Q: In your opinion, what is the ultimate bodybuilding exercise?

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Enter any gym in America, and there is no doubt you will see someone training abs.  Particularly, upper abs.  In most every gym in the country, at any given moment, you will see several people doing crunches, either on a bench or on a machine, in hope of building a spectacular midsection.  Crunches are king.  They are the default choice.  Yet oddly, crunches only train half of the abdominal muscles.

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You hate your job; your girlfriend just dumped you and your car’s engine just exploded.  You come home to find six messages on your answering machine; two from late debts that you owe; one from your boss, letting you know he needs you to work the weekend; and one more from the auto shop telling you that the cost to fix your car is three times what the car is worth.  Sounds like you’re having “one of those days”; the kind that you just can’t wait to end.  Tomorrow you will dread even getting out of bed.  Sound familiar?  While these examples together may sound extreme, the bottom line is that stress is an integral part of our daily lives.  As much as we would like to get away from it, it’s always there. What’s important is not trying to completely eliminate stress from our lives, but rather how we deal with it. Let’s take a look at some of the common ways people deal with stress.

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