How To Do Hanging Leg Raises
This short article will teach you how to do hanging leg raises because it’s one of the very best “hard” ab exercises you can do. To recap, let’s cover just some of the reasons why this is such a great exercise:
They strengthen your abs (especially your lower abs!)…
They decompress your spine…
They stretch your back…
They help [...]
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February 17th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
How can i stop myself from swinging back and forth like a pendulum while doing hanging leg raises?
I tried it once at the gym, felt silly, then hoped nobody noticed me give up after like 2 reps and headed back over to the captain's chair where i was able to get some stabalization from the back rest and arm rests.
For that matter, is the captain's chair as effective as hanging leg raises for working lower abs? Will I be cool with the chair or should I learn how to do leg raises?
February 17th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Learn how to do leg raises. If you're swinging, it's because you're going too fast. Go slower until your lats, obliques, and abs are strong enough to hold you tight.
The captain's chair doesn't actually work your lower abs - your body uses hip flexors that actually attach underneath the abs - the particular flexor it uses is called the Illopsoas.
You think you're working your abs because they're contracting - but they're only contracting to protect the spinal column, not to actually do any resistance work. You would be better off just doing crunches with proper contraction.
If you do leg raises, be sure not to swing by going slower - this directly works your obliques, lats, abs, grip, and hip flexors. They're a much more effective exercise.
Note that there's no such thing as "lower abs" or "upper abs". Abs are one muscle plate - tendons and connectors running across the plate give it the illusion of being more than one muscle, but it's not.
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