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Comment on I have been doing ab exercises (crunches) with little progress for last two months? by yomama

yomama — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:51:17 +0000

ab workouts alone do NOT get you a defined stomach
First you need to understand that you need to burn the fat over your abdominal muscles to see your toned, sexy core. After that it depends on exactly what you’re eating (you should try to eat mostly lean protein and veggies if you’re trying to tone up) and how often (you should try to eat ~5-6 times/day to speed up your metabolism. Now to answer your question:
To get abs you need a proper balance of good eating, resistance and cardio excercise, and sometimes supplements. You need to add resistance excercise as that is the best way to reduce fat (muscle burns fat/calories) and change body shape.
Different people hold fat in different places and that last little bit of fat is usually the hardest to lose. There isn’t any definitive way to ‘spot’ reduce body fat but here are some things I have found useful (to get a lean flat stomach and get ‘abs’):
- Do sprint repeats. It’s now nice and warm enough to do these outside so that’s good. Jog to warm up (~1/2 mile). Then do 8 sets of repeat sprints (start with ~100m and gradually move up to ~200m as you get in better shape). Basically you sprint all out, then slow jog (really slow) back. Repeat 8 times. The first one you want to go only ~3/4 speed since your body will still be warming up. Make sure you stretch afterwards as your hamstrings will be sore the next day (especially after the first time).
- Resistance training: go for more reps (less weight), try drop sets, try circuit training. All of these are useful for getting more lean(and as a result will burn fat off your abs). Remember the more muscle you build, the more fat you’ll burn (and you won’t be big and bulky either).
- Ab ball: do a lot of exercises using one of those ab balls…they work your core in every exercise. You can also do actual ab target exercises (twists, crunches, etc.). Get a trainer at your gym to show you some. Or you can get the CoreSecrets (ball/video) for ~$ 10-$ 20 online (just google it)
- Oblique exercises (twisting). Do a lot of these using the ab ball: sit on the ball hold a 10 lb weight and walk your feet forward. ‘Lay down’ and with the weigh above you twist to one side-up-pause-twist to the other side. Ensure you’re using your obliques to do the work.
- Lower abs. Do leg lifts (hold weights in your feet, or lay on ball and do them). Leg raises (where you hang in the air and rotate your knees to your chest). Get with a trainer at a gym to show you some new funky ab exercises
- Improve your nutrition to mostly eat low fat protein (chicken, fish, lean turkey, etc.) and veggies (i.e. broccoli). Mix a little fruit in there for some sweetness. You can also buy whey protein and make whey protein smoothies (2 scoops protein, ice, skim milk – blend – little peanut butter, ripe banana, more ice – blend again: tastes great). Cut out junk food (especially soda, anything loaded with high fructose corn syrup, all sweets, etc.)
- Start taking a thermogenic fat burner (will burn fat faster when your body temp rises – i.e. working out), ripped fuel 5x, or hydroxycut hardcore before your workouts. This will help provide energy for workouts during your cutting ‘diet’. These also help you burn fat and are ‘good’ supplements to use
Work hard, have fun…you should have those tone, sexy abs in ~2 months.

Comment on I have been doing ab exercises (crunches) with little progress for last two months? by Megan

Megan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:15 +0000

You need cardio also and you have to eat healthy too.

Comment on I have been doing ab exercises (crunches) with little progress for last two months? by Libby

Libby — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:32:27 +0000

When you do crunches your gaining muscles not losing fat. So if you happen to have a little fat on your belly, your abs won’t show through. I suggest doing some cardio workouts like jumping rope or running. Soon your abs will be showing through. Good Luck!!!

Comment on I have been doing ab exercises (crunches) with little progress for last two months? by darla

darla — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:28:14 +0000

It takes a while to get abs

Comment on I have been doing ab exercises (crunches) with little progress for last two months? by Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:08:35 +0000

You can’t just to crunches to see results. You need to do cardio aswell. If you do them both and really push yourself you should see results in no time.

Comment on ab exercises? by ardent_psychonaut

ardent_psychonaut — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:43:01 +0000

yeahman abs suck (friggin painful)
The only ab exercise that doesn’t get old: That machine at the gym that you sorta hang from with your forearms bearing your weight on the two padded rests while you grip the handles – draw your knees up repeatedly (or keep your legs straight if you’re tough)
You can do it with a twist to blast those obliques
Do this for 2-3 months then send pics

Comment on ab exercises? by wannabepicker06

wannabepicker06 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:09:00 +0000

I think this is a form of pilates: You lie down on your back with your hands under your buttocks for support. Then you lift both feet six inches off the ground and hold them together, and ift your head off the ground. From there, you just hold them out, or do some different leg moving patterns. For example, hold the legs together and move them in a circle a few times. Then do it again in the other direction. You can also alternate lifting your legs up and down, but the one that is down cannot touch the ground. I’m sure you can think of some more!

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Comment on ab exercises? by Jonay

Jonay — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:11:40 +0000

put your legs up in the air in a 45 degree angle and do 100 crunches in 4 sets, don’t rest make em burn. then put your legs straight up and touch your toes, don’t move you head up and down keep it still. then do that every day and drink protien drinks or creatine and you should gain lots of muscle in your abs.

Comment on ab exercises? by frispanic

frispanic — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:17:04 +0000

Try rresited ab crunches, but turn to the side as you do them to get defined obliques, but since you are a woman, you don’t want too much resistnace.