I need some help i have gave myself some Ab Workouts but need advice on whether i need to change it or if its perfectly ok
2 x 50 half sits when i wake up.
1 x 50 half sits 10 Crunches then 1 x 50 half sits - 30mins after dinner.
2 sets of 50 half sits after my tea
1 x 50 half sits with 10 Crunches before i go to sleep.
i was thinking of adding plates to my Ab Workout
i am not fat i can see the Abdominal Area just cant see the defines of the abs i.e cant see the packs
and also how many days a week would some1 advice me to do this?
Right now you are only working one region out of four regions of your abs. To get the definintion it sounds like you want, you need to hit all four in a certain order.
Two defined programs that I would consider are the following:
Ab Boot Camp (free off the net):
http://musclemedia.com/training/BootCamp.asp
Ab Ripper X:
You can typically find this on eBay for $10 or less. This one of teh dvd’s from Tony Horton’s P90X program.
Both of these only take about 20 minutes total. You will only want to work your your abs every other day at most as these are muscles and you need to allow them to rest, rebuild, and recover as you would any other muscle.
Good luck!!
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my advice is slow down, your trying to do too much too fast and it doesnt work like that, you need to increase the intensity using plates as you said, but other than that you are doing way too many reps on yoru abs in a day, i would reccommend 10 minutes of ab work a day anything more and your wasting your time and training your abs for endurance rather than size, to build size you need heavy weight/intensity and low reps. which is where the weight plates come in.
its hard to grasp but your not doing your abs any favours with so many situps even though you might think you are. if i do 300 barbell curls in a day with a light weight, my biceps arent going to grow, if i do 3 sets of 8 reps with a heavy weight my biceps will grow significantly, your abs are no different all muscles work in the same way.
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Right now you are only working one region out of four regions of your abs. To get the definintion it sounds like you want, you need to hit all four in a certain order.
Two defined programs that I would consider are the following:
Ab Boot Camp (free off the net):
http://musclemedia.com/training/BootCamp.asp
Ab Ripper X:
You can typically find this on eBay for $10 or less. This one of teh dvd’s from Tony Horton’s P90X program.
Both of these only take about 20 minutes total. You will only want to work your your abs every other day at most as these are muscles and you need to allow them to rest, rebuild, and recover as you would any other muscle.
Good luck!!
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Holy Cats! That’s a lot of sitting up and down. I can’t imagine that would be so good on for your back. Especially adding weights.
I would mix up the rotuine with some simple walking. Maybe decrease the reps and increase the sets.
It seeems a bit intense and if your’re not up for it, start out easy, then work your way up. You should give abs time to rest (that’s how the muscle is built) I wouldn’t think this would be healthy on a daily basis.
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The good thing about any abdominal workout is that you can do them every day. Since you already work on that, now you’ll just need to find the correct diet to go with it. Those two should help you see the definition you’ve been wanting…
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