Just wanted to come here to say, that I've more or less hit the 100lbs lost mark and am seeing muscular definition all over my body for the first time since 2014 and your videos have informed me beyond the bro science i was doing in my late teens and 20s. I'm in my 30s now and I'd give 22 year old army me a run for his money. Thanks for indirectly guiding me on this, doc. Much love.

1. Normal rep ranges (5-30) 2. Full range of motion 3. Hanging leg raises 4. Eccentric Control 5. Progressive Overload

All I heard was "Ravioli" and "Abs", so I'm assuming the main point is that eating ravioli will give you abs.

love the editing and showing Jared actually do what you're describing, makes the video MUCH MUCH easier to follow than just imagining it

finally ab tips are that arent just "abs are made in the kitchen bro"

Coming back after 4 years of not training and eating anything in front of me, it's nice to relearn the basics from the man himself. I cant even hit my old warm up weights, but I'm in love with the process just like the first time I tried body building. Thanks for the great video Mike! I got the app, let's double down!

Thank you! I’m constantly searching this channel for an training videos. Would you guys consider doing a full training video with a guest like you guys do with every other body part? That would be dope.

Everytime I watch your videos, you crack me up with your humor. Solid advice as always, I've enjoyed learning from you.

Most of everything in all your videos I've heard before, but hardly ever all in one place, definitely the number one channel I recommend to people trying to get into fitness.

Decline bench sit ups are fantastic. It gives you a full ROM and you can hold a plate or dumbbell for progressive overload. The higher up the weight is the better, a db held above your head is the best but personally i do a db held to my collarbone so I don't have to worry about grip strength.

Great video, as always! Thank you so much Dr. Mike! Hope you have a good day!

I've been running a circuit of ab wheel outs, hanging leg raises, woodchoppers, and ab tucks forever. Pretty much hit the whole core from all directions with those 4 exercises.

Can't thank you enough, Dr. Mike. I'm just beginning my bodybuilding journey, and I'm so glad I found your material. Came from being a skinny guy with sedentary work and life, to skinny-fat over the pandemic, and I am seeing RESULTS in just a few months with a caloric deficit and training with the full ROM and controlled eccentric. These three tips have made it so easy to know I'm doing it RIGHT from the very beginning!

A bit thank you from someone that has been doing a lot of crunches with not too great result. What you are saying in this video makes a lot of sense and I will try this out tomorrow. Thanks again ! :D

Was just talking to a client about this. Thanks Dr. Mike!

I really love your straightforward approach to training myths and the jokes are awesome!

Great stuff, Dr. Mike! Can't emphasize enough how underrated eccentric control is in training. Just started your Hypertrophy App training over the weekend and I'm excited about this next step in my fitness journey 💪🏼

Props to you for all of the content you manage to put out. I am a new sub, but have binged a lot of your videos. Very good stuff.

Great exercise ideas. Thanks

What could be better than, great advise combined with well presented information and a sense of humour that is so well delivered. Thanks Dr. Mike. Getting you app next month

Gold as always. Thanks

I love your content and the logical and humorous way you explain everything relating to health and fitness. I especially love when you train people and we get to see how absolutely wrecked they are at the end. It makes me so excited to get to the gym and challenge myself in similar ways.

Cheers Dr Mike, I’ll keep this in mind when I start training abs again

I SERIOUSLY LOVE the science information given here! This helps my anatomy/physiology brain (I’m a massage therapist & studied under a Life college professor) to see clearly in my mind the muscles & how they’d work best. Thank you for your crystal clear wording. Now I’m gonna get to work to get my after having babies body strengthened FOR REAL!

Weighted decline ab crunches got me visible ab definition. Now I can crunch a 45 pound plate for 12 reps. Definitely going to try other exercises mentioned here.

Dr. Mike this week was the first week that I finally took your advice and started controlling the eccentric parts of my exercises and man the burn is crazy.. thank you for all of your advice and keep up all of the good work. You too Jared Feather IFBB Pro.

Thank you for always CRACKING ME UP. Laughing can be an ab exercise, right?

That last quote hit home 🥲

You’re so funny! And have helpful advises! So glad to found you!

Thank you thank you thank you!!! I’m finally getting my abs thanks to your desentric advice for training! Truly a master

great information thanks

I was lost when it came to abb work outs. I'm serious when i say thanks for clearing up all the non sense ideas about abb training. Im excited to know im actually training correctly and im excited to do them today!

I chuckled waaay too much in this video,thanks a lot

Great Info and absolutely hilarious!

Just found this channel. Amazing info!

Thumbnail beats any other ab workout thumbnail out there 🔥🔥🔥

I love you doc, informative and funny

Golden tips sr.

Thanks Doc, Luv ya.

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:25 🏋️‍♂️ Use a repetition range of 10 to 15 reps for abdominal training, similar to other muscle groups, for optimal growth. 02:14 🔄 Perform exercises with a full range of motion for your abs to maximize muscle growth and injury resistance. 03:51 💪 Hanging leg raises with extended legs and controlled descent can build strong and well-defined abdominal muscles. 04:17 🤯 Slowly lowering your legs during ab exercises (eccentric control) can lead to greater muscle growth, strength, and injury prevention. 06:49 🏋️‍♀️ Consider using abdominal machines with progressive loading for more effective and trackable ab workouts compared to static holds like planks. Made with HARPA AI

Is it okay to have a slight arch in your back at the lengthened position in any ab movement? Some fitness influencers suggest not letting your lower back arch during ab exercises (e.g. When you at the bottom of a V-up) to put less stress on the lower back. But then stretching any other muscle under load is great for hypertrophy. Would be interested to hear your thoughts Dr Mike

I'm sure I speak for many saying your an awesome source of information! No bs info and a great since of humor. Love you Dr. Mike! P.S. Thanks for introducing me to Myo-Reps, THEY BURNS SOO GOOD!

Great video Mike, loving our content 😊

Using my knowledge gained from other muscle groups I focused on led me exactly to the conclusion of this video when I started doing specific ab work. They're popping already just a few months in

Man is speaking total truth here. I struggled like crazy for years to get abs. Started these types of exercises and they're popping. I am 46.

Hanging toes to bar is the king of lumbar and hip flexion if done with no swing which requires brutal esentrics as he described. Once you can do 3 sets of 10 I recommend using lifting straps to hang longer and grind out extra reps at the end of each set. Good for the shoulders and decompressess the spine, especially when done weighted. Combined with neck curls and Lsit pull-ups to fold people backwards, double underhook to bare hug, row and flex your spine. Don't be too sudden about it or you can paralyze them before they tap.

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Great advice here. Stopping planks for now . Thanks for the informative topic and hilarious impressions.

This is a good one

Thank you. What are your thoughts on the ab roller/wheel?

Thank you.

Dr. Mike, really appreciate your channel and videos. Seen great results from following your channel. Might I be so bold as to ask - can you do a video on men (me) that have disastasis reci and how to fix it pretty please :)

Thx!

Definitely going to try pec planks now.

u da goat man

Hey, I really like the videos. Been watching them a lot lately. A thought popped into my mind just now, maybe you're already going to do this but it's possible to add a QR code when showing your app. That would be pretty cool for a quick download. Either way, I'm downloading it! Thank you

Questions Dr. Mike! 1). What are your thoughts on loading the obliques with weight? Some body builders say you should never train the obliques with weight, what are your thoughts? 2). Is there value in non-weight loaded twists toward stomach control, improving your vacuum, and waist reduction?

Why can’t any gyms these days have a decent Decline Ab Bench? Is that too much for a brother to ask for?

Great tips with great comedy! 😂

I’m a fan of Dr Mike! 💝💝💝

Doing most of these, but plenty of great new things to be added. Thanks brother! I do tend to use the abs wheel quite a bit, since it's quite fun for me honestly.

Probably the most important video on the internet. All ab training videos are either "abs in 30 days", "this is how you starve yourself" or "69 million crunches" If I got this advice earlier it would have saved me a lot of time. Abs are a muscle and should be trained like a muscle. If you can't add weight to the exercise it's useless.

Thanks for the advice. Ive been training abs wrong, will work on this instead

Decline sit ups are my favorite

I love your impressions do more 👍

Learned a lot Dr. Mike. One question I have is how to limit the usage of hip flexors for leg raises?

Thats not for the memes, that for the deepfake videos

Lol so funny the Time Machine closing piece

i like to use the back extension horse backwards and do real slow crazy GHDs, usually 4-5 sets of 8-12. If you use a bar over your shoulders you can isolate the abs and make them used more without the extra momentum your arms swinging can cause.

If only i understood progressive overload as a teen with 400 crunches & a broken lower back, which was around 1982. 😊

Honesly I only do one exercise for abs and its been more effective than any of those mentioned; ab wheel.

Every episode I watch of this guy, he cracks me the hell up with his jokes lmao. I'm downloading his app lol

I did boxing and kung fu for years. Did abs at the end of every class, high rep pretty constant from one movement to the next. Conditioned my abs like crazy and slightly built them. Wasn’t until I stopped the insanely high rep stuff and went to low rep with resistance or some kind that they actually got thicker.

I sometimes do weight crunches on a BOSU ball. I saw this exercise on John Meadows' channel. It give you a great stretch in your abs.

Thumbnail is godly ⚡

yep, thanks again

I'm reminded of Mike Mentzer and Arthur Jones here. They were both huge advocates for eccentric control!

Good video

Hey Dr. Mike, keep up the great work! Also, I'm curious what your thoughts are on Hany Rambod's FST-7.

Thanks 😂 Dr! For the free meme!

You Should do a review on Léana Deeb “The ultimate Lower Body Workout - Leg day” 🔥🔥

Top 3 ab moves, ab roller, ab matt crunches, hanging leg raises

The model on the thumbnail has insane muscles...and the funniest haircut I've ever seen!😂

I love how much of a spaz Dr Mike is😂

ey dr. Mike, what do you think about locking your feet under the end of a bench and doing deficit crunches (from hyperextended back to the top of a crunch) off the other end

Thx

I do abs inbetween while i do warm up . Just volume . Works great and saves time

I would love to see this guys opinion on building big neck muscles

The lady impression 😂 I love learning from you but I think that I love the jokes on the videos the most

I have pretty blocky abs and they've grown the most from cable crunches 8-15 reps (can't go any lower reps because I'll float off the ground, already using a gym pin) and hanging leg raises. I rarely see anyone doing weighted ab movements, it's crazy. Everyone was doing them 20 years ago, but now everyone is afraid of having a big waist or is indoctrinated by the functional movement crowd, maybe? Having big, blocky abs makes you look leaner even when you're not that lean.

Mike, I love your bear traps man :D

Hahaha "it was your face!" Ty for the info and laughs ^_^

Lol love these vids

The end of this video started to feel like we're all Dr Mike's therapists. And I'm all here for it

As any other muscle group: normal rep anges, full ROM, control eccentric, progressively overload. Great exercise: hanging leg raise. Dr. Mike says if you can go from dead hang to upwards V with great form and control all the way down for 10 reps, you're mad strong.

I've had 2 surgeries for inguinal hernias, one one left and one on the right side. So I have some pain doing any exercises for lower abs as it puts some strain on the surgical mesh. What other exercises can I do that wouldn't risk tearing the mesh? Thank you. Great video as always.

Great topic. If anyone else out there has had lower back issues, proceed with caution. My go to here for midsection work is the back expert, Stuart McGill. His most recent text is Back Mechanic. Did I see the Bruce Lee move, the Dragon Flag? Respect!

Did not expect to get run over by a time machine when watching this video but boy did it flatten me. Ouch! Thanks for the video, informative as always 👍

Hey dr. Mike, I have a question. Nearly 2 years ago i got crohn's disease and ever since when I work abs I get muscle cramps just after 1 or 2 sets. Any tips ?

I've always had good abs without training them just by getting very lean and mostly ignored them for years. Now I'm starting to take them a bit more serious just to see what happens, using Weighted Situps, Hanging Leg Raises and Cable Crunches.