Kymberly Williams-Evans, MA and Alexandra Williams, MA
Ever work out your obliques and have a sore neck afterward? Do you put energy and effort into your ab exercises without really feeling it in the targeted muscles? Simply wonder if your technique could use some fine tuning?
“Never fear, Underdog is here. When help is needed, we are not slow. It’s hip hip hip and away we go!” Who just went on that nostalgia journey with us? Give your abs three points and keep reading.
More to one point, we are here to offer a simple tip to help you get the most out of your oblique exercises.
Simple Tip Revealed:
- Vertically line up the middle of your face with the middle of your body.
If you want to sound savvy and smarticle, tell yourself to keep your midline in line from head to chest. Draw a vertical mental line down the center of your face. Do the same for your torso. If your face midline twists in one direction while your body midline enjoys a vacation on the other coast, you are working your neck. Or your shoulders. Or both. But not your obliques. Rotation comes at the space between your ribs and hip.
If you are doing the twist at the neck, well, you might get the Chubbiest neck in town. Hmm, Chubby Checker actually has pretty good twist form that engages his obliques. See how his neck is not doing the rotation but he’s got a lot of action going on through his center? This could be YOU!
Simple Tip Two:
- Subscribe to our blog and get our Fun and Fit Abs Collection free!
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Readers aka Exercisers: Did your midlines line up? Single file? Left, right, left, right, aye aye?!
Thanks for the video; always better to ‘see’ than ‘hear’.
My pet peeve when teaching oblique crunches? Yanking on the neck and then complaining about a sore neck! Duh!
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Ahhh great tips! Love to see them explained than try to read into it lol Thanks!
always love your videos!
Thanks Tara. And we even go barefoot sometimes!
Love the videos! The dog was a good add in!
Great tips!
Yes, the dog loves to wander into the shots. Luckily, she didn’t start licking me.
Love the tips! I have some resistance bands, and I’ll use them like Kymberly demonstrated in the video. I had no clue how to really use them.
This is very helpful, because I am working on my abs. I did the exercise that Alexandra did this morning, but I now know that I was doing them wrong.
Take care,
Evelyn
Whooo Hooo. We are so happy when we are helpful. I think we should do more videos with tubes, in that case.
I always need this reminder. It’s so easy to keep the body just moving and not inline.
I love your videos. They make me smile (and laugh!), while giving out great info. Thanks!
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