Abs For Warming Up

Posted by: Jon

Many of you reading this will wonder which rock I have been living under for the past few years. Hopefully, my "new" discovery can help the rest of you. This recent discovery is the routine of working your abdominal muscles as your warm-up to weight training. Brilliant, aren't I? Actually, I was reading Dave Draper's book titled "Brother Iron, Sister Steel" and his routines always involved 5 minutes of ab work to get warmed up. Now, stubborn me previously thought nothing could be a better warm-up than riding a stationary bike or walking a treadmill for a few minutes. However, in another show of my insane brilliance, I figured that maybe Mr. Draper would have just a little more experience than myself. (I told you, my brain power just can't be stopped.) So I tried it out.

I used my normal ab routine first thing. This consists of picking three abdominal exercises and using them to superset. So, let's use crunches, cable crunches and leg raises. I do one set of crunches, then move immediately to cable crunches, then move immediately to leg raises. Once finished, stretch and rest for a minute and start over. Doing this super set 2-3 times is sufficient for me.

I was surprised. The ab work raised my entire body temperature much more than riding the stationary bike like normal. Just like Dave said, go figure. So I'm sold. I am going to keep on using my ab routine for warming up. Now the bike can just collect dust. Also, it makes my workouts a little shorter. Before, I felt like my workout was done, then I had to do abs. Now they are already done, no worries, just go home and play.

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