Ab torture, The Spider

Ok, as I attempt to type this, anything with an L or an O just about brings a tear to my eye. And any body movement makes me want to crumble and moan like a baby. Why do you ask, well big bad dawg to an eight hour class on ground tactics. Ground tactics are what happens if you find yourself on the ground with a bad guy. Well, I basically got my ass kicked for eight hours. I learned a ton, but the killer was a little action called The Spider. To duplicate this, sit on the floor with your legs out in front of you, put your arms behind you so that you can raise your legs up off the ground 12 to 14 inches. The point is that you can keep the bad guy at pay, while spinning on your butt to keep him in front of you. If you actually try this, you'll feel it in your abs very quickly. I won't even tell you how long we had to keep them up, but suffice to say even somebody with abs of steel would find it difficult. However, in practical applications, this is a very simple move for anybody to perform if they are thrown to the ground, with a bad guy trying to get on top of them. Just kick and scream. And I'll tell you, a couple good shots to the shins and the bad guy is going to be thinking twice about getting close. Hope nobody has to use it, but it is a very natural, and easy defensive position. If you don't have to do it for long.

I'm so jealous! I'm dying to do ab exercises. I've always done a lot of ab work, but I'm really anxious to do it now because I might actually get to see the results instead of just knowing that there are abs of steel buried under all the flab. I did do a few leg lifts last night (very few compared to the 500 on each leg that I normally do) and made sure that nothing pulled on the abs, but it just wasn't the same. OK.... I'm afraid to ask, but I just need to know... did anything with an O bring a tear to your eye before the spider? I'm going to slit my wrists if anything with an O brings a tear to my eye. I'm hoping it was the spider that did that to you and if it was, I'm calling an exterminator because I don't want no spiders 'round here. Connie

Careful there Missy, in more ways then one. You need to talk with your Doc about doing abs, I wasn't able to do any ab excercise until six weeks. And careful about the O comment.