By now, I had been focusing on body toning by burning fat from various body parts. It was usual hot Sunday of July 2018 & I started functional workout upon reaching the gym. I started with exercises to burn fat from my obliques.
My gym buddy Kunal phoned me up:
Kunal: Bro, I am about to reach gym! What do we plan to workout today?
Me: Kunal Bro, let us do functional & abs/oblique today.
Kunal: copy that!
As soon as Kunal arrived, we started doing 3 sets of puddling rope (35 reps) & push-ups(20 reps) alternatively. As soon as we finished the same, we connected with Shaad Bhai.
Shaad bhai: On having a look at our “abs”, he commented, Sushant ji & Kunal ji your upper “abs” are in perfect shape & lower ones have improved.
Me: Thanks Shaad bhai! However, our oblique muscles are still far from being called “perfect”. We would require your guidance to burn fat from oblique & bring to a muscular shape.
Shaad bhai: Sure thing!
On learning from Shaad bhai that we had to undergo various variants of planks, push-ups & side crunches, we knew that our next 3 weeks will be very exhausting! When we started oblique focused workout such as ab wheel roll out, weighted planks, push up to side planks, seated barbel twist, bicycle crunches & Kettlebell side crunch, we were shocked by the kind of endurance level required to perform these workouts.
When we started with these exercises, we could only do 2 sets of 6 to 7 reps. We were questioning ourselves whether our strength level which we achieved over last 6 months was not strong enough to perform these high energy workouts. We also spoke with Shaad bhai on this!
Me: Are we missing something? We have reached optimum core strength but still we are facing hard times doing these exercises.
Shaad bhai: Sushant ji & Kunal ji, we need to alter our diet as well to meet the strength level for performing these advanced level oblique workouts. Accordingly, on changing out diet for next 2 weeks, we could see large difference in our strength level. Sooner, we started doing 2 sets with 8 to 10 reps. Later in a span of next 2 weeks, we could perform 3 to 4 sets with 12 reps each.
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