@@kenshin2820 if you brace your core and round your upper back you shouldn’t feel your lower back at all. Don’t extend your back and you won’t feel it bro. Helps to stop at parallel. A lot of cross fitters teach snap city form with them
And even then, ppl still don't think to train them... The most coveted muscle group. All bc a buncha meatheads said "abs are made in the kitchen." You guys remember that era when the fitness industry still promoted ab training? The Six-Pack Shortcut days? I was born in it. Molded by it.
@@CeroAshura You don't even need a program for that like if you did a leg day after 5-6 or maybe 8 hours later you can train your arms if you had enough protein in your body. But most of the people feel like if they train one more set then they will overtrain and starting to lose muscle which sounds so funny.
Bora Çetinkaya they will overtrain but not lose muscle, just make the recovery process take longer before growth can occur so in other words wasting time
Vids like this is why this channel will triumph. Imagine when this kind of information becomes widespread. People will already be fed up with the nonsense
and there will be a mass exodus from the shams. (Prob not but proportionally more people will come to the light) Accidentally hit post comment and tablet wont let edit
43:29 NH has hit the nail in the coffin here. I have skipped abs many times just because I told myself I would do it at the end of my workout only to skip it. Thats why I have started supersetting it within my workouts (after ur suggestion).
When I was 12 and a chubby kid, all I ever wanted was a 6 pack. Finally got one at 17. Went away for a few years when I stopped training in university. Then it was a blurry 4 pack for a few years lol. Brought it back last year at the start of the pandemic at 28 years old
When I was 12 I was a skinny kid. I didn’t know what a six pack was, got fucking bloated af at 16, I was wrestling and was strong but had that Kyriakos Jr. physique. Now I am no longer training and in an uncanny valley of fat and muscular at 19. We are not the same.
Nice to see someone else who uses scales + waist measurement to assess lean mass gain. If I can increase my weight at the same waist measurement, I can tell it's lean mass because my waist is the first place I gain fat. I know that there will generally be some increase in waist size during even a lean bulk or maingaining phase, but I set a hard upper limit on it to keep myself honest. And in the long run, if I plot my weight to waist ratio and it increases from year to year, I'm good. Or if I plot them separately and see the weight incline and the waist flat.
I always liked the bigger core look it just looks powerful. Alan thrall is a good example even though he's strictly a powerlifter My only personal issue is that I already have a wide core compared to the rest of my body so I need the rest of my body to catch up
Personally I'm neutral towards the six pack. My fat percentage is too high to properly show them even though they are the kind that's visible in the right lighting and such. Which is nice, never had even that before going to gym even when I was fairly skinny so my abs have definitely grown. However I'm more interested in the v-taper-shoulderboulder-bicep aesthetic. Holy 36 inches? I wouldve never guessed.
I am the same. Never had a completely lean six pack. But they always show to some degree. Specially under good light. I think that is why i never concerned myself with getting super lean
True. I think in some cases you don't really need a defined 6-pack. Just be slim and "tooonned" and have a v-taper. Still looks good. Examples I can draw from is Cooler from DBZ(or Freeza), 'specially that Final Form. Or, a real life example, the movie "The Covenant." There was a pool scene with the lead actor, Steven Strait. It was the first time I saw a person still look pretty good w/o abs. But he was still lean tho. And 6ft+.
In my very early 20s I fell prey to terrible ab advice on UA-cam. I was told everyone has abs and there is no point training them. So I developed an eating disorder and would feel dizzy any time I stood and saw ribs but still no abs. Ab disinformation is one of the worst lies of the fitness industry. The only ones with good abs who don't need to train them are on PEDs who have built abs automatically just through having hormonal levels through the roof. They could sit on the couch and still gain mass. This is another reason those on PEDs are not qualified to give advice to natural trainees.
Is there any chance you would ever do phsyique reviews and sort of offer your two cents on how people could progress or improve their overall look, I've been lifting for two and a half years - and I have quite an obscure build when it comes to abs specifically (Im currently at about 20% bodyfat trying to bulk) but I have a pretty extreme case of barrel chest and I was wondering if its even worth going for it as I could only ever get the bottom of the 6 pack to be visible. As Ive always loved your format of having longer videos, and the community around your channel seems pretty ace, I just thought it would be a better place to ask rather than reddit or /fit/
"Every single guy." Honestly, I'd say everyone across the planet, the fitness industry is *obsessed* with them. Still keen on your video about lifting and martial arts btw. I appreciate that you separate Martial Arts from Combat Sports.
I remember thinking it was impossible to maintain visible abs year round due to all of the "just gain it" bulk and cut bros on this platform . Then after getting visible abs I realized it was relatively easy to maintain.
i never trained abs in all my years of training and was terribly disappointed when i cut down. i should have never listened to the losers who preached weighted ab training makes abs ugly and widens the waists. i thought planks were the best ab exercise. i did squat thrice a week so my core was very resistant to bodyweight basic ab training. just a few weeks of weighted ab training and hanging leg raises enhanced the definition a lot.
"Side bends are the worst lift for obliques, it's all your spine and hips." The function of the obliques is to support the spine whether it's the valsalva, bending or rotation. You should be feeling your obliques activate on lifts with a heavy load to the spine, like deadlifts. Side bends are a natural movement for the obliques and follows the rule of hypertrophy where you stretch and shorten the muscle. As for the hips, you're not supposed to be moving your hips to go down that deep. I think they're too annoyingly specific to include in a normal routine but I disagree that they're a bad lift.
Carrying heavy multipacks of juice and water with one hand and bracing like I'm doing a suitcase carry have blown up my obliques even though I'm fat as fuck, it's noticeable, way more so than when I used to do heavy farmers walks when i was training strongman at 18
The primary mover is the QL muscle. The reason I do them is because it hypertrophies the QL, my obliques had very little development in that movement. Even hanging leg raisons for give you bigger obliques (any rounding of the spine with gravity will work the obliques because posterior pelvic tilt is one of its functions).
I think that abs(core) muscles are important because are in the middle part of the body and provide stabilization of the movements. you need a strong core for explosive strength and protection from injury . If you have a strong core you feel strong. you move with grace and have good endurance for complex movements in all kind of sports, so i think this aspects are better to be emphasized
I dont enjoy training abs but have never skipped them. Certainly not calves either (leg day is the best day). It's cold most of the year here so abs can be a bit overrated. Being able to fill out hoodies/jackets/sweaters is where it's at lol big chest/arms/legs/back. Great video though, more excited about strengthening my core.
Finally was able to see good abs this year after losing 60lbs. But I didn’t like how small I looked and now I just have them in good lighting…. But I look better in shirts now.
The only way to get abs is box squats and heavy good mornings. No one wants to be a bodybuilder we lift for strength as a real athlete. SIZE EQUALS STRENGTH. This is non negotiable.
@@loosecannon6142 Look at NH, he is a dude with average genetics that managed through trial and error get amazing abs. Chances are you and me are most likely average too, but its easy for guys like us to blame It on Genetics.
@@Fizzy332 There are certain things you can never change. You dont either have average genetics or bad genetics. It can be somewhere inbetween. Some people have insane chests but bad abs and vice versa. This can be genetics. Muscle insertions will play a major role in how your body will look. I have 3 abs that are clearly visable but the 4th one doesnt really exist. Do you think i just forgot to isolate the 4th one? No its genetic. Not all muscle bellies and insertions are created equal. Some have long biceps, some have short. Some have square chests and some have more rounded ones. Some have 8 packs, 6 packs and some have 3 packs This is the reality of lifting you must accept.
@@amusaafir2712 cable crunches 4x10 with the heaviest weight I can manage, cable wood choppers 4x10 with moderate weight, and leg lifts with a 30lb dumbbell
It’s true people make excuses for abs calves etc. But there are genuinely some muscles that grow more than others. Eg quads vs jaw muscles, shown pretty consistently
for obliques, we also can do cable rotations (stand up with a handle sligtly higher than your chest or another setting if you like, pull the handle down to your hip using the core, not your arms and lats)
Same here but in my case the main reason for that is that it's the only exercise in which I have access to weights and everything else is limited by calisthenics. By the way if you have time could you please tell what exercises you do, how many sets in what rep range and how often?
@@lednevnik I see! I do cable crunch, 4x12-30, once or twice a week and that's pretty much it lol sometimes i add some reverse crunch, but it's really random. I put a lot of effort during those sets.
My best advice would be to do ab-roll as a warm every day you train. That will keep your shoulders healthy learn you to stay tight and reinforced your spine. Do 2-3 set to failure and follow it with another ab exercices if you want to . Insure a good shoulder warm up for the back squat position, overhead, bench press... Chris duffin use it this way , I've been doing it like that for almost 2years without really knowing anything. If you can't do a full rom ab roll now work on it with the protocole I layed out and follow that with sliding plank or any plank variation that's challenging. Try it out men results are great
I do 3-4 sets 2-3 times per week with progressively harder movements. Start out with something simple that you can do with good form and feel your abs work and slowly progress into hanging leg raises, weighted cable crunches, medicine ball ground slams and wall slams followed by dead bugs and similar movements.
Abs grow the most from very frequent training, at least several times a week (or even up to every single day, they can handle a lot). I would recommend including a bit of abs in every work out. Either super-set them in with your other exercises or do them as a little break mid-way through your workout, after the main strength work (spending 5-10 minutes on abs is a good way to rest the main muscle groups you are training on a certain day).
What help me is training then. Some abs workouts are better than others but dont over think it just do anything abs and do It a couple times a week and you will see a huge difference. I personally do thenx or tiff x Dan or anabolic Aliens short 5 min abs workouts once a day and my abs got super visible
with proper development its pretty common to still see defined abs with 15ish bf.I feel too low bf actually serves the core bad or you only look good shirtless...flanders syndrome as they say in bodybuilding
by the way: THANK YOU ! for all your funny, interessting and unique videos. you realy do a great job on this ! (and don´t be afraid: I´m from austria - so no chance for fanboyrismus in that case. Death is a Viennese, that´s fact - but also: god for sure is no Frenchman !!! )
I do inverted sit ups when I'm hanging upside down from the gravity table. I also do body weight tibialis anterior curls. Body weight is plenty for both of these exercises. Progression can come for quite a while from just increasing the range of motion as the strength of the contraction increases. The stretch is really good on both of these, too. And since I'm already up there, it is super easy to just do them.
My inspiration was Bruce Lee. Abs are attractive because: 1. They can have multiple points of symmetry 2. They show low body fat 3. Back in the day isolation wasn't all that much of a thing so have defined abs was an overall sign of athleticism. Also think about the next most attractive muscles That being a nice neck and a sculpted lower back. All these muscles are by products of working as they aren't primary movers but instead stabilizers. That's also why you can have even more attractive abs when you develop the surrounding muscles instead of just the rectus abdominis.
Remember women are attracted to the opposite sex (not bodybuilding) Opposite sex=Men=High T=Low fat + highly sculpted. You don't need naturally high base level T you just need to regularly demand it from your body through exercise. (If your T level was zero even during exercise you wouldn't add any muscle and you would also be dead)
Everyone has an abs obsession until they reach adulthood, after that you just don't care anymore, abs aren't visible when clothed but at the same time it's almost impossible to not have abs if you are below 16% bf and have a decent workout routine.
I think a good standard is to have upper abs most the year- you can see them at relatively high bf if you are muscular. A standard for lean but maintainable bf percentage.
Yes, I would also recommend overhead press for the compounds one, also do situps with bands, that will help if you struggle with mind muscle connection with abs, at top really squeeze the fkers and slowly go back down, thats all you'll need with what u suggested
I noticed the bracing thing myself. I was so focused on bracing for a bit that I would wind myself. One time I just did a squat without the bracing emphasis and I felt my abs do it naturally. I think the big focus on bracing might come from guys that have hurt their backs ego lifting or something.
Day 38 of asking NH to make a video on how to get a gf. #releasethefrenchgame #releasethegfcharacterstudy You forgot that in majority of the people,their face will look the best if they’re near 10% BF which increases your attractiveness in general.
dont know where else to ask for the QNA but i would like to know how you get your meals in when youre waking up early to go to work and then train for 2.5 to 3 hours a day and have very little time in your day for meal prepping and also getting 7-8 hours of sleep per night? thanks
Are u saying that live handles are harder to lose than other fat? Like do you mean the deficit has ti be larger when the fat stores there? Or that your body will preferential take from other places first? Or how?
I didn't understand how to train abs correctly. I always do sets of leg raises at the end of the training and thats it. You do it in the middle of other exercises? Like Bench press, couple abs sets, curls, couple of abs set, back,couple of abs set?..
Brother i always had a problem training abs. When i squat (front squat specially) or doing any other compound my abs tend to get sore. And i'm afraid i'll fold like an ikea chair if i train my abs and they get tired or sore the next day when doing a heavy compound workout.
Your abs won't be sore or tired the next day. Abs can handle a ridiculous amount of work, you can easily train them every day if you want to. If you don't want them to interfere with your strength work, just put them in the second half of your workout after your main strength exercises.
Hello Nh isn’t training you obliques a good way to avoid a hour glass shape when one has wider hips, I would imagine them kinda closing the gap between Lats and hips and giving you more of a barrel type core??
NH you should try side bends with a weight on the 45 degree back extension. I don’t do them much because I have a hard time thinking I need to isolate the obliques but this exercise is actually pretty good I think
I have always followed abs are made in the kitchen. I have great abs you can feel. (Still chubby cant see them) my skinny friends who have abs are pissed you can see them but they are so small you can't feel them. I was worried I'd end up like that Cause they are all ripped but eat nothing and are all tired or jacked on caffine.
In LGBT community, abs are a HUGE deal. Having a six pack shoots you sky high up the totem pole of the gay dating world. It’s pretty ridiculous, but I’ll be real, I know I do want the benefits that comes with having a six pack, it’s only natural to feel wanted 🤷🏾♂️. EDIT: I also hate how a lot of these UA-cam fitness people downplay the importance of ab work to novices…it’s always confused me how these shredded guys would damn near always say that ab work isn’t necessary because of compound movements 🤔?
Speaking evolutionarily, I'd say a six pack has a negative function. As in, its not a function that it provides, but rather indicates an attractive excess. If this person is muscular, without abs, they are really struggling to maintain that physique. If a person is muscular with abs, it gives the appearance of effortlessness. "I can do this for days!" (i.e. be physically fit) I think that's a more appropriate way of seeing it. It is vanity, but it makes the vanity of bodybuilding seem effortless.
Literally no one wants abs anymore. That's why I want to work them. Abs are the most aesthetic muscle group and it's necessary to work them because otherwise your chest and all other muscle groups will look overdeveloped
you are wrong ! ok, i also superset them sometimes with other exercises where they are not involved that hard. but, and i swear that´s the truth: i also sometimes do them at home. i have a pullup-bar on my way to the bathroom and i often just jump up and either train my core or do some pullups - or both. i also every morning before i brush my teeth flex my muscles in front of the mirror - it helped me getting a better feeling for my muscles but also shows how training goes - because i can focus on very little differences. during that i also flex my core - flex and move - flex and hold - sometimes that hard or often that i realy got sore from that. by the way: i have a sixpack and i also have it year - round. sometimes with a little fat around sometimes not so much - but always visable.
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"Abs on a skinny dude are like big boobs on a fat chick... It doesn't count." Truth has been spoken 🤣
Yes so funny. Blew my mind
Facts 💯
@@chrisbarney1609 skinny dude detected
@@nolungs8652 no abs dude detected
FAAAACTTTSSSS!! HAHAHA
Started doing them every day, weighted GHD sit ups, and low key I already see a difference.
What's a GHD ?
what if i used Hungarian oak for my triceps and chest.Kindly advice
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Is this suitable for middle-late novice? Seems like its going to tax the lower back
@@kenshin2820 if you brace your core and round your upper back you shouldn’t feel your lower back at all. Don’t extend your back and you won’t feel it bro. Helps to stop at parallel. A lot of cross fitters teach snap city form with them
Abs are the most important because they bring the entire physique together.
Core is also lower back and hip flexors so yes!💯
And even then, ppl still don't think to train them... The most coveted muscle group.
All bc a buncha meatheads said "abs are made in the kitchen."
You guys remember that era when the fitness industry still promoted ab training? The Six-Pack Shortcut days?
I was born in it. Molded by it.
It will make anyone look better, but it's not needed imo
Definitely essential for aesthetics, just below arms or forearms
The second muscle group most likely for gym bros to skip behind calves.
Forearms
Neck
Glutes
This is why after getting an arm day in your program you need to add a weak points day.
@@CeroAshura You don't even need a program for that like if you did a leg day after 5-6 or maybe 8 hours later you can train your arms if you had enough protein in your body. But most of the people feel like if they train one more set then they will overtrain and starting to lose muscle which sounds so funny.
Bora Çetinkaya they will overtrain but not lose muscle, just make the recovery process take longer before growth can occur so in other words wasting time
Vids like this is why this channel will triumph.
Imagine when this kind of information becomes widespread. People will already be fed up with the nonsense
and there will be a mass exodus from the shams. (Prob not but proportionally more people will come to the light)
Accidentally hit post comment and tablet wont let edit
The day channels like NH blow up is the day all of humanity will have insane physiques
43:29
NH has hit the nail in the coffin here. I have skipped abs many times just because I told myself I would do it at the end of my workout only to skip it. Thats why I have started supersetting it within my workouts (after ur suggestion).
I do them on my push days as a break for my triceps in between pushing variations
Do hanging knee raises in cargo shorts while showing off your relatively narrow hips. It's very simple guise.
Yeah i just got done doing my hanging leg raises for the day after my second nap and bath for the day.
gotta do em in combat boots non negotiable
Finally ab training tips by Mr. Tom Platz of abs himself
Ello Yuchub
Where is Catural and Richard Hypertrophy?
@@unnaturalatrophy8073 ello
@@Loremipsum6665 leveling up their abs
Big Lenny is french now?
If there's one guy I would listen to for abs advices it wouldn't be you. Only big lenny mid section god
Tom platz of abs, baby
@@milky6191 tom platz legs don't come close to Big Lenny's Core of Power
Layers and layers of abdominal muscle
the strongest, most well developed and aesthetic core known to man
Nah he bigger than u so u jealous
This guy honestly makes me jealous. What a godly physique.
Thanks for the advice, I will implement them immediately
Hey.
"One day you may."
When I was 12 and a chubby kid, all I ever wanted was a 6 pack. Finally got one at 17. Went away for a few years when I stopped training in university. Then it was a blurry 4 pack for a few years lol. Brought it back last year at the start of the pandemic at 28 years old
When I was 12 I was a skinny kid. I didn’t know what a six pack was, got fucking bloated af at 16, I was wrestling and was strong but had that Kyriakos Jr. physique. Now I am no longer training and in an uncanny valley of fat and muscular at 19. We are not the same.
Nice to see someone else who uses scales + waist measurement to assess lean mass gain.
If I can increase my weight at the same waist measurement, I can tell it's lean mass because my waist is the first place I gain fat.
I know that there will generally be some increase in waist size during even a lean bulk or maingaining phase, but I set a hard upper limit on it to keep myself honest.
And in the long run, if I plot my weight to waist ratio and it increases from year to year, I'm good. Or if I plot them separately and see the weight incline and the waist flat.
@@2-toner Yep, over the bellybutton is the first place I gain fat and the last place I lose it.
I always liked the bigger core look it just looks powerful. Alan thrall is a good example even though he's strictly a powerlifter
My only personal issue is that I already have a wide core compared to the rest of my body so I need the rest of my body to catch up
Agree- Eric Bugenhagen as well!
I have fucking 8 pack genes and I don't properly train abs. Can't believe I've been wasting such great potential all this time
Personally I'm neutral towards the six pack. My fat percentage is too high to properly show them even though they are the kind that's visible in the right lighting and such. Which is nice, never had even that before going to gym even when I was fairly skinny so my abs have definitely grown. However I'm more interested in the v-taper-shoulderboulder-bicep aesthetic.
Holy 36 inches? I wouldve never guessed.
I am the same. Never had a completely lean six pack. But they always show to some degree. Specially under good light.
I think that is why i never concerned myself with getting super lean
True. I think in some cases you don't really need a defined 6-pack. Just be slim and "tooonned" and have a v-taper. Still looks good.
Examples I can draw from is Cooler from DBZ(or Freeza), 'specially that Final Form. Or, a real life example, the movie "The Covenant."
There was a pool scene with the lead actor, Steven Strait. It was the first time I saw a person still look pretty good w/o abs. But he was still lean tho. And 6ft+.
@@texasbeaver8188 V taper and sex lines look good even without abs
Shoulders, lats and hamstrings are easily my top 3 right now
In my very early 20s I fell prey to terrible ab advice on UA-cam. I was told everyone has abs and there is no point training them. So I developed an eating disorder and would feel dizzy any time I stood and saw ribs but still no abs. Ab disinformation is one of the worst lies of the fitness industry. The only ones with good abs who don't need to train them are on PEDs who have built abs automatically just through having hormonal levels through the roof. They could sit on the couch and still gain mass. This is another reason those on PEDs are not qualified to give advice to natural trainees.
I really enjoy your videos because it's almost going to a friend and discussing my future muscle goals. Keep it going my friend
Is there any chance you would ever do phsyique reviews and sort of offer your two cents on how people could progress or improve their overall look, I've been lifting for two and a half years - and I have quite an obscure build when it comes to abs specifically (Im currently at about 20% bodyfat trying to bulk) but I have a pretty extreme case of barrel chest and I was wondering if its even worth going for it as I could only ever get the bottom of the 6 pack to be visible.
As Ive always loved your format of having longer videos, and the community around your channel seems pretty ace, I just thought it would be a better place to ask rather than reddit or /fit/
That'd be a fun series to watch
31:19 "Glubeybolga"
The rats have 911 dialed up, ready to press call
"Every single guy."
Honestly, I'd say everyone across the planet, the fitness industry is *obsessed* with them.
Still keen on your video about lifting and martial arts btw. I appreciate that you separate Martial Arts from Combat Sports.
I remember thinking it was impossible to maintain visible abs year round due to all of the "just gain it" bulk and cut bros on this platform . Then after getting visible abs I realized it was relatively easy to maintain.
i never trained abs in all my years of training and was terribly disappointed when i cut down. i should have never listened to the losers who preached weighted ab training makes abs ugly and widens the waists. i thought planks were the best ab exercise. i did squat thrice a week so my core was very resistant to bodyweight basic ab training. just a few weeks of weighted ab training and hanging leg raises enhanced the definition a lot.
"Side bends are the worst lift for obliques, it's all your spine and hips." The function of the obliques is to support the spine whether it's the valsalva, bending or rotation. You should be feeling your obliques activate on lifts with a heavy load to the spine, like deadlifts. Side bends are a natural movement for the obliques and follows the rule of hypertrophy where you stretch and shorten the muscle. As for the hips, you're not supposed to be moving your hips to go down that deep. I think they're too annoyingly specific to include in a normal routine but I disagree that they're a bad lift.
Carrying heavy multipacks of juice and water with one hand and bracing like I'm doing a suitcase carry have blown up my obliques even though I'm fat as fuck, it's noticeable, way more so than when I used to do heavy farmers walks when i was training strongman at 18
The primary mover is the QL muscle.
The reason I do them is because it hypertrophies the QL, my obliques had very little development in that movement.
Even hanging leg raisons for give you bigger obliques (any rounding of the spine with gravity will work the obliques because posterior pelvic tilt is one of its functions).
I think that abs(core) muscles are important because are in the middle part of the body and provide stabilization of the movements. you need a strong core for explosive strength and protection from injury . If you have a strong core you feel strong. you move with grace and have good endurance for complex movements in all kind of sports, so i think this aspects are better to be emphasized
13:23 this man is a master of imagery. Let these words of wisdom sink in
When i was 140 lbs I had no abs whatsoever. Now at 180 i have a 3 pack.
I dont enjoy training abs but have never skipped them. Certainly not calves either (leg day is the best day). It's cold most of the year here so abs can be a bit overrated. Being able to fill out hoodies/jackets/sweaters is where it's at lol big chest/arms/legs/back.
Great video though, more excited about strengthening my core.
I cant believe dude like greg tell people not to train ur core
Finally was able to see good abs this year after losing 60lbs. But I didn’t like how small I looked and now I just have them in good lighting…. But I look better in shirts now.
This channel is a gift. Thanks brother!
Straight forward with no BS.
top shelf content!
Instructions unclear, im now doing 1000 crunches everyday for the next 37 days to get a six-pack
i know its a joke but good luck getting thick abs with aerobics lol
The only way to get abs is box squats and heavy good mornings. No one wants to be a bodybuilder we lift for strength as a real athlete. SIZE EQUALS STRENGTH. This is non negotiable.
Wow jason blaha?? Your advice is soooooo goood
@@aldri346 errrrrrrrr merry gerrrrrd
Das advice
So chainless
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Speak for yourself
People treat abs as a special muscle group and always go about muuh bad genetics because they are too lazy to isolate them
Its true many people use it as an excuse but abs are still extremely genetic. The genetic difference is massive when it comes to abs
@@loosecannon6142 Look at NH, he is a dude with average genetics that managed through trial and error get amazing abs. Chances are you and me are most likely average too, but its easy for guys like us to blame
It on Genetics.
@@Fizzy332 There are certain things you can never change. You dont either have average genetics or bad genetics. It can be somewhere inbetween.
Some people have insane chests but bad abs and vice versa. This can be genetics.
Muscle insertions will play a major role in how your body will look. I have 3 abs that are clearly visable but the 4th one doesnt really exist. Do you think i just forgot to isolate the 4th one? No its genetic.
Not all muscle bellies and insertions are created equal.
Some have long biceps, some have short. Some have square chests and some have more rounded ones.
Some have 8 packs, 6 packs and some have 3 packs
This is the reality of lifting you must accept.
Doing ab exercises for my push/pull finishers allowed me to have abs at 20% body fat
Which exercises?
@@amusaafir2712 cable crunches 4x10 with the heaviest weight I can manage, cable wood choppers 4x10 with moderate weight, and leg lifts with a 30lb dumbbell
@@LucasDimoveo thanks a lot dude
It’s true people make excuses for abs calves etc.
But there are genuinely some muscles that grow more than others. Eg quads vs jaw muscles, shown pretty consistently
Has anybody ever trained his jaw muscles to the same extent that bodybuilders or powerlifters train their quads??
I think everyone who has ever trained knows that
for obliques, we also can do cable rotations (stand up with a handle sligtly higher than your chest or another setting if you like, pull the handle down to your hip using the core, not your arms and lats)
learning alot about programming routines !!
43:41 "you go home, you fire up the Xbox and Hot Pockets" .... that made me laugh 👍
This Channel and information are very valuable!
Best video about abs in entire youtube
Everyone tell me that my abs are my strongest point. But no one knows that i train them harder than they train chest and biceps.
Same here but in my case the main reason for that is that it's the only exercise in which I have access to weights and everything else is limited by calisthenics. By the way if you have time could you please tell what exercises you do, how many sets in what rep range and how often?
@@lednevnik I see!
I do cable crunch, 4x12-30, once or twice a week and that's pretty much it lol sometimes i add some reverse crunch, but it's really random. I put a lot of effort during those sets.
What do you think about ab rollers?
Seems like Bloho character study destroyed NH's ability to speak 😂😂
how do u guys train abs? do yall give it its own day? or should i train them every time before or after a workout I've been neglecting my core
My best advice would be to do ab-roll as a warm every day you train. That will keep your shoulders healthy learn you to stay tight and reinforced your spine. Do 2-3 set to failure and follow it with another ab exercices if you want to . Insure a good shoulder warm up for the back squat position, overhead, bench press... Chris duffin use it this way , I've been doing it like that for almost 2years without really knowing anything. If you can't do a full rom ab roll now work on it with the protocole I layed out and follow that with sliding plank or any plank variation that's challenging. Try it out men results are great
I do 3-4 sets 2-3 times per week with progressively harder movements. Start out with something simple that you can do with good form and feel your abs work and slowly progress into hanging leg raises, weighted cable crunches, medicine ball ground slams and wall slams followed by dead bugs and similar movements.
Abs grow the most from very frequent training, at least several times a week (or even up to every single day, they can handle a lot). I would recommend including a bit of abs in every work out. Either super-set them in with your other exercises or do them as a little break mid-way through your workout, after the main strength work (spending 5-10 minutes on abs is a good way to rest the main muscle groups you are training on a certain day).
What help me is training then. Some abs workouts are better than others but dont over think it just do anything abs and do It a couple times a week and you will see a huge difference. I personally do thenx or tiff x Dan or anabolic Aliens short 5 min abs workouts once a day and my abs got super visible
with proper development its pretty common to still see defined abs with 15ish bf.I feel too low bf actually serves the core bad or you only look good shirtless...flanders syndrome as they say in bodybuilding
by the way: THANK YOU ! for all your funny, interessting and unique videos. you realy do a great job on this ! (and don´t be afraid: I´m from austria - so no chance for fanboyrismus in that case. Death is a Viennese, that´s fact - but also: god for sure is no Frenchman !!! )
I do inverted sit ups when I'm hanging upside down from the gravity table. I also do body weight tibialis anterior curls. Body weight is plenty for both of these exercises. Progression can come for quite a while from just increasing the range of motion as the strength of the contraction increases. The stretch is really good on both of these, too. And since I'm already up there, it is super easy to just do them.
Just do what our coach does, swing your entire body and call it leg raises. He has a v taper and defined abs after all.
Even Coach's clients do that..
Ok side bends are shit for obliques
But what purpose do they have then or are they useless?
More specifically side bends on the 45* back extension
I really needed this video
You will switch on the xbox and have a hotbox 🤣 yeahhhhh boiiii 🤘💪
I see the outer tricep head, good stuff NH 👑
My inspiration was Bruce Lee.
Abs are attractive because:
1. They can have multiple points of symmetry
2. They show low body fat
3. Back in the day isolation wasn't all that much of a thing so have defined abs was an overall sign of athleticism.
Also think about the next most attractive muscles
That being a nice neck and a sculpted lower back.
All these muscles are by products of working as they aren't primary movers but instead stabilizers.
That's also why you can have even more attractive abs when you develop the surrounding muscles instead of just the rectus abdominis.
Remember women are attracted to the opposite sex (not bodybuilding)
Opposite sex=Men=High T=Low fat + highly sculpted.
You don't need naturally high base level T you just need to regularly demand it from your body through exercise.
(If your T level was zero even during exercise you wouldn't add any muscle and you would also be dead)
Everyone has an abs obsession until they reach adulthood, after that you just don't care anymore, abs aren't visible when clothed but at the same time it's almost impossible to not have abs if you are below 16% bf and have a decent workout routine.
I think a good standard is to have upper abs most the year- you can see them at relatively high bf if you are muscular.
A standard for lean but maintainable bf percentage.
Great video ,thank you for that . You deserve a like and subscription !!Good channel btw you are like me with the mindset i see
is doing leg raises on the bar to the left, center and right enough for abs? I think that works them well, no? in addition with the coumpounds
Yes, I would also recommend overhead press for the compounds one, also do situps with bands, that will help if you struggle with mind muscle connection with abs, at top really squeeze the fkers and slowly go back down, thats all you'll need with what u suggested
I also do it between other "main" exercises
I think abs are also desired bc they aren’t common. Most ppl don’t have visible deep cut abs so it’s kind of like a cherry on top when someone does.
Indeed 💯
The more you work the core and do cardio will you lose love handles?
Yes
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I noticed the bracing thing myself. I was so focused on bracing for a bit that I would wind myself. One time I just did a squat without the bracing emphasis and I felt my abs do it naturally.
I think the big focus on bracing might come from guys that have hurt their backs ego lifting or something.
Def no need to overthink bracing
Trying this some time.
Hope I don't snap my shit up!
I think the verb you blanked on is “purport” but it’s mostly used as a past participle eg. “The purported belief that abs are made in the kitchen”
Day 38 of asking NH to make a video on how to get a gf.
#releasethefrenchgame
#releasethegfcharacterstudy
You forgot that in majority of the people,their face will look the best if they’re near 10% BF which increases your attractiveness in general.
>caring about women
Ngmi
This guy is a legend
Follow my training plan. Im offering coaching services for $250 per month. Get big glutes like me and you'll be getting AYYLOT of female girlfriends.
Imagine you would actually spend the time watching NH and posting these comments on actually talking to girls
@@endofhope2068 I had a seizure reading your comment
dont know where else to ask for the QNA but i would like to know how you get your meals in when youre waking up early to go to work and then train for 2.5 to 3 hours a day and have very little time in your day for meal prepping and also getting 7-8 hours of sleep per night? thanks
he had posted a video called "my diet for natural hypertrophy" I hope that could help answer some of your questions
Why doesn't his light go off nowadays?
Bloho doesn't come to attack him anymore
Are u saying that live handles are harder to lose than other fat? Like do you mean the deficit has ti be larger when the fat stores there? Or that your body will preferential take from other places first? Or how?
Ayo! “165 lbs aesthetic brahs with no muscle” i weigh 165 and lookin good.
I didn't understand how to train abs correctly. I always do sets of leg raises at the end of the training and thats it. You do it in the middle of other exercises? Like Bench press, couple abs sets, curls, couple of abs set, back,couple of abs set?..
what if i used Hungarian oak for my triceps and chest.Kindly advice
39:47 is the best abs analogy😂
Brother i always had a problem training abs. When i squat (front squat specially) or doing any other compound my abs tend to get sore. And i'm afraid i'll fold like an ikea chair if i train my abs and they get tired or sore the next day when doing a heavy compound workout.
How many people do you know that have folded like an IKEA chair the day after training abs? Not many? No ok. Try it and make a discovery.
Sounds like a weakness, address it and your compounds will only benefit
Super set front squats with hanging leg raises and you'll get god torso position and abs of zeus
@@jimjob1056 you have an anime pfp
Your abs won't be sore or tired the next day. Abs can handle a ridiculous amount of work, you can easily train them every day if you want to. If you don't want them to interfere with your strength work, just put them in the second half of your workout after your main strength exercises.
lmfao bro I look like a ninja turtle
Hello Nh isn’t training you obliques a good way to avoid a hour glass shape when one has wider hips, I would imagine them kinda closing the gap between Lats and hips and giving you more of a barrel type core??
Still curious btw
I just do knee raises in between exercises, to not have to look at my smartphone like an idiot
What do you do to train them? Is there a video where you talk about your ab training?
Road to bigger abs playlist
NH you should try side bends with a weight on the 45 degree back extension. I don’t do them much because I have a hard time thinking I need to isolate the obliques but this exercise is actually pretty good I think
Side bends the way that Ben Patrick recommends. Alternatively do kettlebell windmills. Both are very effective.
Ben Patrick uses them for QLs
And he is totally correct. It won't blow your obliques (too big obliques can look quite ugly).
I love baki
Had abs when I was doing loads of cardio (karate 4 x week). Gone now, but 10kg heavier and stronger.
wont my waist get bigger if i train my abs and obliques, aswell as spinal erectos?
Nah you're good
@@NaturalHypertrophy not meaning as in a fatty look, but for the measurement of the doctor, aswell as matching my body in size (like hercules statue)
self awareness and ego death can help in doing things purely for yourself when you wish to
I have always followed abs are made in the kitchen. I have great abs you can feel. (Still chubby cant see them) my skinny friends who have abs are pissed you can see them but they are so small you can't feel them. I was worried I'd end up like that Cause they are all ripped but eat nothing and are all tired or jacked on caffine.
In LGBT community, abs are a HUGE deal. Having a six pack shoots you sky high up the totem pole of the gay dating world. It’s pretty ridiculous, but I’ll be real, I know I do want the benefits that comes with having a six pack, it’s only natural to feel wanted 🤷🏾♂️.
EDIT: I also hate how a lot of these UA-cam fitness people downplay the importance of ab work to novices…it’s always confused me how these shredded guys would damn near always say that ab work isn’t necessary because of compound movements 🤔?
Corey, most UA-camr guys are straight; they don’t reflect “our” values. My goal now is a nice athletic physique.
Does it ? I fuck the occasional femboy and don’t have abs yet they don’t mind or don’t care
37:34 I love this
Were you thinking of perpetuate?
7:50 TRUUEEEEEE VERY SAD
Speaking evolutionarily, I'd say a six pack has a negative function. As in, its not a function that it provides, but rather indicates an attractive excess.
If this person is muscular, without abs, they are really struggling to maintain that physique.
If a person is muscular with abs, it gives the appearance of effortlessness. "I can do this for days!" (i.e. be physically fit)
I think that's a more appropriate way of seeing it. It is vanity, but it makes the vanity of bodybuilding seem effortless.
Literally no one wants abs anymore. That's why I want to work them. Abs are the most aesthetic muscle group and it's necessary to work them because otherwise your chest and all other muscle groups will look overdeveloped
I fucking love you bro
Lmao I'm doing abs right now, last exercise for my workout today
Are the glutes a core muscle?? If not i believe they should be
That's the most extrachromosomed thing I've ever heard.
If NH is found dead in the gym, add more weight to the bar then call 911!
what exercise requires bracing on push day?
Mostly presses. It's often done unconsciously but is a requirement to stay tight
you are wrong ! ok, i also superset them sometimes with other exercises where they are not involved that hard. but, and i swear that´s the truth: i also sometimes do them at home. i have a pullup-bar on my way to the bathroom and i often just jump up and either train my core or do some pullups - or both. i also every morning before i brush my teeth flex my muscles in front of the mirror - it helped me getting a better feeling for my muscles but also shows how training goes - because i can focus on very little differences. during that i also flex my core - flex and move - flex and hold - sometimes that hard or often that i realy got sore from that. by the way: i have a sixpack and i also have it year - round. sometimes with a little fat around sometimes not so much - but always visable.
could you make a video about eating disorders?
Can someone share their ab workout, whether it's for finishers or ab day? include reps and sets please thanks
Check out the Abs Massterplan for a detailed breakdown
25:45 and 26:30 I know that feeling lol
sometimes you have to let go of the abs to get a better body over all and you can always get them back with dite