Posted: 3/21/2012 1:14:37 PM EDT
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Back in high school, our weight room had a decline sit-up bench, which I used religiously... and to excellent results.
But was my ripped six-pack and excellent core primairily due to this, or everything else I was doing? In other words: a.) How good of an exercise is this, really? And b.) Is it worth buying a dedicated decline sit-up bench, if I can score one for cheap? (i.e. Craigslist, or one of the 2-3 used/discount sporting goods stores we have in town) |
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I did the same thing in high school with similar results. I think my chiseled abs back then had more to do with my speeding locomotive on fire going down the side of an erupting volcano metabolism than any exercise alone.
Decline sit-ups are a fantastic exercise for targeting the rectus abdominus, and if you hit it form different angles you can hit your obliques and transverse abdominus also. If you can score a bench cheap I say go for it. |
Meh....I have had great abs before(not currently ) and didn't do any situps. Abs are made at the dinner table and doing ab work may help them "pop" but its just like doing curls to get a bicep pump...its fairly short lived.
GHD would be better for overall strength building. |
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Meh....I have had great abs before(not currently ) and didn't do any situps. Abs are made at the dinner table and doing ab work may help them "pop" but its just like doing curls to get a bicep pump...its fairly short lived.
GHD would be better for overall strength building. Getting the abs is easier when its a combination. I got them a year ago through a ton of cardio and ab workouts, and now they are coming back by way of diet and lighter ab workouts. I like decline situps, but they always irked my back weird so I usually just do regular situps. |
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Meh....I have had great abs before(not currently ) and didn't do any situps. Abs are made at the dinner table and doing ab work may help them "pop" but its just like doing curls to get a bicep pump...its fairly short lived.
GHD would be better for overall strength building. GHD? |
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Meh....I have had great abs before(not currently ) and didn't do any situps. Abs are made at the dinner table and doing ab work may help them "pop" but its just like doing curls to get a bicep pump...its fairly short lived.
GHD would be better for overall strength building. GHD? 
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yeah get one and a medicine ball. sit up with arms fully extended above your head and toss the ball to your partner. have your partner throw the ball back at you, and as you catch it, lower yourself down with arms fully extended above head. change it up a lil and have your partner throw the ball to the sides so when you catch it and move the ball back to center, youre working your obliques. with a 6-8lbs ball, you'll develop pretty good strength after 3-5 sets of ten a day.
the real trick for good-looking abs though is diet and cardio. body fat tends to hide your abs. if you lower fat, you'll show abs. just remember strength doesn't always equal good looks. i know guys who only work their shoulders and arms and are flabby mofos. one of my buddies does a set of 25 crunches (targeting different parts of his abs in each set) between his weight lifting sets in order to keep his heart rate up. this way you only have to work out for about 45 minutes a day and you can knock out cardio and strength training all at once. that guy is a freak, does something like 750 crunches a day. 29" waist. i want to hurt him lol |
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Meh....I have had great abs before(not currently ) and didn't do any situps. Abs are made at the dinner table and doing ab work may help them "pop" but its just like doing curls to get a bicep pump...its fairly short lived.
GHD would be better for overall strength building. GHD? Cult-speak for Roman Chair. Or maybe Roman Chair is old-manese for GHD. I don't know anymore
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Meh....I have had great abs before(not currently ) and didn't do any situps. Abs are made at the dinner table and doing ab work may help them "pop" but its just like doing curls to get a bicep pump...its fairly short lived.
GHD would be better for overall strength building. GHD? Cult-speak for Roman Chair. Or maybe Roman Chair is old-manese for GHD. I don't know anymore Hey now I'm no cultist
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Meh....I have had great abs before(not currently ) and didn't do any situps. Abs are made at the dinner table and doing ab work may help them "pop" but its just like doing curls to get a bicep pump...its fairly short lived.
GHD would be better for overall strength building. GHD? Cult-speak for Roman Chair. Or maybe Roman Chair is old-manese for GHD. I don't know anymore Hey now I'm no cultist So one vote for option #2 |
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Meh....I have had great abs before(not currently ) and didn't do any situps. Abs are made at the dinner table and doing ab work may help them "pop" but its just like doing curls to get a bicep pump...its fairly short lived.
GHD would be better for overall strength building. GHD? Cult-speak for Roman Chair. Or maybe Roman Chair is old-manese for GHD. I don't know anymore Hey now I'm no cultist So one vote for option #2 CF didn't coin the term GHD- it's a glute-ham developer, and considering that most CFers don't use it for this pupose it wouldn't make sense to coin that term. I *believe* that the machine has always been called a GHD, and Roman Chair is just a nickname but I could be wrong. Why you guys always gotta hate on CF?
Aren't there other apparatuses specifically for Roman chair situps? we have one at our gym, and you can perform Hyper extensions and Roman Chairs on it, but no GHR's. |
