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hello everyone my name is Max and I'm a
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my pro team personal trainer today we're
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going to be talking about abdominal
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exercises using equipment
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the points we want to focus on are
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number one our machines effective when
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training abdominal muscles number two
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are there other exercises that work ABS
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specifically without doing abs and
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finally number three is the phrase doing
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abs just a myth let's get into our first
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point are machines effective when
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training abdominal muscles this depends
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partly on how broadly we interpret the
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word machine and what we include within
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this definition but yes machines Can Be
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an Effective tool to use when training
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most areas of our body and our abdominal
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muscles are no exception to this this is
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because machines allow us to isolate
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specific muscles more easily that we
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wish to focus on whilst also adding
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weight or resistance into that movement
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personally for myself and my clients my
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preference to do this is by using a
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cable machine because you can easily
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change the angle of where you are
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beginning your movement from just by
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adjusting the height of that cable
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attachment meaning you can hit all the
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different areas of your core with that
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one machine through a few different
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exercises such as things like cable
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crunches cable lifts cable chops point
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two are there other exercises that work
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abs without specifically doing abs to
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put it very simply yes our abdominals
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swamp a large part of what you'll know
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is our core and we use our coat in so
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many different exercises that the
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muscles within this group including our
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abdominals get worked quite frequently
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indirectly compound exercises which use
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multiple muscle groups such as squats
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and deadlifts are great examples of this
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let's look at the squat for instance the
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rectus abdominis and the obliques
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contract to a proper alignment of the
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back in other words your abs tighten to
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help maintain a straight back whilst
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performing a squat this engagement of
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the abdominals is working them and in
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turn will help to strengthen them now to
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finish this off with all that being said
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is doing abs just amid them this again
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depends on your interpretation of the
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question but no to me doing abs is
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having some form of focus on our
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abdominal muscles within our training
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now that doesn't mean dedicating a full
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workout solely on this group of muscles
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as the vast majority of us simply do not
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have the time to do this and that amount
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of work is not going to be optimal for
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our training as a whole or even needed
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abdominals need to be trained like any
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other muscle although they can be
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indirectly hit during compound exercises
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such as squats as we have already
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discussed we are going to get much
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better results on our abdominal muscle
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strength and development by targeting
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them specifically the same ways we do
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with say our chest or our quads this can
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be very simply done by once or twice a
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week adding in some abdominal focused
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exercises such as crunches cable chops
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within a couple of our current workouts
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but ensuring that they have the required
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rest before then training them again to
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allow them time to properly recover like
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we do with any other body part I for
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instance will add in core work twice a
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week once at the end of my first workout
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that week and once at the end of my
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third or fourth okay everyone that just
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about covers everything today thank you
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for joining me make sure you all like
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