Things like squats and deadlifts will work your spinal erectors to a degree which is not possible to achieve with your rectus abdominals. The spinal erectors main job is to extend the lower back. It’s it is being worked hard to keep you from having any lumbar flex ion while squatting and deadlifting. And while bracing does invoke your rectus abdominals, they are not being worked any where near what the spinal erectors are.
The exercises to work your abs are not as taxing on your abs as to what a deadlift does to your lower back. Things like leg raises, crunches, or ab wheel rollouts are nothing compared to a 400 pound deadlift.
Thus, by reaching a certain strength level in squats and deadlifts, you will necessarily end up with a lower back/ab muscular imbalance. Biomechanics abs gravity simply make it easier to overload the spinal erectors but also makes it very difficult to strengthen the abdominals to anywhere near the same degree.
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wow thanks for telling me this information on a Vietnamese basket weaving forum
shut up moron
This is moronic, do a heavy squat with weak abs and get folded in half
It’s your spinal erectors that keep you from folding in half. It’s what they as a muscle group do. Your abs are lumbar flexors.
tl;dr
TLDR train your abs. The whole “compounds is enough for core” is a meme. A strong core prevents hernias, back injuries, and will generally help the compound lifts the themselves
The tldr actually is that your abs won’t be able to catch up with the strength of your spinal erectors even if you do train them.
ye, true. honestly people underestimate their core strength. it took me months to do proper hanging leg raises (no swinging, slow controlled) even after doing the compound BB lifts for years. Abs are almost never specifically prescribed in alot of programs, so many people end up neglecting them. Currently I'm trying to do very strict toe to bar hanging leg raises but even those will take alot of weeks to get down.
I’m going to spinal erect my penis into your butthole
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Thanks OP
But if your erectors are stronger this means you don't need to brace as hard so why wouldn't that relieve pressure from the abs for bracing? You'd think having a weaker lower back would mean you need to brace harder to carry the weight and therefore putting all the pressure on your abdomen because you're forced to brace extra hard
Ya just another point as to why compounds are just spinal erectors and not abs
yes but that's not my concern here
What is your concern
If you want stabilizing muscles why not use dumbells and other free weights instead? They strengthen the stabilizing muscles much more anyways
Barbells are midwit workouts, if you want stability and strength there are dumbells, if you want hypertrophy there are machines. Maybe if you don’t have a lot of time its a good idea to use barbell since they work lots of muscles at once
Just do OHP you moron.
That can’t compare to deadlift for spinal erectors
Pic related are most peoples posture when relaxed
So what? It's not like you'll end up with some postural issue.
What happens if I dojt solve this imbalance?
Youll look like