zakruti.com » Sport, fitness, workout » Jeremy Ethier

How To Get Ripped Obliques: 3 BEST Oblique Exercises You Should Be Doing

video description

Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1

I cover the best obliques abs exercises, such as oblique crunches and oblique twists, you need to incorporate into your obliques workout. The obliques actually have 2 lesser-known functions that most people overlook: it assists in the posterior pelvic tilt and tucking the ribs down and in, and it also assists in drawing in your abdomen by bringing the belly button in towards the spine. Research, therefore, shows that by implementing these two additional functions of the obliques during your obliques workout, youre able to achieve even greater activation. One of the best obliques ab exercises is the high to low cable woodchoppers. It's a great option as it enables us to apply weighted resistance directly in line with the diagonal way the oblique fibers run. The key here is to focus on the rotational aspect of the movement. You should minimize the use of your arms muscles by keeping your elbow position locked, rather than bending and extending them or swinging the weight down with your arms. When done properly, you should feel a strong contraction corresponding to the side of the obliques that youre pulling towards. And for this exercise, youll want to implement a lower rep range of roughly 10-15 reps. Next, well follow this up with the bicycle crunch. This exercise has actually been shown in some EMG analyses to elicit quite high obliques activation compared to other oblique exercises. But in order to maximize the effectiveness of this exercise for the obliques, we need to ensure that were implementing all of the obliques functions as we perform it. And in terms of exercise execution, dont do what most people guys and just try to touch your elbow to your knee which just ends up in form compensations. Instead, remember what the obliques function to do and put your focus on simply crunching to the one side while rotating your torso. Ignore where your elbows and knees end up and instead just go as far as youre capable of to each side while still actually feeling the obliques working during each rep. And for this exercise you should definitely use a much higher rep range of over 15 reps per side. Next were going to move onto twisting leg raises one of the best oblique twists exercise variation. Now the traditional leg raise itself with no twist has actually been shown in a few EMG analyses to already provide superior obliques activation when compared to other common core exercises. To make the movement more of an oblique exercise, we can simply incorporate a twist into each rep as you come up since this will now incorporate lateral flexion and rotation of the torso into the movement. But again, just as we did with the last exercise, its vital that you dont forget to incorporate the two additional functions of the obliques by moving into posterior pelvic tilt and drawing in the abdomen before you start your reps. And due to the difficulty of this exercise, a rep range of anywhere between 10-20 reps is ideal. But again, the focus needs to be on controlling and actively using your obliques every single rep. As for frequency and number of sets recommendations for these movements in an oblique workout, Id recommend throwing 3-4 sets of each of these into your current ab training. And as for your abs training, you should be doing them once to even 4 times a week, depending on how much volume youre doing during each session. In any case, though, try out these movements and figure out which works best for you. But keep in mind that picking the right core exercises to do in your oblique workout is just one part of the equation. Dialing in your nutrition and eating the right amount and types of foods are really the key to leaning down and defining that mid-section. For a step-by-step program that shows you exactly how to train and how to set up your nutrition to transform your body with science, take the quiz below: Filmed at: Club One Fitness Gym : Soundcloud. com/lakeyinspired GREATER ACTIVATION OF THE OBLIQUES THROUGH POSTERIOR PELVIC TILT GREATER ACTIVATION OF THE OBLIQUES THROUGH ABDOMINAL DRAWING IN BICYCLE CRUNCH OBLIQUES ACTIVATION
Date: 2022-01-03

← How To Fix Rounded Shoulders FAST (10 Minute Science-Based Corrective Routine)

4 ARM DAY Mistakes I Wish I Fixed Earlier (SLOWING Your Gains) →

Related videos

25 Years of Muscle Building Experience in 10 Minutes!

• Ryan Humiston

How to Perform Reps for Most Muscle Growth

• Jeff Cavalier

It's Boring, But It Destroys Your Body Fat In 30 Days

• Jeremy Ethier

This is Why You’re Not Growing!

• Ryan Humiston

Why Men Over 40 Are Obsessed with The 2-Set Method

• Muscle Monsters

The Most EFFECTIVE Way to Get Abs in 2026

• Jeff Cavalier

Comments and reviews: 10

dproulx222
Congratulations on your new gym. Thanks so much for all of your quality videos. I've watched all of them and l'm implementing a lot of what I learned in my own personal workouts. I'm slowly progressing. I'm 50 years old and 64kgs and suspect have a height similar to yours (around 173cm. I'd love to know where I can get a tank top like the one's you wear in your videos.
Important question: What brand of tank top do you wear? I'm a fellow Canadian in South Korea, but I've scoured all the major sports retailers in North America and can't seem to find a decent fitting tank top like yours.
Where can I get that tank top that you wear in your videos (the blue or gray?
Can someone help me?
reply

Makoto
I live with an family, so having this dietary and nutritional intake is different here in my situation. Therefore the nutritional aspects will be difficult for me. However I'm willing to stay fit and lose my love handles by this year. Will strengthening my obliques and core muscles be good for me?
reply

AtoZbodyfitness
good routine and workout video. Easy to follow. I think the one thing people tend to forget about abdominals is they need to keep contracting. It's not enough to just move the lower body, you have to activate the abs like every other muscle needs to be activated on the body. Good video!
reply

Valifito
Great job, amazing content!
Love the bullet points, anatomy pictures, details in the info that others usually miss. they are really helpful to fully understand the key points of the exercises.
You're becoming one of my favourite.
reply

mike
Looks like stretching in that manner would cause back pain and possible back problems in the future. Don't weight lifters advise to keep your back strait when lifting any weight?
reply

Matteo
Thank you Jeremy for all you share with us. Very simple and detailed video as always. Could you please make a hit video workout, like showing exercises to burn fat? Thank you
reply

Goblin
Im not trying to define my midsection, I'm trying to make myself look wider because my torso looks very long. Am I on the right track with these exercises?
reply

sport
where i like jeff, i think Jeremy presents the information and workouts in a lot better way to make it easier to understand. And kudos for the pubmed links
reply

Lydia
Guess what guys after 9 days I haven't seen the packs yet but the obliques are so visible hope to see the packs too I'm gonna stay on my diet and workout
reply

Rob
I tore my oblique deadlifting. Now I know how important oblique training is. How much oblique training should one do? Thanks for this video.
reply

Add a review, comment