Breathing + Position = Weights for your Abs.
Don’t believe me?
Try this.
Kind of strict Toes To Bar. I can do like 30 of these. Not bragging. It doesn’t matter. They just train hip flexor endurance. Stupid. Boring.
NOW. Get into a hollow hang position with a foam roller between your ankles and execute a PRI/Russian Breathing Strategy – exhale slowly and viciously with the tongue on the roof of your mouth and brace like you are going to get kicked in the liver by Tommy Reardon. You will feel your inner abs get ridculously tight. Now pull your sphincters/pelvic diaphragm up – AKA act like you are preventing yourself both peeing and pooping. Giggles. Now, squeeze the shit out of the foam roller. Finally, holding your exhale try to move your legs without losing this position.
Yea that is ab work. Suck it up and work for the next year to do 5 perfect reps.
When I was a wee lad I saw a 120 pound lady hold a plank for 7 minutes. She was weak, puffy, and soft. 100s of reps of GHD situps or Kipping Toes To Bar may be even worse for people that want to lift heavy shit. If you want your midline to be strong and hold up to anything stop using the word core. You also must learn how to brace and create tension. If you are lifter breathing under load is one of the biggest aspects you are leaving on the table, if you are fighter learn to breathe behind the shield. Yet, you can not learn this while lifting or fighting, you have to practice and perfect it outside of your sport. Enjoy the ride. Make it suck.
“Don’t see how many reps you can do, see how few you can do!”
-Steve Maxwell
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