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HANGING LEG RAISES (7 min)
34, 20, 15, 13, 14 x BW
Those in themselves are extraordinary! I'm lighter than you, but I can only do 50 of the hanging knee variants in sets of five across 10 minutes. A lot of ab work seems to disagree with my lumbar spine. There's occasionally some smartass in the gym who'll notice my struggle with ab work and suggest that I have a "weak core", that's until they see me Squatting or Deadlifting, to which point they retreat into disbelief. I've still not yet worked out the anomalous nature of the bodyweight exercises, there's a lot of incredibly strong guys with very well developed lats and arms, who are pressing ungodly amounts of weight, yet who can't do a single chinup or pullup. At the same time there are guys out there with incredibly strong cores (Squat and Deadlift guys, and not just the super heavyweights) who can't plank or anything like that.