Good oblique exercises? (unweighted)

Badgi · 21 Feb 2011 at 10:06

As the title would suggest, I'm after some good exercises that will work the obliques.

titchard · 21 Feb 2011 at 10:24

Planks are always great.

Here's a great list of them - Link

exrx.net is a great website for this kind of thing

Rich

Zip · 21 Feb 2011 at 10:25

Sidebends.
I do 5x5 using progressive weight with them.

Just be prepared for DOMs of Doom!

titchard · 21 Feb 2011 at 10:26

Zip said:
Sidebends.
I do 5x5 using progressive weight with them.

Just be prepared for DOMs of Doom!

This man speaks the truth! Sidebends, then sidebends with weight do help a lot

BennyC · 21 Feb 2011 at 11:27

DB or Kettlebell windmills. You haven't smashed obliques until you've tried these. Great for shoulder stability and also will improve hamstring flexability along with core stability & strength.

Badgi · 21 Feb 2011 at 13:22

BennyC said:
DB or Kettlebell windmills. You haven't smashed obliques until you've tried these. Great for shoulder stability and also will improve hamstring flexability along with core stability & strength.

I like the sound of this.

Is there any "sound" demo's for this? Wouldn't want to do it wrong.

LiE · 21 Feb 2011 at 13:38

I do this for my obliques with 25-30kg + olympic bar, it's awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54a37b2IFVk

BennyC · 21 Feb 2011 at 13:48

Badgi said:
I like the sound of this.

Is there any "sound" demo's for this? Wouldn't want to do it wrong.

There's a few videos on youtube. Easiest way is to be shown however if you do a bit of reading and get a feel for it. Depending on your flexability you might have to bend the back leg if your hamstrings are tight.

You can do single overhead, single hanging, or a double (one weight over head and one hanging below in the other arm which is tough :cool:

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Turkish get ups might be another good thing to practise or a good starting point to get you used to controlling the weight. As you have to twist about around under neath it rather than just bending foward with it. Start light and if the weights toppling just let it go, trying to correct it could just result in nasty injury.

Zip · 22 Feb 2011 at 12:12

BennyC said:
DB or Kettlebell windmills. You haven't smashed obliques until you've tried these. Great for shoulder stability and also will improve hamstring flexability along with core stability & strength.

Are they also called a Bent press?

Just watched a Tutorial and it looks similar to this picture.