ab workouts?

[Cai.]

I recently fractured my wrist and i have a cast, and i need some good ab workouts to help build them and make them look better, i cant do any cable crunches or anything machiene orientated really. Any workouts i can try?

 

[Sammy]

leg raises in a captains chair?

 

[Cai.]

leg raises in a captains chair?

i cant put any weight on my wrist, and when i do those i always move forwards and my back hits the pad on the back, ill have to fix my form, but how can i add weight to this movement?

 

[Pearex]

Try deadbug, reverse crunch, or hollow body hold they’re way safer and more effective

 

[Pearex]

i cant put any weight on my wrist, and when i do those i always move forwards and my back hits the pad on the back, ill have to fix my form, but how can i add weight to this movement?

Don't do it

 

[Starlet]

but how can i add weight to this movement?

there are ankle weights

 

[insomnia]

Not much you can do since the only function of the abs is to perform spinal flexion, which you cannot do right now because of your wrist.

Leg raises or stuff that doesn’t do spinal flexion works your hip flexors, not your abs.

 

[Marlonmogsyouhaha]

They're all cope without weight

 

[Cai.]

They're all cope without weight

yeah i cant feel any burn on any ab movements without weight unless im doing 40+ reps

 

[Cai.]

Not much you can do since the only function of the abs is to perform spinal flexion, which you cannot do right now because of your wrist.

Leg raises or stuff that doesn’t do spinal flexion works your hip flexors, not your abs.

so leg raises do nothing for my abs, but my abs ache after i do them, jus a question sorry if that sounds rude.

 

[Sammy]

i cant put any weight on my wrist, and when i do those i always move forwards and my back hits the pad on the back, ill have to fix my form, but how can i add weight to this movement?

I dont know what you mean weight to your wrist, you should have your elbows taking most of your the load. Wrists have no involvement in this.
Your back should be on the pad through the whole movement, you may be thinking of something else ill attach a picture of what im talking about.
Also form is very important or this becomes a hip flexor exercise. Try to keep your upper body in place, tense your abs, raise your legs up above your glutes, keeping them straight and crunch in.
Progress in reps before adding weight, get upto 20-30 reps, but i really doubt you can do 30 with propper form, once you can then add weight, its easier to do this way for exercises like this. You can get strap on ankle weights, or grab a dumbbell between your ankles.

 

[insomnia]

so leg raises do nothing for my abs, but my abs ache after i do them, jus a question sorry if that sounds rude.

It’s not rude man dw about it. The reason why you feel your abs working is because they are indeed working, but they’re doing an isometric. Your core is working but it’s main role is to stabilise your body, which isn’t a very efficient way to train them compared to spinal flexion.

 

[Cai.]

It’s not rude man dw about it. The reason why you feel your abs working is because they are indeed working, but they’re doing an isometric. Your core is working but it’s main role is to stabilise your body, which isn’t a very efficient way to train them compared to spinal flexion.

Ah okay, would a reverse crunch work?

 

[insomnia]

Ah okay, would a reverse crunch work?

It wouldn’t, no. It’s the same thing as a leg raise. Like I previously said, it technically does train your abs, just in a really inefficient way.