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V-ups
Core · Bodyweight
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 5
Reps6 to 15
RIR1 to 2
Load is fixed, so progress by adding reps first, then by slowing the lowering phase, then by adding weight.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Abs.
Secondary: Hip flexors.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian V-ups
- Swedish V-ups
- Danish V-ups
- German V-Ups
- Spanish Abdominales en V
- Italian V-up
- Portuguese Abdominal em V
- Russian Складка
- French V-ups
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