If you take a chinup bar, and hang yourself upside down from it, and then to crunches...or situps - upside down - is that at all effective? Does anyone here do it?
Upside down crunches?
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How would that be?
I could do two or three on my feet back before I had surgery and my abs got chopped, but it was hard as hell. I could do 3 sets of 30 forward and 30 to each side on my knees.
Ever try using a decline bench and holding a medicine ball while doing side to side cruches?? If you have a buddy then as you are up toss him the ball and as you are going down have him throw it and you catch it. Pretty brutal stuff. Just don't strain yourself doing it the first time, er, like i did. 
Lol I don't have a bench or a ball or anything.
I do upside down crunches all the time during my lifting classes at school, personally I believe that they isolate the abs and work them a lot harder than normal crunches.
Normal sit ups can tend to have some lower back and some upper thigh muscles in there when you start getting tired, but when you hang them upside down its all abs and nothing else, one of the best ab exercises ive found
Normal sit ups can tend to have some lower back and some upper thigh muscles in there when you start getting tired, but when you hang them upside down its all abs and nothing else, one of the best ab exercises ive found
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If you want to build some real strength upside down crunches are really good for you. i do them all the time. i do them weighted, i've used a 35 lb weight before twas pretty strenuous. fun though
go for it bro. there awesome. good results. because you can't cheat doing those its your abs vs the bar
good luck
go for it bro. there awesome. good results. because you can't cheat doing those its your abs vs the bar
good luck
It might be the third thing you said, haha. I don't know man, I've got pretty strong abs, and my back and arms and everything else got sore and my abs didn't.
I personally recommend this exercise. I do it on a regular basis
But 4 things to consider is -
1. you need strong core stability to get yourself into the position saftley. practice getting on and off a few times so you don't dismount when your fatigued
2. it will use your hip flexors, but not too much
3. and you will need a firm padding on the bar, it can be quite painfull.
4. you would need good pelvic control - some poeple may leave their hip flexors locked up on the 'down phase' and hyper-extend their lower back as they fall down.
if you can do 3 sets of 8, your doing well for yourself.
good luck
But 4 things to consider is -
1. you need strong core stability to get yourself into the position saftley. practice getting on and off a few times so you don't dismount when your fatigued
2. it will use your hip flexors, but not too much
3. and you will need a firm padding on the bar, it can be quite painfull.
4. you would need good pelvic control - some poeple may leave their hip flexors locked up on the 'down phase' and hyper-extend their lower back as they fall down.
if you can do 3 sets of 8, your doing well for yourself.
good luck
I just wanted to comment and say, I purchased one of these several years ago and OMG, I was in decent shape and it was excruciatingly hard to do a set of just 10. That device is hardcore, I assume it works, as I was sore the next day, but it's probably for advanced users with already rock hard abs.