Best Oblique Isolation exercise?

[SmegmaProtein]

can we get some ideas?

[buffgrk]

i like broomstick twists.. not really any resistance and its helped tighten my waist from personal experience.. as soon as you start doing direct resistance work for obliques you better keep a watch on your waistline brosef

[SmegmaProtein]

Originally Posted by buffgrk

i like broomstick twists.. not really any resistance and its helped tighten my waist from personal experience.. as soon as you start doing direct resistance work for obliques you better keep a watch on your waistline brosef

im going to have to disagree with you, i havent seen a peron who looked like they had love handles as the result of strong obliques.

lucky for me, i have a naturally tiny waist (29-30) so im gona do em heh. its hard for me to find jeans sometimes so i wouldnt mind a bigger waist

[buffgrk]

Originally Posted by SmegmaProtein

im going to have to disagree with you, i havent seen a peron who looked like they had love handles as the result of strong obliques.

lucky for me, i have a naturally tiny waist (29-30) so im gona do em heh. its hard for me to find jeans sometimes so i wouldnt mind a bigger waist

i have, my friend used to do sidebends on the hyperextension seat with 10kg plate, he put an inch on his waist.. so yeah i kind of know from personal experience... and yes he stopped doing them

[dazsmith69]

woodchoppers on the cables high to low, keep the weight down, form strict and reps high and itll build your obliques,

[Sim882]

side bends on hyperextension machine

[Sim882]

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/...5SideBend.html

[tonester]

You can't isolate the obliques but this will make em work hard http://www.t-nation.com/readArticle.do?id=459314

Give them a try, come back and report.

[SmegmaProtein]

Originally Posted by tonester

You can't isolate the obliques but this will make em work hard http://www.t-nation.com/readArticle.do?id=459314

Give them a try, come back and report.

im not doing that. no way.

i did dumbell standing side bends yesterday which were pretty decent. my back hurts a bit today.

what i plan to do is alternate oblique/abs every day. so monday i'd do obliques, tuesday i'd do abs, etc.

[wazzucoug1]

Originally Posted by SmegmaProtein

i havent seen a peron who looked like they had love handles as the result of strong obliques.

I have, in fact I used to be one of those people. Until I stopped doing direct oblique exercises. Try doing sets of 20 reps of side bends with a 45lb plate, perfect form (all the way to each side, each rep), for a month and you will deveop stong love handles.

Thats why I stopped. I know it's all muscle, but it just doesn't look right. Same reason no females should ever do side bends.

[chazzy1864]

If you have fat sitting on top of big obliques it will look like love handles. If you have low body fat, and pronounced obliques, it completes the adonis belt.