DVCC Flat Belly Friday – Oblique Workout

Stephen Gray

On today’s new episode on The DoubleVision Conditioning Centre you’ll learn an exercises to strengthen the stomach muscles

The oblique will be the area of concentration
Mark demos the first exercise
The Side Plank
Work your stomach in all different areas

Transcript:

Hi! This is Stephen and Mark from TheDVCC.com

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Now, carrying on again from our DVCC Flat Belly Friday,

we’re going to give you a couple of exercises, another little routine that you can do to really accentuate and help strengthen your stomach muscles.

So, today we’re going to be concentrating on the “Oblique,” the area of muscles more to the edge of your body.

We’re going to be focusing on that area there.

So, what’s going to happen is Mark’s going to come down.

And I’ve already prepped him so he knows what exercise we’re doing. So, he’s going to come up into a crunch position, knees at 90 degrees, and he’s going to come up with one elbow to the opposite leg.

Now, with this exercise, we’re going to do it nice and slow. We’re going to control. We’re going to come up and really feel a contraction in the stomach.

Make sure you’re coming up first as well. Up and then across.

So you’re not coming straight across. You’re coming up, and then across. So up first, and then across. That’s it. And you’re getting a real contraction.

Now, we’re going to aim for 10 on each side. So that’s 20 total reps.

You’ll find this quite tough. As long as make sure that you’re getting a real contraction in your stomach muscles.

Coming up and across. So you feel that, Mark? I can see. I can definitely almost feel some muscles under here and they’re working hard.

Up, squeeze and across. Good! So you’re going to aim for 20 total reps. That’s 10 on each side. You’re then going to go into what’s called a “Side Plank.”

So, see here, he’s put his own foot.

Now if you find this too tough, if you put it – and we’ll actually put it in front. Put it there, that position there.

Now, hand on his hip and his waist is nice and high. So squeeze up a little higher. Nice and strong in your elbow.

And what you can do, if you find this easy, you’re going to drop down, and then raise up. Squeeze up, hold, and then slowly down.

Up, squeeze, hold, and slowly down. This works the QL and the muscles slightly to the outside. So up, squeeze, hold. And again, if you’re going to do the raising, you’re going to do 10 reps on each side.

If you’re just going to hold, we’re going to aim for 30 seconds. We’re going to aim for 30 seconds at the top, so Mark just hold there. 30 seconds on top. And what you’ll find, it’s actually quite tough.

I think Mark’s shaking there already. We’re going to squeeze his stomach. And make sure you don’t drop down. So don’t be down there. You want to be up nice and high in that position.

You want to really feel a squeeze and a contraction. And rest down, Mark.

So, combine those two exercises. Again, you’re going to find that you’re really working your obliques, your outer area of your abdominals, and you’re going to feel a real contraction in those muscles.

But it’s very important that you do work your stomach in all different areas rather than just focusing on normal crunches as well.

So, let us know how you get on with that workout routine.

We’d be really excited to hear your comments.

Was it tough? Was it easy? Did you enjoy it?

And we’ll see you next time on DVCC Flat Belly Friday!