ab training

[trendkill]

how often do u guys do abs a week... just want a general concensius.

 

[huskyguy]

3 days a week when bulking on non workout days
7 days a week when cutting

 

[Bast]

twice... dont need more, abs are a muscle like any other and will get over trained.

 

[MuffDyver]

my mother is a personal trainer and an aerobic instructor. according to her, ab training is different than regular workout training because you are not training with wieghts (that is of course if you ARENT using wieghts to do abs). so doing it everyday or every other day is fine.

P.S she does it every day and she has a 6 pak

 

[DaLinkWent]

6 pack has more do with diet and genetics and total body fat percentage than it does training

 

[iron addict]

1-2 days a week, and HEAVY. Ditch the sissy high rep LOW intensity stuff and do HEAVY sets of ten weighted situps, lat-pulley crunches, hanging leg raises, and even some of the better leveraged ab machines. Forget the traditional bodybuilding dogma that you must isolate the abs from the hip flexors. They work together when doing the big lifts like squats and deads were you need them most, so they shoukld be worked together when doing ab work.

Iron Addict

 

[Smallguy]

1-2 days a week, and HEAVY. Ditch the sissy high rep LOW intensity stuff and do HEAVY sets of ten weighted situps, lat-pulley crunches, hanging leg raises, and even some of the better leveraged ab machines. Forget the traditional bodybuilding dogma that you must isolate the abs from the hip flexors. They work together when doing the big lifts like squats and deads were you need them most, so they shoukld be worked together when doing ab work.

Iron Addict

so it is a myth that weighted abb work makes a thick waist???

 

[weasel0803]

i work em directly 3 times a week. Squats, deads and gymnastics training take care of them more than enough.

However I wouldn't use weights for training abs. I'm a skinny guy but when I did all my ab exercises weighted and low reps (6-10) I started to look like pregnant with a shirt on.

For intensity I would simply superset 2 ab exercises and focus on never letting your shoulder vlades touch the floor when performing the reps.

My favourite are v-ups(legs straight not tucked to make em harder) as many as possible supersetted with feet elevated crunches (to failure as well). After each superset take a 30 sec. to 1 min. break and repeat. 3 sets in total. That's it. No more!

I swear by the time you are reaching your 3rd set you probably will only manage 6 to 10 v-ups and less than 15 crunches. Burns like hell.

greetz

 

[gottabadrash]

plated situps and weighted knee raises 3x/ week