Abs workout.

[Nobledude]

Can you isolate and train the lower/upper part of abs, or abs is one big muscle that cannot be isolated?

 

[Nobledude]

So is the abdomen a one big muscle or it has three different zones that can be trained differently?

 

[pumped marbles]

Most people obtain the top 4 Abdominals first, this is from most ab exercises like crunches blah blah blah.. If you want all six or ever eight to stick out, do your leg lifts

 

[Nobledude]

Most people obtain the top 4 Abdominals first, this is from most ab exercises like crunches blah blah blah.. If you want all six or ever eight to stick out, do your leg lifts

Anatomically, abs is one big muscle. Can one big muscle be isolated and trained differently?

 

[al420]

Most people obtain the top 4 Abdominals first, this is from most ab exercises like crunches blah blah blah.. If you want all six or ever eight to stick out, do your leg lifts

No one obtain abdominals from doing crunches - Etheopians have abdominals.

Abs come from the kitchen - all 6 of them.

 

[Protobuilder]

LoL ^^

As I understand it, abs are one big ol' muscle but they're kinda' unique in that they have attachments that run up and down the entire length of the muscle. There aren't "technically" upper and lower abs, but it seems you can innervate the muscle differently to get stronger contractions in the upper and lower halves. I think abs are rather unique in this aspect. On the flip side (and this goes for ANY of the arguments over contracting one 'part' of a muscle), if the weights are heavy enough, the entire muscle fires, so that "isolating" one "piece" of a muscle isn't possible w/ heavy weight.