Do This BEFORE Every Ab Workout (GET BETTER ABS!)

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One of the biggest problems people have with ab training is that they rarely feels it in their abs. One of the main contributors to that is the involvement of the hip flexors. In this video, we are going to cover some tips that will help you disengage the hip flexors so you can better engage your abdominals and really start to carve out those 6-pack abs. 60% off all AX programs - http://athleanx.com/x/464-workouts Subscribe to this channel here - http://bit.ly/2b0coMW A simple way to disengage the hip flexors is to engage the antagonist muscles, the hamstrings. One hack you can try is to squeeze a foam roller between your heels and the back of your upper thighs. Doing so ensures you’ve engaged the hamstrings and thus ‘turned off’ your hip flexors. What’s cool about this trick is that if you get sloppy you’ll know it because the foam roller will fall, or start to slip out of your grasp. Start with the upper abs. With the hamstrings and glutes engaged by pulling against a foam roller with your heels into your legs, we’ll raise our entire shoulder girdle off the ground. Don’t NOT pull your head and neck but rather fold our shoulders up. Imagine trying to touch your chest to your upper abs, that intense contraction you should feel is a sign that you’re on the right track. Do 10 of those with the same strict form squeezing the muscle at the top. Imagine your six pack is a wet towel and when you squeeze that contraction you’re forcing all the water out of it. When yo

Published 2017-12-16 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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