Dips

[Zac Rhyne]

Dips.

[Blairbob]

yep, I've taken your idea on adding front squats to my program to bolster my abdominal strength.

[Felipe]

squat can easly mantain abs strength, apart from the very specific gymnastics movements.

Beginning this year, I didnt perform abs (maybe 3-4 times monthly) but squat only. At the end of the cycle (3 months and a squat of 105 kg) I was able to crunch 15 kg behind the head for 20 reps. Howerever, my HLL suffered for lack of practice.

[Blairbob]

I definitely felt my abs being engaged when I was deadlifting 147 and change kilos. But this was a bit after my earlier sets of front squats at 90ish. Honestly, I think I feel my abs get more sore in my front squats than my quads but I'm not exactly sure.

I virtually don't feel my abs doing back squats@ 135ish or whatever 300lbs is. I do but not as much as Front Squat or Deadlift. I do feel it during good mornings but my hamstrings are felt hard the next day.

[Blairbob]

Jeff, currently on my 531 day2 is front squat, bench press, and deadlift in that order. Do you think I should swap the order of the DL and FS? My day 1 is BS(LBBS for this cycle), OHP, GoodMorning. Generally Tues/Fri or Wed/Sat.

[Blairbob]

That is just my barbell strength template. I generally train hard 4 out of 5 days at the gym, wednesday being a light stretching day and saturday being the same. I may bounce on trampoline or tumble a bit and do just the basic FSP warmups and work HS and press HS.

I tried to add 5 sets of 3 ascending weighted pullups and dips and noticed it was not going to be possible on the same day or 2x/week. So I've tried to implement 1x/week weighted pullups/dips. My max are somewhere around 1/2BW 80ish lbs. I was using 15-25-35-45-55 but need to knock it down to 2 reps or lower percentages.