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Pow_Pow_Punishment posted...

There's no resistance profile you can claim from simply twisting your torso to say that's an effective way to load and train the abdominals.

Your abs are doing some work by merely moving, just like your bicep is working when you do something as banal as picking up a pencil, but is there any meaningful stimulus that the muscles are adapting to? Just by twisting? Hardly.

And on top of that, you really don't want to blindly tell someone with back pain to stretch their back that far. I can scan Dr. Stuart McGill's take on that from one of his textbooks when I get home.

Damn. That was a lot. Very fair point not to take my advice.
When I do them, my obliques definitely burn. To me, that's ab stuff.