the abs with weight , like every other muscle  without  back injury. I have numerous videos on this. This video is on what you do when you are out in nature and want to train the “abs”.

This is a full length explanation of “Ab Mat” training if you haven’t seen it before.

 

 

New Section-From the Desk of Tudor Bompa ( the originals)

There has been so much information from the internet on strength training over the last years I just thought you might want a place to start when you begin to look into the industry. I sure did when I got started and that was 40 years ago. When I first met Tudor Bompa there was no internet and we had to do it the old way. By letters. Actually, I wrote questions and he wrote most of the letters. Many of these ended up in Ironman Bodybuilding Magazine, (a thanks has to go out to Lisk now.) As the industry continued to grow it seems many of Tudor’s ideas stood the time and when updated here and there still do. That is why I wanted to start this new section. so you too can see the material that was written before editor, after editor, after editor changed not only the wording, but the meanings. You can now decide.  Just click on “From the Desk of Tudor Bompa ( the originals)” in the category section.

Tudor Originals-Muscle Soreness and Damage in Bodybuilding

Over the last few years I have tried to post some of the original handwritten material from Tudor. This one on Muscle Soreness I came across the other day. with all the “research” material as they call it coming out these days over this topic. I thought you would be as interested as I was over how Tudor future vision and writings at the time were so close.

You can get the full version here: Muscle Soreness and Damage in Bodybuilding