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I never trained my abs much directly but would add in a few decline bench crunches or ab rope crunches here and there. But I would give it my all on squats, deads and bench press and it indirectly trained my core and abdominals.
Due to injuries I can not go balls to the walls on the compound lifts anymore. I have been working with a few athletic trainers, and almost universally everyone says that ab exercises done by the average gym rat trains your hip flexors more than the abs. Instead they prefer dead bugs, planks, quad superman etc..
People that have more knowledge regarding this, can you tell me if this is true? Does that mean all the gyms stocked with ab benches, and the bench where you crunch while sitting and your hands at shoulder level etc. are useless and I shouldn't waste my time.
I imagine the truth is somewhere in between..
I enjoy the ab exercises at the gym more, but if they are truly useless than I will start doing more deadbugs, planks.
Due to injuries I can not go balls to the walls on the compound lifts anymore. I have been working with a few athletic trainers, and almost universally everyone says that ab exercises done by the average gym rat trains your hip flexors more than the abs. Instead they prefer dead bugs, planks, quad superman etc..
People that have more knowledge regarding this, can you tell me if this is true? Does that mean all the gyms stocked with ab benches, and the bench where you crunch while sitting and your hands at shoulder level etc. are useless and I shouldn't waste my time.
I imagine the truth is somewhere in between..
I enjoy the ab exercises at the gym more, but if they are truly useless than I will start doing more deadbugs, planks.