Don’t Train Harder (Yet); Fix Your Form First

Cori Lefkowith, of Strong at Every Age, shows us how to make it count:

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Prioritizing “training harder” can cause more problems than you might expect, because progressing too quickly causes your hips and lower back to compensate. Instead, it’s best to work up very gradually. For example, build up from a pelvic tilt hold to a march, a double knee tuck, a single leg lower, and finally a double leg lower to properly train a posterior pelvic tilt, and protect your lower back.

Some other mistakes to avoid:

• Avoiding or misusing spinal flexion: include crunches and sit-ups since your abs are meant to flex your spine, and control the curl one vertebra at a time—round forwards as you reach towards your toes and lower with control—so you don’t rely on momentum or your hip flexors.
• Not focusing on true muscle engagement: prioritize curling your pelvis towards your ribs in reverse crunches and leg raises, monitor what you feel working, and regress or adjust if your hip flexors dominate instead of your abs.
• Prioritizing fatigue and quantity over quality and intensity: spread your ab work across three to four sessions per week, maintain controlled reps, and create full-body tension in movements like a plank by bracing your core, slightly tucking your pelvis, engaging your glutes and quads, and driving back through your heels so shorter, high-effort sets replace longer, relaxed holds.

In fewer words, the advice here is to avoid forcing advanced variations before mastering fundamentals, and instead focus on the controlled, intentional reps that actually build strong abs.

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