Obliques

[greemah]

Who works them directly?

Do they get worked enough with squats/dead etc?

[jimmybro1]

I working them directly, not sure if you work them with compound lifts. But probably do as they stabilize your body.

[Pseudonym]

I've just started working them occasionally. I never used to, and although I had great abs and serratus (when I was lean enough!), my obliques never really popped. So now I target them directly from time to time.

[FellowshipOfTheRon]

depends how you look i guess? my upper body hasn't quite gotten wide enough yet so i personally don't hit my obliques directly very often (still do the usual ab work though) out of fear that if they widen up i'll lose the V taper and get that gross feminine hourglass look.

[greemah]

I'm thinking more injury prevention than building them up

I have always just done situps and barbell rollouts for abs, but that's only really working the 6 pack... thinking it would be good to do other core exercises also?

[Mcmass]

Yeah I work them directly with heavy deadlifts, front squats and uni-lateral work like single arm presses or rows.

Works a treat and is most efficient way to train them with the added bonus of actually working out and not wasting time on isolation exercises.

As far as injury prevention its more important to teach the whole core to work with the body as it moves naturally rather than doing rep after rep of side bends etc etc :roll: