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Bad Karma · 10-23-2000, 04:18 AM

I highly recommend Legendary Abs II to anyone wanting to develop abdominals. Pay attention to "why" you don't do certain exercises and see if those will or will not help what you need helped.

While in the Army, I used to to traditional sit ups with a weighted curl bar held behind and in front. I did these to help me with the required motion for testing and not caring what they developed. Besides, the 4 day weekends for maxing the PT test was worth it.

Also, if you run to help trim yourself down. I would like to give honorable mention to runing backwards as often as you would wind sprint. No idea why, but it took me from a 2 mile run time of 14:10 to 11:05.

Push ups had me with a heavy ruck (75 lbs) doing as many as quickly as I could and then as slowly as I could. I would do diamond hands, shoulder wide/elbows in, shoulder wide/elbows out, and wide arms. I never had a problem maxing push ups with time to spare.

Can't do anything close to that now. Hey! I'm almost 32, wife, two kids, job, same old excuses life so readily provides us. LOL!

Peace

10-23-2000, 04:18 AM	#3 (permalink)
Bad Karma Novice Join Date: Dec 1998 Location: USA Posts: 231 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	Very good point... I highly recommend Legendary Abs II to anyone wanting to develop abdominals. Pay attention to "why" you don't do certain exercises and see if those will or will not help what you need helped. While in the Army, I used to to traditional sit ups with a weighted curl bar held behind and in front. I did these to help me with the required motion for testing and not caring what they developed. Besides, the 4 day weekends for maxing the PT test was worth it. Also, if you run to help trim yourself down. I would like to give honorable mention to runing backwards as often as you would wind sprint. No idea why, but it took me from a 2 mile run time of 14:10 to 11:05. Push ups had me with a heavy ruck (75 lbs) doing as many as quickly as I could and then as slowly as I could. I would do diamond hands, shoulder wide/elbows in, shoulder wide/elbows out, and wide arms. I never had a problem maxing push ups with time to spare. Can't do anything close to that now. Hey! I'm almost 32, wife, two kids, job, same old excuses life so readily provides us. LOL! Peace __________________ "Controle suas emoções ou controlá-lo-ão"