Possessing a slim and tight six-pack for your midsection is key for looking good on the bodybuilding stage, or just at the beach. However, many bodybuilders will train the muscle group like any other. The truth is that the abdominals are built like no other muscle group, and must be trained differently as a result. Let’s examine some of the keys to effective abdominal training. Keep an open mind, as many of these techniques won’t apply to other muscle groups. Machines work! If you spent your leg and chest workouts hiding from free weights and relying solely upon the use of Hammer Strength and Nautilus machines to get the job done when it comes to stimulating the muscles, you wouldn’t see all that much muscle growth. However, the use of crunch and leg raise machines, as well as ...

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You have been prepping for this show for months now. Your upcoming bodybuilding show looms. You’re excited and scared at the same time, but you cannot be sure because the diet and cardio have left your brain working at less than peak efficiency. You’ve been taking weekly photographs, and the progress is coming along slowly but surely. Your abdominals are cutting through. Leg separation is arriving. Veins are coming out of the arms, and the back slightly resembles a road map. If you’re a smart bodybuilder, you are also keeping tabs on your competitors by following their Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, or website pages. You can see who placed at that show last year, and get a pretty good idea who will be competing again. After all, most people compete near where they ...

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Most bodybuilders enter the gym and tackle large, compound movements. After working through their 6 or 8 or 10 sets, they move on to isolation exercises, targeting the back, chest, legs, shoulders and arms. Perhaps at the very tail end of a routine, they’ll add a few sets for abdominals or forearms. They believe they’ve achieved a complete, full-body workout and covered all their bases required to build a complete physique. However there is one muscle group, which is evident in every front and side pose in bodybuilding, which they overlook, much of the time: The serratus. The serratus is a set of muscles, which connects the lats, pectorals, intercostals, and external obliques. This small muscle group resembles a set of fingers, and is truly the union point for the back and front sides of a ...

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