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The Other Ab Exercise: Side Bends

The Other Ab Exercise: Side Bends

  • January 7, 2015 9:13 pm
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Ab exercises you do on the floor, right? Nah, there’s one you don’t and it can make for an interesting change in your ab workout!

Dumbbell Side Bends

That exercise is the dumbbell side bend and if so far you did all your ab exercises on the floor will feel very different.

The muscles it trains are the obliques – those to the left and right of the “main abs” (the ones you handle via crunches):

Anatomy of the ab muscles

Your “main” ab muscles (rectus abdominis) and the obliques located to their left and right.

To do dumbbell side bends you keep standing and use one (!) dumbbell:

Don’t Use Two Dumbbells!

Once more: do not use a second dumbbell! It becomes a counterweight and reduces the effectiveness of side bends a lot!

Spot Reduction

And to make sure you don’t start these in the hopes of reducing your love handles: spot reduction doesn’t work. Side bends and other ab exercises train the ab muscles, but don’t reduce the fat covering them!

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  1. Kim says:
    January 8, 2015 at 2:06 am

    I love side bends!!!

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