When doing dumbell side bends...

[Jake LaMotta]

do you do them going all the way to the side and than returning all the way to the other side like:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Obliques/DBSideBend.html

Or do you go all the way to the side and than return to the upright position like:

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What is the correct way to do these? What way is better for building the obliques?

 

[BigBoyJ]

I don't think that's an exercise that bodybuilders generally do. We don't want thick obliques. And it isn't going to help get rid of the love handles, diet does that.

 

[Mr Pickles]

i agree... i'm sore there if i do really heavy squats or deadlifts

i dont wanna get wider down there

 

[phreak]

i fail to see the point in that exercise. am i missing something?

 

[Mr Pickles]

i fail to see the point in that exercise. am i missing something?

it tightens up your obliques... i used to do those when i was a mens health homo... you can get sore there so its working...

but now that i know better.. i dont see the point

 

[phreak]

it tightens up your obliques... i used to do those when i was a mens health homo... you can get sore there so its working...

but now that i know better.. i dont see the point

i sometimes see folks doing them in the gym, and i know what they are supposed to be doing, i just always felt like compound lifts and ab work would pretty much have your obliques covered.

kinda like doing an adductor machine instead of squatting

 

[Vander_V]

do you do them going all the way to the side and than returning all the way to the other side like:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Obliques/DBSideBend.html

Or do you go all the way to the side and than return to the upright position like:

**broken link removed**

What is the correct way to do these? What way is better for building the obliques?

Thats a horrible excercise that i preach to people never to do , the only time you should use that is with light wt for stretching , also that hip rotator machine is another one i would stay away from , i see girls doing that all the time with added wt and they think there losing there love handles when in reality there building there obliques

 

[mrcat]

I do think the exercise has a place in sports conditioning, but likely not bodybuilding. I've done it w heavy weights (for me) 200 pounds or so with a tricept bar. Most people seem to do it for reducing love handles, and as already stated, i just don't work that way.....

 

[Mr Pickles]

i sometimes see folks doing them in the gym, and i know what they are supposed to be doing, i just always felt like compound lifts and ab work would pretty much have your obliques covered.

kinda like doing an adductor machine instead of squatting

the way i do them it looks like i'm trying out to be in the next Nelly video :star-wars

 

[BrooklynBB]

Bide Sends

:s:ar-wars

I don't think that's an exercise that bodybuilders generally do. We don't want thick obliques. And it isn't going to help get rid of the love handles, diet does that.

Amen. I never do side bends.

Well, only to pick up shit that I drop when I'm sitting or something.