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Rest Day

Fred Koch, Robert Blom, and Vidar Jacob made an important contribution to our understanding of abdominal training with their “abmat” work. http://www.abmat.com/intro.htm.

Learn, train, and practice the “abmat” style sit-up as well as the “L” sit , glute-ham/Roman Chair sit-up, and hollowrock. Set goals for each of these exercises.

On the glute-ham and Roman Chair sit-up learn to lift with the Quads’ rectus femoris as well as the typically dominant psoas. The key to this is to attempt to extend the leg even though it may be nearly fully extended and to lift up sharply on the shin supports. If you have equipment that let’s you adjust the contact pads, move the hip pad away from the hip and towards the knee to encourage more quadriceps use.

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Posted by lauren at May 4, 2003 9:21 AM