Muscle Torso Exercises

Sick and tired of the same old yawn-inducing abdominal exercises that require you do sets upon sets of endless crunches and sit-ups? Tired of back pains that result from endlessly sitting by the computer all day, typing away? Wishing you could somehow improve your posture, restore the stability of your lower back, and build strength through a range of wisely chosen range of motions?

If your trainer is making you do a thousand crunches a day or putting you through an endless round up crunches and sit-ups just so you could build lower abdominal strength and get the abs you want, he is out of his mind. Crunches and sit-ups are good way to sweat out. The best lower abdominal exercises, however, do not consist solely of sit-ups and crunches. Rather, they combine all the routines that develop real strength through compound, ground-based exercises that require coordination and balance.

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What do all of the world’s old time, pound-for-pound strongmen have in common? If you say real core strength, you hit the nail on the head. At the same time, you have just revealed to yourself the secret to real muscle strength: development of a strong core.

Men of Muscle
A muscled torso is one thing; sheer muscle strength is another. Otto Arco, Fred Rollon, Louis Cyr, Eugene Sandow - these celebrated strongmen all displayed almost inhuman levels of power and strength. They regularly performed feats that are almost unheard of today: bending feats, bridging feats, hand balancing, cable and strand pulling - you name it, they’ve done it. What did all these strongmen have in common? Yes, you got that right - unbelievable core strength!

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