>fucks up your back
What are some good ab exercises with weights? I'm tired of "ab routines" and I want to progressively overload like every other muscle.

lay down
crunch
press your heels down as u crunch
rest, repeat, git abs that's it i have solved abs :D yes i have disengaged psoas from abs and i can isohold with abs the ? spinal flexion with abs when i press my heels down, yes it's good to have perma-abs, yes it takes me 3 minutes of effort cumulatively a week :D

>what about the machine
cute - useless :D u need to know what u're doing, no u can't flex errything and lift big weights D: u need to use muscle for a bit :D that particular muscle, continuously :D just crunch and press heels down u will fucking feel yer abs intermediately :D

>>76479637 (OP)
Cable crunch

I have a Technogym ab machine at my gym, though, and it's amazing. It's slightly different... called the Total Abdominal and the foot portion moves up when you crunch down

>>76479637 (OP)
cable crunches are pretty safe until your lose enough weight to do other weighted abworkouts without hurting yourself

important do also learn to do vaccums for ddeper core activation

when doing abs think deep activation

>>76480023
FUCK that's disgusting!

>>76481303
>when doing crunch isometric hold with heels pressed down think shallow, think superficial activation
cause that's where abdominals are bot
>but muh core
is there any reason to abuse iliopsoas? no there is none
if u feel yer "abs" workout in your thigs/pelvis/hip area u r currently abusing rectus femoris an iliopsoas and u will get no abs as reward, u need to crunch and press heels down as u lay down on your back
>but u need "core" no?
no u don't need your proximal parts of rectus femoris overgrown, u will look stupid and walk funny
>>76481322
>FUCK that's disgusting!
roidous gut :D guts overgrown with roids, gut is comprised of contractile tissue, the moar u roid the moar guts u get :D and it never shrinks cause gut's is also LOTTA connective tissue that never atrophies once blow out of proportion sense and reason with roids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNhvmSmNu08
power belly ain't meme at all :D

>>76481377
hey faggot the rectus abdominus is just one layer of your ab muscle group and fat fuck get even more of a belly with a weak as TVA

>>76481515
>TVA
it's right under abs bot, i stand firmly by what i said:
>>76480023
>>76481377
>>when doing crunch isometric hold with heels pressed down think shallow, think superficial activation
>cause that's where abdominals are bot
>>but muh core
>is there any reason to abuse iliopsoas? no there is none
>if u feel yer "abs" workout in your thigs/pelvis/hip area u r currently abusing rectus femoris an iliopsoas and u will get no abs as reward, u need to crunch and press heels down as u lay down on your back
>>but u need "core" no?
>no u don't need your proximal parts of rectus femoris overgrown, u will look stupid and walk funny

>>76482007
>>if u feel yer "abs" workout in your thigs/pelvis/hip area u r currently abusing rectus femoris an iliopsoas and u will get no abs as reward, u need to crunch and press heels down as u lay down on your back
abused psoas specyfically will be felt in your lower back, it's not your spine herniating most probably during your "abs" workouts, it's your spazming and begging for mercy psoas

>>76479637 (OP)
> Jefferson Curls target the bottom part of the core and lower back.
> Russian twists target the obliques.
> Crunch and Punch target the upper abs and serratus muscles.
All of these can be done with light weight resistance of dumbbells, just go for the burn.