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Summary: Compressions work abs and core muscles by targeting involuntary muscles often overlooked in core training. Learn to build ripped abs with compression from a fitness instructor in this free fitness video.
Ben Jurand is a fitness enthusiast and practitioner of abdominal alignment and core muscle exercises.read more
"We're on a roll now, so let's get into compression now. These are precepts. That means that I'm giving you little concepts that we're going to build on. So don't forget the precepts that we learned before: alignment, the vacuum. Now, let's go into the compression. I would like you to lie down in supine position. Palms facing the ceiling. Nice long, elongated neck. Now, notice that the cervical discs are nice and almost nice proximity to the floor. Our palms rotated to the ceiling so the upper middle back is opened to the floor, and the last refuge is right here, our lumbar spine. We have a lordosis, curve, curvature in our spine. I want you to become aware of that hollow dent between the floor and your lower back. We're going to suck our stomach in, we're going to push our lower back in to the floor, as if it's stapled there. And I don't, don't want it to waiver, it's constant. It's a ten, keep it a ten, it doesn't waiver to a two, to a four, or a five, it stays consistently compressing down, tightened. Now hip flexors will shorten, keep compressing. Compressing, compressing, and pushing down and release. Suck in, and push down. Now close your eyes. Just because we have our stomachs sucked in we're pushing down with our, we're pushing down with our lower backs stuck to the floor, doesn't mean that we can't breathe. We can breathe, and talk and communicate, so be aware of that. So if you had a three, keep it a three. And release and breathe. Good. Let's put ten together. Let's compress, release, one, suck in. Compress, push down, release two. Suck in, compress, release, three. Suck in. Compress, release, four. Suck in, compress, notice the hip flexors shorten. Release, five. Compress, keep pushing down, release, six. Compress, seven. Compress, pushing down, breathing, extending, release. Breathe. Compression."