The following is an email I received when I asked “Eric the Expert” on Youtube.
Why he referred to training the lower abs muscles, as being different then training the upper abs muscles, and why was he implying that they we all different muscles. That required different exercises to get a six pack? Assuming (which he also failed to mention), that we had the right diet to facilitate the lowering of body fat, as we all have an anatomy chart somewhere. I omitted his last name, as my intention is to educate, not facilitate…ignorance!
Raul,
Lower abdominals are part of a series of abdominal muscles known as the Rectus Abdominis and consist of 4 pairs of bilateral muscles each lying the most superficially to the skin. These muscles are the first layer usually trained when one does crunches and they are known as the "six pack" but there are also 3 other abdominal layers such as the external and internal obliques, and the transverse abdominis. The lower abdominals are the lower set of the 2 pairs of rectus abdominis.
Eric
Eric,
Thank you for the great speech, but you failed to mention the point...which is the "6 pack" is not individual muscles. They a series of muscles comprised to form just one. Meaning that they only recruit muscle fiber from one incursion point...hence the name Rectus Abdominis! Nice try:)One other training tip for you, as I also have a bio mechanics background. Are you familiar with segmental hyper mobility? If not you might want to subscribe to my channel, where I will discuss the dangers of doing movements that are inherently dangerous. In an attempt to stimulate the muscles from a different angle, yet the same incursion point. Like lying leg raises for example.
Your analytical rhetoric may sound great, but is it still based largely in theory, not science. If five people sat down and read the Bible or the Quran. We could get five different opinions…which would all be RIGHT! To a certain degree that is, but what most self professed experts fail to realize, is that technology has infiltrated every market segment! Exercise and nutrition, are sciences, with technology that has taken the guess work out of our training and nutrition needs. The only things we lack are long term studies. In essence, exercise and nutritional science are still in their infancy. If you would like to explain your training theories on my show you are more than welcome. The point of my show is not to be right, but on getting results for my viewers! By focusing on clear, concise, accurate information.
I rehabilitate their bodies and train their brains. Your training theory only serves to confuse the typical laymen, in your zest to be considered an expert or guru through your interpretation or manipulation of the facts! The sciences were created evolve humans from the dark ages. Not to keep us there, through misinformation. We can get studies to prove anything these days, as big business, insurance companies, and pharma companies, specialize in pseudo science, designed to separate people from their money through marketing. I know how to read and interpret unbiased, double blind, placebo studies, done on the correct target market group. Most people don't...and that is why "THE EXPERTS" speak and write in a language, that few can understand! Rather than bore my viewers with explaining what the scientific terms mean. I will empower my viewers with common sense, not non-sense approaches to training and nutrition.
If we are not part of the solution, then we are part of the problem.Two plus two equals four and what goes up must come down! That is not going to change...no matter how much you wish it would to suit your belief system. Maybe you might want to revaluate keeping it simple, for the welfare of others? Just a thought...At any rate...Thank you again for your response, and I do appreciate you taking the time to research your response: )Right out of Anatomy 101!;) Don't forget to subscribe to my youtube Raul School channel @ raulrodriguez101 Until my show is launched...you might learn to never under estimate the beauty of simplicity or at least anatomy!
Good Luck,
Raul Rodriguez
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