Tag Archive: abdominal exercise

Getting Ripped Abs With No Direct Abdominal Exercises

Since the release of Tim Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Body which has a photo of me in ripped condition in the chapter “Six-Minute Abs”  I’ve received a lot of questions about my training and diet at the time the photo was taken. The following are the short answers to the most common questions. Regarding abdominal…

The Myth of Core Stability

This article is posted with the written permission of the author, Professor Eyal Lederman of CPDO Ltd. in London. Thanks to Steve Turner for making me aware of the article and to Professor Lederman for allowing me to post it here. This is important reading for anyone involved in exercise, either professionally or for their…

Ripped Abs

Contrary to the idiotic recommendations of most current ab training books, courses and group class instructors, it is neither necessary nor beneficial to perform dozens of high rep sets of a wide variety of abdominal exercises. You also don’t need different exercises for your lower and upper abs, and you don’t need stability balls, special…