Hi!
For those of you that do direct ab work, do you think that doing it 2-3 times a week (most likely 2x) on days off would affect my main training routine (full body, squat 3x a week) on Monday, Wed and Friday?
The idea was to do direct calf work, direct ab work, overhead press with a light weight and glute activation exercises with barbell hip thrusts with a light weight (the latter two to improve with posture). I don’t know if this is too much though.
It may take some days to get used to, but should not bother. Actually - throw some light conditioning in too and it only helps.
Just don’t overdo it. Point is to recover.
Thanks for the reply. There is no chance I am doing cardio where I live, light or not. It is hotter than the sun and the humidity is, without exaggeration, 1,000,000%
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The idea was to do direct calf work, direct ab work, overhead press with a light weight and glute activation exercises with barbell hip thrusts with a light weight (the latter two to improve with posture). I don’t know if this is too much though.[/quote]
Why? What’s your current training goal and what’s the goal of that specific work on “off” days?
I know you said posture, but I’m not sure how light overhead presses help posture. Chins, sure. Presses? Not so sure. Also, barbell hip thrust aren’t really a glute training exercise, not really an activation exercise. For glute activation, I’d go with side lying clams, unweighted glute bridges, and/or bird dogs.
Where’d the cardio topic come from? Plenty of ways to get cardio done indoors with little to no equipment, but that wasn’t mentioned in your first post.
The cardio bit was a reply to Rattus!
Overhead shrugs I meant, sorry. I wrote the original post very late here. I don’t live in a developed country, in fact it is one of the poorest in the world, so the facilities available to me, indoor or outdoor, are extremely limited.
Basically, if I tighten my glutes and stomach (not even sucking in) in the mirror my posture improves dramatically. If I work on these then my lifts will inevitably improve and I will also look better. Overhead shrugs help pull the scapulae together too which is good for shoulder health and good for posture too.
I do abs and calves on my “off” days (which are often LISS cardio days). I don’t see it hurting my lifts or recovery. I would like to throw them in at the end of the days of my lifting days but I get to the gym right when it opens in the morning and only have a set time before I have to be out for school.