Improving Stomach and Core Muscles No 14

Stomach and core muscles are probably one of the most important muscles we have for supporting our martial art training:

1. They are an important part of our body-core maneuverability.

2. A main component as our core stabilizer.

3. Important for protecting our internal organs against body blows.

There are many ways to improve and train our stomach muscles, in the upcoming articles we will go over some of them.

Drill:

We assume the sit-up position with our feet in the air. We perform a bicycle drill: taking our body to the - making the elbow of the right arm meet the knee of our left leg and vise versa..

Tips:

1. The amount of sets and duration of them should be decided upon according to our abilities and endurance level both (mental and physical).

2. This exercise helps strengthen our stomach muscles emphasizing our side muscles and diagonal muscles. It also helps strength the muscles needed for strong knee strikes

Enjoy the Sweat

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