Planet Muscle

Q. I’m an old-timer playing around with weights. Awhile back I asked for advice about a detached left biceps tendon that I did not have surgically re-attached. I followed your advice and my biceps are recovering size and definition. Thanks so much. Now, I have had both hips replaced and I can’t bring my knees up more than 90 degrees so I can’t do crunches. Do you have any ideas for my abs?

A. Getting old is a bitch. You don’t have to have your legs bent up on a bench to do crunches. They can be flat or with a slight amount of flexion in your knee joints and you only need to curl up in a crunch, just so your scapulae clear the floor. You can also do ‘curl downs’ on a lat machine and leg raise variations within in your hip joint range of motion.