From: mon@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (m.t.shareshian)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: AMC:TAN: Ton's o' action all around
Date: 13 Nov 92 00:32:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbnewsj.1992Nov13.003213.6400
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In article <BxKo1E.IDH@ddsw1.mcs.com>, starkid@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Lance Sanders) writes:
> 
> >Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:26:46 GMT
> >From: susanm@an.hp.com (Susan Margulies)
> >Message-ID: <BxIJ8M.F8C@scd.hp.com>
> >
> >I keep flip-flopping about Dimitri's bod.  The problem is, from behind
> >he looks terrific, but from the side, he looks like he has a kangaroo
> >pouch stomach!  Ewwwww!
> 
> 
> >Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:18:34 GMT
> >From: mgtaylor@eos.ncsu.edu (Mary Molly G Taylor)
> >Message-ID: <1992Nov10.201834.19070@ncsu.edu>
> >
> >I'm glad the RATS posters haven't let me down!  I agree.  Great buns,
> >but too much gut.  Suck it up Dim!
> 
> 
>    If I don't do my abdominal exercises for a couple of weeks, I start to 
> pudge. And I lift weights 2-3x a week and bike 3-4x a week. Culprits? I'm 
> over 30 (slower metabolism - can be a plus), and I down the brewskis 
> (alcohol affects fat storage). 
> 
>    Solutions? Two words: Legendary Abs. Their approach works, and it 
> doesn't take all day (6-15 minutes).
> 
> 
> As Mike Cyze commented in misc.fitness:
> 
> >Subject: Legendary Abs 'demystified'
> >Organization: University of Western Ont, London
> >
> >Legendary Abs is just a set of progressively difficult ab routines
> >utilizing the giant set approach.  Health for Life just sells this
> >method as a 'synergetic' approach to ab training.  Giant sets
> >are just a series of super sets, with very little (or no) rest between
> >excersizes.  For example, a typical giant set might be
> >        10 hanging leg raises
> >        5  hanging knee raises
> >        (15 second rest)
> >        5  hanging leg raises
> >        5  hanging knee raises
> >        30 lying 6" leg raises
> >        (10 second rest)
> >        25 lying 6" leg raises
> >        35 bent-knee half sit-ups (i.e., 'ab cramps')
> >        20 crunches
> >
> >Apart from the 15s and 10s breaks, you do every excersize without a rest.
> >The 'synergistic' bit about all this is that you work lower abs first,
> >and work your way 'up' your stomach until, with crunches, you just work
> >the muscles just around the bottom of the rib cage.  The premise is that
> >lower abs can't be isolated, whereas upper abs can be isolated.  So, by
> >doing 'lower ab' excersizes first, you pre-exhaust the upper abs, and,
> >after completing the routine, you have mercilessly and completely blasted
> >your entire stomach.  ...And all in under 6 minutes.
> >
> >No miracles, just a logical approach to stomach training.

And remember ... the upper abdominals and the lower abdominals
are interdependent.  To work the lower abs, you need to use
the LOWER abs AND the UPPER abs.  To work the upper abs you only
need to use the UPPER abs.  Notice the upper abs play a role in
the work you do for *both* areas.  As a result, if you tire the
upper abs first, their fatigue will limit the amount of lower
work you can do.  The solution:  exercise lower abs first.

Excellent article.  The hangin' abs are my favorite.

Mon
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