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Article: Busting Fitness Myths

I don't really agree with the first myth. Yes sitting on the floor performing hundreds of crunches a day isn't going to produce a six pack, and I do agree that diet truly is the key to seeing your abs. But ask most fitness athletes whether bodybuilder, power lifter, etc and they will agree that abdominal exercise should be performed to keep a strong core. Dead lifts and squats alone in my opinion don't fire the abdominal nearly as much as say cable crunches or leg raises.
 
Weren't most of these 'myths' debunked decades ago? Most are common sense.
 
Myth # 7 isn't a myth, in fact, just the opposite is true: you can't bulk up effectively if you do tons of cardio. Just look at Lance Armstrong. ;)
 
As far as ab activiation,there was an article on here a couple weeks ago that stated standing military press hits you abs better than deads and crunches.
 
max d said:
As far as ab activiation,there was an article on here a couple weeks ago that stated standing military press hits you abs better than deads and crunches.
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Yeah but is the muscle turning on the same thing as contracting it? I have a hard time believing military presses are going to create an abdominal as big and as strong as doing say decline crunches with a 45 on your chest.
 
max d said:
As far as ab activiation,there was an article on here a couple weeks ago that stated standing military press hits you abs better than deads and crunches.
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Overhead press works the whole core, I feel it more in my lumbar than abs. Deads seem to hit my abs hardest, good mornings too. But all those exercises are isometric on the core, & you can't build the kind of isometric core strength you need for heavy lifting by doing dynamic exercises like cable crunches & hyperextensions, for the simple reason that it's impossible to load them effectively. Even if you could it would probably be disastrous, since the function of the core muscles is to be isometric and provide stability to the spine under loads. So it makes sense that if you want a strong core you have to train it with progressively heavier isometric loads. All that said if you have time then direct ab work is probably at least marginally beneficial.
 
Bigcountry08 said:
Yeah but is the muscle turning on the same thing as contracting it? I have a hard time believing military presses are going to create an abdominal as big and as strong as doing say decline crunches with a 45 on your chest.
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Yes it I think it actually is kind of the same. I don't think there's any such thing as 'turning a muscle on', Muscles can really only do 1 thing, which is contract. The abs aren't 1 muscle though, they're a group of muscles. So when they're 'activated' (contracting) isometrically, meaning without moving, they're contracting in a certain pattern. When they're 'activated' dynamically, in a movement like a crunch, they're contracting in a different pattern. Same group of muscles, all contracting, but in different patterns.
 
i do sqauts and ab work

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