Video: Abs Exercise for Obliques: The Wood Chop

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The wood chop pulley on many gym machines is great for abs exercises targeting the obliques. Exercise the obliques on the wood chop with a fitness instructor in this free video six-pack abs workout.

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Hi. We're over here, this is called the wood chop. The woodchop is for the external obliques. I'm going to take a supinated grip of my bottom hand, pronated grip of my top hand, take a step to my right so the weight stack is off the sect. I want to keep your shoulders rigid. Square your pelvis, square your shoulders. Now, slow the movement down. We're going to pull down like we're chopping wood. Chopping down, one, two, three. Big stretch. Down, two. Explode, two, three. We're going to contract. Squeeze, three. Eccentric movements. Slowly, two, three, four. Squeezing, five. Feel the move. Originates here. Six. And here. Seven and eight and nine and ten. So it originates here, one. Here, two. All the way, three. And squeezing at the bottom, slowly, slowly, slowly. Release. To modify it, we can step two. For intermediate to advanced, we can drop to both knees. Supinated grip with the bottom hand, pronated with the top. Knees about shoulder-width apart. Square the shoulders, square the pelvis. Push down, two. Stretch, two, three. Four. Cutting across the body at a diagonal, five. Slow on the way up, six. Eccentric part of the movement. Concentric, eccentric. Concentric, eccentric. Explode, two, three. And tight. Release. Modified version is the woodchop standing, the woodchop on two knees.

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Abs Exercise for Obliques: The Wood Chop

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