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Fra Testosterone Mag:

The Peanut Butter Maneuver

You know how your tongue sticks to the roof of your mouth when you eat Peter Pan peanut butter? That’s the position your tongue should assume when you’re doing ab movements.

There are a couple of reasons for doing this. For one thing, according to Paul Chek, the guy who discovered this concept, it helps you avoid neck fatigue. When you hold your tongue in this position, it recruits the proper muscles of the neck to handle the load and you get the most bang for your buck out of the movement. It also takes some of the stress away from the upper vertebrae that might ordinarily result.

To test this, put your tongue in its normal position, i.e., on the bottom of the mouth and resist while someone pushes on your forehead. Then, repeat the exercise with the tongue on the roof of your mouth. You’ll be able to exert much more force with the tongue in the latter position.

This makes it a good thing to do, too, while you’re doing any kind of direct neck work (wrestler’s bridges and the like).

The second reason to do this while performing ab movements is a little bit more vague and a little more mysterious. For some reason, when you do ab movements with your tongue glued to the roof of your mouth, you feel much more of a mind-muscle connection. In other words, you increase fiber recruitment in your abs. Try it while you’re sitting there reading this. First, contract your abs. Relax. Now, put your tongue against the roof or your mouth and try it again. You should be able to contract the muscles harder.

Pretty nifty, huh?

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[ATJ]

Det er faktisk et rigtig godt råd! den stilling tungen skal ligge i er tungens hvilestilling, hvilken man let finder ved at lave en "synke-bevægelse". Holder man samtidigt nakken i neutralposition under maveøvelser og andet der stresser nakken, vil man opleve at nakke kan klare langt mere.