Do side bends work your abs?

The side bend doesn’t work just the obliques. It also heavily hits the abs and the quadratus lumborum, the deep, hidden muscle on either side of the lower spine that helps form the rear of the abdominal wall.26 Ara 2013

Side bends will actually make your oblique’s thicker and denser . I can bet you that your vision was not a thicker waist. So, put the heavy dumbbell down and don’t use side bends for your waistline.

Skip: Weighted Standing Side Bends Holding a dumbbell on one side of your body during side bends “puts the spine in a compromised position, and it’s hard to maintain alignment to isolate the obliques properly ,” says Snow.2 Şub 2018