as often as necessary.
but the days you know you cannot workout your abs are the days that your abs are hurting from a previous workout session. This means that your muscles are depleted of proper nutrition due to the workout so it will need time to build. once it stops hurting (finishes “building”), then you may want to do an ab workout again.
the amount of workouts per week depends on the person & intensity level of the workouts.
the muscles of the mid-section are no different from any other muscle group(s) they need to recover from exercise. that being the case if you use weighted abdominal exercise then you want to give them the standard 48 hours between training session. if you are performing sit-ups, crunches, etc. just using body weight you can do them daily but it’s not necessary. 2-3x a week is sufficient.
fat too many people neglect training the lower back and focus on the abs. this creates a great muscle imbalance between these opposing muscles and is a major cause of lower lumbar injury in adults. muscles work in pairs and the only way to maintain balance between them is to exercise them both equally. the abdominal and the erector spinae are the muscles used to bend the spine forward and backward
Variety of exercise is the key I have found. For example..an exercise called Mountain Climbers.
Mountain climbers are done by starting in a pushup position
and then shuffling your feet in and out so that your knees are
moving in under your chest and then back out to starting
position. It sort of resembles climbing a mountain but flat on
the floor. If you want an advanced version, you can also
shuffle your hands 8-10 inches forward and backward in
addition to the leg movements. This really makes it a full
body exercise and MUCH more difficult than standard mountain climbers.
After finishing each exercise, rest about 30 seconds before
starting the next exercise. Rest about 1-2 minutes after
completing each “tri-set” before repeating.
This will give you one of the best ab workouts you’ve ever had
without even doing any direct ab exercises. You’ll see what I
mean after you try it!
Once you get away from the myth that a 1000 crunches and 500 situps a day is all you need to do for great abs, then amazing results can be seen.
There is a completely free 65 page ebook at http://www.projext.co.uk that you can download (no catch!) and it is excellent.
August 12th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Abs are one muscle group that you can workout every day and are easy to do at home. This will give you the best results.
August 12th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
as often as necessary.
but the days you know you cannot workout your abs are the days that your abs are hurting from a previous workout session. This means that your muscles are depleted of proper nutrition due to the workout so it will need time to build. once it stops hurting (finishes “building”), then you may want to do an ab workout again.
the amount of workouts per week depends on the person & intensity level of the workouts.
August 12th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
the muscles of the mid-section are no different from any other muscle group(s) they need to recover from exercise. that being the case if you use weighted abdominal exercise then you want to give them the standard 48 hours between training session. if you are performing sit-ups, crunches, etc. just using body weight you can do them daily but it’s not necessary. 2-3x a week is sufficient.
fat too many people neglect training the lower back and focus on the abs. this creates a great muscle imbalance between these opposing muscles and is a major cause of lower lumbar injury in adults. muscles work in pairs and the only way to maintain balance between them is to exercise them both equally. the abdominal and the erector spinae are the muscles used to bend the spine forward and backward
August 12th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Variety of exercise is the key I have found. For example..an exercise called Mountain Climbers.
Mountain climbers are done by starting in a pushup position
and then shuffling your feet in and out so that your knees are
moving in under your chest and then back out to starting
position. It sort of resembles climbing a mountain but flat on
the floor. If you want an advanced version, you can also
shuffle your hands 8-10 inches forward and backward in
addition to the leg movements. This really makes it a full
body exercise and MUCH more difficult than standard mountain climbers.
After finishing each exercise, rest about 30 seconds before
starting the next exercise. Rest about 1-2 minutes after
completing each “tri-set” before repeating.
This will give you one of the best ab workouts you’ve ever had
without even doing any direct ab exercises. You’ll see what I
mean after you try it!
Once you get away from the myth that a 1000 crunches and 500 situps a day is all you need to do for great abs, then amazing results can be seen.
There is a completely free 65 page ebook at http://www.projext.co.uk that you can download (no catch!) and it is excellent.
It helped me greatly.