How can I focus on improving my left abs?

phildawson75

My right abs are much stronger and defined than the left side. I do regular crunches, flutter kicks, bicycle crunches, reverse crunches atm but I can feel its the right side that's doing most of the work and only getting even more defined.

How can I isolate it so that the left does more work to balance them out? Any video links etc would be appreciated if you know of any.

Cheers

phildawson75

Bump?

Chief_Rocka

The abs are all one muscle, there is no right or left side. Do you mean obliques?

Yogi_Carl

The abdominals are made up of three left-right pairs of frontal muscles, plus the obliques running up-down on each side of the torso. It is possible, with practise, to work each of these in isolation or at least either side.

I presume you mean your left set of frontal abdominals rather than the left oblique. In which case you can do the left elbow crunch to right knee, lying on the floor which will contract the left abdominals.

Another approach would be to stand in a sumo squat with your hands on your quads and leaning slightly into the squat with your butt sticking out. Now breath out until your lungs are empty, lock your throat as if trying to breathe back in but stopping yourself and use this lock to pull up your abdominals towards your spine by vaccuum pressure. You can pull in the left abdominal wall and the right independantly and even move from left to right. Great massage for your internal organs and a great contraction for your abs.

phildawson75

Yeah it's not my obliques, its my right side of the rectus abdominus (the 8 down the middle). In fact the top right is the most dominant and noticeable compared to the top left just under my pects, and kind of evens out towards the bottom 2 pairs.

I'll give the left elbow-right knee crunches a go, cheers