The ag walk is great for practical core strength because you have to maintain ab and butt contraction while moving your limbs dynamically. Without that foundation skill, you leak energy whenever you try to throw, jump, tackle, or lift. A stable core in a hip-extended position is the key to generating massive force through your extremities. This is my all-time favorite ab workout because it makes you better at everything. Twelve laps will make you weep.īy the way, “ag” is short for agony, which is what you feel after doing these. Then they put their toes into furniture sliders and race each other down a 26-meter tumble track, still in a hand plank position, dragging their toes behind them. Coach Sommer has his athletes assume a hand plank position. The ag walk was introduced to me by famed gymnastics coach Christopher Sommer. Here are three of my favorite uncommon ab workouts that will take your fitness to another level.

And they are also easily scaled for all fitness levels. There are many superior options that will shred your abs without chafing your butt.

Which isn’t really a problem, since you don’t need to do sit-ups to get great abs. Now there’s a strange gap in evolutionary pressure! I won’t dispute that we were “born to run,” but I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest we were not “born to do sit-ups.” After running a gym for a while, I noticed that many women who have had children can’t do sit-ups anymore.

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