This is a simple twist on the regular hanging leg raise exercise…instead of hanging from the bar facing forward, you will instead turn 90 degree so that your body is perpendicular to the bar, then you’ll do hanging leg raises.
How is this different, you might ask?
In this one, we’re going to take two of the best abdominal stability exercises you can do and make them even MORE demanding (and throw in some forearm training for a bonus).
This is one of my very favorite “secret weapon” total-torso training exercises. It covers pretty much every major part in your upper body in just one movement (or should I say TWO movements in one!).
It’s a relatively simple-looking concept on the surface…you’ll be doing a single-arm dumbell bench press while at the same time doing a single arm cable pulldown/row.
This is a simple dumbell row exercise with a twist…instead of rowing them both up at the same time, you’ll be alternating the rowing of each dumbell so you not only hit your back and arms, you get great cross-tension through the entire core and lower back area.
This is a very powerful concept – in real life and athletics, you’ll rarely find an event where both arms operate in unison. This exercise works with that tendency to develop the core and the back.
You can use lighter weight and go for higher reps with this one but in this demo, I wanted to show that you can use heavier weight and really challenge your core strength while hitting your back.
In the first part of the video, I’m using 85lb dumbells. In the second part, I increased it to 105 lb dumbells – that’s GREAT core training, believe me!
