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How often do you guys train abs?
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 10:55 AM
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I'm not a huge fan of abs, but I would like to start training them again because I want it to help the looks of my lower chest and give me a better core strength.
How often do you guys lift abs? And is it the usual stuff like Crunches, Leg lifts, etc?
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Re:How often do you guys train abs?
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 11:38 AM
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I train abs like any other body part. Once per week. I do two different exercises for 2 sets. All sets done to failure. My two favorites personally are cable crunches and decline cruches. Some people train more frequently which is debatable but I think once a week is enough. Remember all your core lifts work your abs as well. Deadlifts, squats etc. Your abs are a muscle that need just as long to recover as any other muscle.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:04 PM
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2-3 times a week at the end of that day's particular routine so that the core does not fatigue out early into the routine.
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Re:How often do you guys train abs?
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:28 PM
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I train abs on upper days. Just one exercise for 4 sets of 10 heavy reps. If I do it right they're usually sore the next day.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:45 PM
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on shoulder day !
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:54 PM
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I usually do it 2 times a week... for 5-10 minutes non stop cycles of cable crunches, bicycles, planks, leg raises, V-ups, twists, stability ball crunches.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:59 PM
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3 sets of leg raises on leg day and some crunches, then I do some ball crunches and oblique work later on in the week. so twice a week, usually my core gets hit hard on my big lifts anyways, i don't put much emphasis on abs themselves, not like they could be seen if I did!
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 1:17 PM
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3 sets of leg raises on leg day and some crunches, then I do some ball crunches and oblique work later on in the week. so twice a week, usually my core gets hit hard on my big lifts anyways, i don't put much emphasis on abs themselves, not like they could be seen if I did!
u remind me of a mass monster friend of mine. he talks the same way. :) @ topic, actually if the core routine of the day has been done with properly, the abs would've been already warmed up to their peak potential. after that all it takes will be 3 sets of 10-15 leg raises or decline bench crunches to blast them away into oblivion. esp ab wrkouts after a full body routine are killers! btw, anyone experience irregular bowel movements after ab sessions? i mean after my ab sessions, the tummy contracts a lot and sh!tting is a problem. what could cause this? ab wrkouts burn up all the food in the body and hence there is nothing to excrete? whats going on! :-S
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 1:27 PM
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thank you for the replies.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 1:54 PM
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i don't at all, and don't feel you need to honestly but that's just my opinion
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:26 PM
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Like never, abs are sooo boring.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:38 PM
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Core work is very important and should be done on the day it is taxed the most ~ leg day or back day. Decline situps and cable crunches, as randerson mentioned, are great exercises for the core.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:47 PM
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i think i stress my core plenty with all the heavy lifting i already do
just IMO
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 4:33 PM
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5-6 days. most days i do unweighted crunches and knee raises as part of a ciruit i do first thing in the morning (pretty much tabata), and on my second workout of the week i do decline weight sit ups.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 4:57 PM
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twice a week ..... i find the best are decline weighted crunches ...
remember ... if you are doing a lot of reps ... 30,40,50, etc ... it starts to become cardio, and no longer muscle/strength building.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:58 PM
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2 times per week.
Half an hour non stop.
no machines, only body weight.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:35 AM
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abds are so fvcking boring to work on, but they need to be done. they got excellent development on heavy days, but do require some extra isolation. i do a few sets of various exercises on lifting days.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:40 AM
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I do It 4 times a week
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Re:How often do you guys train abs?
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:46 AM
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not that you can see mine, but like stated the core is a very important part of the body. I do mine about 3-4 times a week, depending how sore they are. I alternate between decline situps crunches and leg raises. only doing about 30-40 a time.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:53 AM
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not that you can see mine, but like stated the core is a very important part of the body. I do mine about 3-4 times a week, depending how sore they are. I alternate between decline situps crunches and leg raises. only doing about 30-40 a time.
The core isn't just the ab's. But my ab's get pounded pretty hard during heavy compounds, seeing that I'm on a three day routine right now I finish up every session with hanging leg raises, sit ups or planks, compounds tax so much energy out of me that I usually don't even have time for that and have to go back before bed and do some sit ups or etc.
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Re:How often do you guys train abs?
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:56 AM
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At the moment, it's every other day and it consists of the following:
Decline Crunch
Plank-into-Superman Position(Seriously)
Resistance Crunch
Soon I'll break it down to 6 times a week, 3 hypertrophy days and 3 endurance days.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:15 PM
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suprises me to hear how often some train abs. I used to do that and just speaking from personal experience I never got anywhere. What is it about abs that people think are differnt than say chest. You wouldn't train your chest 5 times a week, would you. I think many would be suprise if they keep there diet clean, core lift and train abs like any other muscle. Hit is with 4-7 sets to positive muscle failure. If you keep breaking it down it never rebuilds itself.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:13 PM
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Training ab's isn't relevant to training chest, ab's are primarily worked every single day regardless. They're pounded during compound movements and some everyday activities. Therefore they are more prone to being worked and it's better to work them 3-4 times per week than an exercise that can be overtrained easier like a deadlift.
People think about overtraining yet they do not know what exactly they're overtraining. You overtrain the CNS (Central Nervous System), not the muscle tissue. Muscle tissue is only overtrained when injured. If you aren't repairing between workouts you're malnurishing the muscle tissue and catabolism is kicking in.
Let's also keep in mind, no one every goes heavy on ab's, not usually anyway. It's more like a 3 x 20 or 5 x 10. Not like a 5 x 5, so the intensity cannot be compared between a heavy bench press or squat in comparison to a sit up. It's not likely a sit up is going to fatique the CNS.
With this in mind, a few sets of ab movements at the end of each session is completely fine. It's worked everyday regardless.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:12 PM
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i do them about 3-4 times a week, usually i do about crunches and weighted plank and side planks, may start to add some leg raises in also
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:46 PM
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Why do most on here work out the abs so often .... most have said 3-4 times week ... even more?
If people are looking at getting bigger abs, they should do weighted crunches or whatever ... which means they shouldnt really be working them out more than twice a week .... is this not correct???
Not trying to pick on any ones routines ... but just curious to know as to why some train them so often?
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:52 PM
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Why do most on here work out the abs so often .... most have said 3-4 times week ... even more?
If people are looking at getting bigger abs, they should do weighted crunches or whatever ... which means they shouldnt really be working them out more than twice a week .... is this not correct???
Not trying to pick on any ones routines ... but just curious to know as to why some train them so often?
As stated, there's nothing wrong with working ab's 3-4 times per week. Results speak for themselves, ab's are worked everytime you train regardless. So 1 ab exercise after each session will do nothing, although it's more frequency and less volume, they are different from other muscle groups for this reason. As I've already said, it's not likely ab isolation is going to overload someone's CNS, the only way to overtrain the ab's is to injure them which should really only come from too much work. If their ab's aren't repairing, it's due to malnutrition, catabolism, they aren't providing their body with enough protein to grow. Most people do 3 sets of ab work after each workout, it's not likely 9 total sets directly for that muscle groups is going to "kill" their ab's.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:40 PM
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3x a week for me on lifting days. I try to switch it up every now and then but usually I do weighted decline sit ups with twists at the end of my set.
I try to treat it as any other muscle group, plus they get worked during the big compound lifts.
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Re:How often do you guys train abs?
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Friday, March 20, 2009 3:28 AM
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The_Bull
Why do most on here work out the abs so often .... most have said 3-4 times week ... even more?
If people are looking at getting bigger abs, they should do weighted crunches or whatever ... which means they shouldnt really be working them out more than twice a week .... is this not correct???
Not trying to pick on any ones routines ... but just curious to know as to why some train them so often?
As stated, there's nothing wrong with working ab's 3-4 times per week. Results speak for themselves, ab's are worked everytime you train regardless. So 1 ab exercise after each session will do nothing, although it's more frequency and less volume, they are different from other muscle groups for this reason.
As I've already said, it's not likely ab isolation is going to overload someone's CNS, the only way to overtrain the ab's is to injure them which should really only come from too much work. If their ab's aren't repairing, it's due to malnutrition, catabolism, they aren't providing their body with enough protein to grow. Most people do 3 sets of ab work after each workout, it's not likely 9 total sets directly for that muscle groups is going to "kill" their ab's.
i understand what you are stating ... and if you are getting results, then you must be doing something right .... I love doing abs exercises, as i have great genetics and have good size abs already, and always like to see them get better .... I normally do them twice a week, and on my abs day ill do about 6 sets
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Friday, March 20, 2009 4:07 AM
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I workout for my abs thrice in a week.
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Friday, March 20, 2009 7:31 AM
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i understand what you are stating ... and if you are getting results, then you must be doing something right .... I love doing abs exercises, as i have great genetics and have good size abs already, and always like to see them get better .... I normally do them twice a week, and on my abs day ill do about 6 sets
What you're doing can work too. You're overloading the ab's using high volume, less frequency, others (some) prefer to use high frequency, low volume. Either can work and no way is better than the other.
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