(EVENING WORKOUT) The Genius Ab Exercise That All Gymnasts Use, but Everyone Else Ignores!

On their first day of training, gymnasts learn the hollow-body hold. It’s a foundational position that involves bracing your abdominals and creating total-body tension, and it’s integral to many other movements in the sport.

 It’s also a seriously genius way for you to train your abs. Yet most people have never even heard of this as a “gym” exercise. Maybe that’s because situps, crunches, and planks get all the press. Which is too bad, since not only will the hollow-body hold crush your core like few other exercises, it’ll pay off big in every other movement you do, too.

“The hollow-body hold allows you to properly transfer force from your upper body to your lower body without any energy leaks,” says Men’s Health fitness advisor B.J. Gaddour, C.S.C.S. “The stronger and more stable you are in this position, the more power you’ll have when squatting, throwing, pushing, pulling, jumping, hitting, kicking, or sprinting.”

In short, it gives you a huge edge. And you’ll better understand why after you experience how challenging it is.

(Want more weight-free movements that will transform your fitness? Check out Gaddour’s cutting-edge fitness DVD, Bodyweight Cardio Burners, for three intense 20-minute workouts that require zero equipment.)

Give the hollow-body hold a try today. It’s a simple exercise, but there are lots of small things you must do in order to nail it. Watch the video above to see Gaddour demonstrate perfect form.

(MORNING WORKOUT) Lower-Body Warmup!

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(DIET) The 5 Foods to Avoid If You Want a Six Pack!

 

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Carrying a spare tire around your belly? You're not alone: Fifty-four percent of U.S. adults now have abdominal obesity, up from 46 percent in 2000, according to a recent report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. If you fall into that category (male abs are considered fat if the waistline measures more than 40 inches), it's time to consider cutting down your consumption of these five foods:

(EVENING WORKOUT) The Monster Cardio Circuit!

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Posted by Men's Health on Wednesday, July 29, 2015

(HEALTH) How Much Fat Is Covering Your Abs? (You May Be Shocked!)!

 

By Lou Schuler

There are, as 

I see it, four classic ways to be lean:

1. There’s hunger-striker lean, achieved with starvation, and not recommended by any major medical organization.

2. There’s heroin-addict lean, achieved most notably by Iggy Pop during the early seventies…and mysteriously retained for decades after he quit using drugs.

3. There’s marathon-runner lean, which is a lot healthier than the first two but probably not what you had in mind when you clicked on this article.

4. And there’s cover-model lean, which I assume everyone reading this aspires to.

That fourth look—made famous by the men who fronted Men’s Health magazine in the nineties and early 2000s—is achieved with a combination of the most muscle you can maintain and the lowest body-fat percentage you can achieve. As we discussed in “How Much Muscle Can You Gain?”, the two processes are inextricably linked. You can’t gain a lot of muscle without also gaining some fat, and you can’t lose a lot of fat without sacrificing some muscle.

(MORNING WORKOUT) Climb and Chop Challenge!

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(EVENING WORKOUT) The Summer Abs Workout!

By Dan Ownes, C.S.C.S.,  Illustrations by ISM
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