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The Weirdest Ab Exercise Ever (THAT WORKS)

The Weirdest Ab Exercise Ever (THAT WORKS)

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There are so many ab exercises that you-ve likely either heard of or tried in your search for a six pack, but they aren-t all created equal. In fact, some ab exercises train your abs in ways that others never will. In this video, I show you one of the admittedly weirdest ab exercises you-ll ever see but one that works to help you gain control of your core like never before. This weird ab exercise can be done with no equipment at all, making it a perfect home ab exercise or addition to your home abs workout. I include 4 progressively difficult variations of the movement to allow anyone to be challenged regardless of their starting ab strength. To perform the basic rolling like a ball variation, you want to sit on the floor and hug your knees into your chest. Begin by posteriorly rotating your pelvis to create nice smooth, rounded back. Start by rocking backwards and then rolling back to the top of the movement. All of your momentum is going to want to force your feet to make contact with the ground, don-t allow them to. Instead, use the strength in your abs and core muscles to prevent your feet from hitting the ground. You should see if you can do 10 consecutive without either letting your feet touch or fall short of getting back up to the fully seated position. You can increase the difficulty of the ab exercise by next performing a hollow rock. This is the same concept except this time it forces you have greater ab strength to be able to control the longer length of your now straightened legs. The longer out you hold your legs the more weight you have to be able to control against the weight of gravity. Again, see if you can perform 10-20 consecutive reps without letting your feet hit or failing to make it back to the seated position. The final core exercise variation is called the seal. This move is one used commonly in Pilates. To perform it, you will do exactly what you did in the rolling like a ball exercise except now you have to be able to clap your heels together at the top of the movement to ensure that you didn-t just luck out and get to the top but you actually earned it by having adequate ab strength to stick the movement. If you-re looking for a complete workout program that provides you with unlimited ab workouts to do along with a complete 90 day training and nutrition plan, be sure to head to and get the ATHLEAN-X Training System. You can now start getting a ripped, athletic set of six pack abs by training like an athlete
Date: 2022-04-22

Comments and reviews: 10


Hi guys
I'm a 17 year old male, 5' 10 and weigh around 190 pounds.
To be perfectly honest I am fat, not insanley fat but I do have moobs and love handles though I feel with the right advice and excersise I can get rid of them.
I know that this involves burning fat (cardio) and doing weights (since doing weights burns calories also) hand in hand but my main question is for when I'm doing cardio and not lifting weights:
Will a long low intensity workout help me burn more fat or will a high intensity workout help me burn more?
I know that this doesn't really have anything to do with the video but I wanted to ask anyway reply and opinions would be massively appreciated.
Thanks!

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Im in the midst of getting my Pilates certification as we speak, and this shit is not easy lol. I've done weight lifting of all types, body weight training calisthenics style and I must say Pilates is no joke when it comes to Abs. I have a huge respect for the attention to a control its delivers, and that seal exercise is the worst lol. I weigh 196, pretty muscular and the when im in class I look like a dying seal compared to everyone else. This shit works tho and it is addictive! Great video Jeff and thanks for bringing some Pilates to the forefront!
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Hey Jeff,
I was looking at the TNT programs and I was wondering if you could add one for legs and another one for core?
I am currently on the second month of AX1 and I really would like to develop my legs more. I have a hard time developing them. Other than that, I love the program, I am never bored and it corrected my posture. Also I used to have pain in my shoulder, knees and back, now after month 1 of AX1 I feel no pain at all. Thank you so much.

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I've developed a similar exercise and researched if it had already been made, and it seems not, I call it the wobble turn, so you get into a sit up position, knees contracted, hands behind head, and you lift your butt into the air and turn it left or right, so when you come down you've rotated about 20-60 degrees, it kills if done properly -, it gets me an intense burn on my abs after like 2 minutes, but then again, I'm like 15, hope this helps
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I know that jeff doesn't really reply to comments and that is fine, but I would like a bit of advice/assurance with an issue that I've been having recently. I have heard that this is quite normal and happens to everybody but whenever I'm doing workouts I find that with shoulder exercises, my shoulders click and with forearm exercises I get the same with my wrists. Is this really something to be worried about?
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This is not a Pilates type exercise IT IS A PILATES EXERCISE!
Seal and Rolling like a ball are part of Joseph Pilates' original 34 mat based exercises. He created this program back at the start of the 20th century and it is only recently that it has come to mainstream attention.
Want a strong core and yes, Men do do Pilates, do Pilates regularly. I've been teaching it nearly 10 years.

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Hey Jeff i been doing the seal for 15yrs, it's part of a yoga set from the Ningma Tibetan monks, exactly the same except after the foot clap we drive the heels into the buttock pressure point with a quick gentle kick, really great hamstring relaxation. we look silly together on the regular together and pay cash for the class. we always joke it's the only workout that really kicks your ass.
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absolute and utter nonsense. it has been proven holding the position with lower back off the ground puts an unnecessary pressure (talking 3000Nm-1) on your lumbar spine (not mentioning an isometric contraction you perform in that position) Ouch. Secondly, I don't want to feel bruised spine from all the rolling every day on that hard surface you have or I have or some random Joe has.
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i love Jeff, he's an awesome, brilliant individual, but he forgot to mention a bit of safely taught from Pilates, when you inhale on the squeeze up, vs typical lifting of exhaling on the shortening of the muscle, because on the way down in the roll, you don't want to inflate your lungs while compressing your rib cage. exhale on the rolling down and you won't possibly puncture.
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The hollow roll has been performed by gymnasts for decades, a very effective exercise with a more or less fixed angle of flexion but variable loading depending on the angle. In the above example you are lifting your legs too high thus creating more momentum. Hollow rolls shjould be shallower so that more ab work is needed to perform rather than momentum
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