Oblique Strength Training for Diving

Video Transcript

"Hey, how's it going? I'm Bobby Larew. We just worked the lower abs, the middle abs and the upper abs. Now we're going to work on the spare tire on the side. Here's how we're going to strengthen your oblique or your side stomach muscles. I've got three exercises for you. The first one is a side plank. Prop yourself up on your elbow closest to the ground, legs out straight, feet flexed, place your left hand on your left hip. From here, we're going to rise up in the air. We're going to push our hips to the ceiling. From here, then what we're going to do, lower our hips back down to the ground. Okay, don't touch the ground though. We're going to do this three sets of twenty on each side. Okay, it looks something like this. After you've finished, just going to roll to the other side and do the same thing. My favorite oblique exercise is called a Russian Twist. Here's what that looks like. You want to take a medicine ball, you're going to balance on your back side, your knees are going to be at shoulder level, take your medicine ball, and you're just twisting side to side. You don't want to turn the arms and the shoulders. You want to turn the stomach. The last thing that you can do for abs, grab a dumb bell, hang it down to your side, feet shoulder width apart, just stretch down nice and easy. I wouldn't try anything really heavy, forty or fifty pounds, I'd stick around twenty, twenty-five. Switch arms, same thing. Those are some exercises for your obliques."