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Abs?
| Thu, 03-17-2005 - 3:06pm |
What is the best way to do a good ab workout? I try to do them as s-l-o-w as possible and I do atleast 500 a day (when I workout), lately I started doing 1000 because I've heard several boxers do between 1000 to 2000. Believe it or not, as much as I work out I should be totally lean but, I'm not :-(. I do have strength in my abs, sometimes, I do 500 abs and not feel a thing. I'm not sure if my muscles are used to it or what. I do have 'some' cuts but, not completely lean.
Any suggestions?

my suggestion is to move on to another exercise. or preferably several exercises. there's no need to be doing 1000 reps of any ab exercise - if you can do that many either you aren't doing the exercise with the proper form or it's too easy for you. plus, by doing just one type of ab exercise, you are only working one part of your abs, probably through a very small range of motion.
to mix it up, you could do some exercises on the stability ball. jean would have a lot of good suggestions for that. another suggestion is pilates. pilates really helps you learn to work your transversus abdominis, which is what is going to make you look leaner and give you the most functional strength and support. plus, it's really tough, even for people who thought they had really strong abs before they started doing pilates.
Are you doing crunches?