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<blockquote data-quote="FoxPro5" data-source="post: 1882328" data-attributes="member: 562649">//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif I love these threads....just so funny to read the myths and misinformation you guy&#039;s talk about....too many **** body building magazines!Anyway....DON&#039;T do 200 crunches a day....especially from the floor as it teaches your body a faulty recruitment pattern and will eventually lead to some sort of muscle imbalance and/or back pain. Your spine has 70 degrees range of motion...a floor crunch only uses about 30 degrees of it. As a healther alternative for your spine, use a swiss ball/stability ball instead. This way you get a WAY better workout and teach your abs to be strong through a greater range of motion.Having *** is far better for developing your core as it&#039;s way more of functional movement, you use your pelvic floor a lot (Kegel exercise - yes they are important for men too), and you breath hard - which is the ulitmate core exercise!!I&#039;ve had people who did the old 200 crunches a day thing (still had a fat gut BTW) and when I tested them on the stability ball, most could not do more than 20 properly performed crunches. Point is this: start slowly, be sure to use your abs in both directions (ie to lower you back too, not just crunch you up), and pick a ball correct for your size: 5&#039;7&quot;-6&#039;1&quot; use a 55 cm ball, 6&#039;1&quot; + use a 65 cm ball.As far as the correlation between squating and benching, I would have to say that in general that is true...only due to the fact the nervous system would be more developed in a person who did regualar loaded squatting vs someone who never did any.Also stay away from all those body building supplements...they might work in the short term...but livers and kidneys are tough to find and expesive to replace these days!! Again, put down those crappy magazines and quit watching TV and use common sense!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FoxPro5, post: 1882328, member: 562649"] [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif[/IMG] I love these threads....just so funny to read the myths and misinformation you guy's talk about....too many **** body building magazines! Anyway....DON'T do 200 crunches a day....especially from the floor as it teaches your body a faulty recruitment pattern and will eventually lead to some sort of muscle imbalance and/or back pain. Your spine has 70 degrees range of motion...a floor crunch only uses about 30 degrees of it. As a healther alternative for your spine, use a swiss ball/stability ball instead. This way you get a WAY better workout and teach your abs to be strong through a greater range of motion. Having *** is far better for developing your core as it's way more of functional movement, you use your pelvic floor a lot (Kegel exercise - yes they are important for men too), and you breath hard - which is the ulitmate core exercise!! I've had people who did the old 200 crunches a day thing (still had a fat gut BTW) and when I tested them on the stability ball, most could not do more than 20 properly performed crunches. Point is this: start slowly, be sure to use your abs in both directions (ie to lower you back too, not just crunch you up), and pick a ball correct for your size: 5'7"-6'1" use a 55 cm ball, 6'1" + use a 65 cm ball. As far as the correlation between squating and benching, I would have to say that in general that is true...only due to the fact the nervous system would be more developed in a person who did regualar loaded squatting vs someone who never did any. Also stay away from all those body building supplements...they might work in the short term...but livers and kidneys are tough to find and expesive to replace these days!! Again, put down those crappy magazines and quit watching TV and use common sense! [/QUOTE]

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