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The Perfect Abs - 3/23/2004 5:19:59 PM
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8pack
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The most popular advice for abs exercises recommend three to four times a week. Since most people just want good abdominal tone more than defined rippled muscle, it makes sense to exercise the abs with lower intensity and more frequently rather than with high intensity and less frequently. Some suggestions for regular abs exercises are to do sets in the 15-30 range, start with easy exercises and when you can, do 2 sets in a row working up to harder ones. Do not rest between sets unless really necessary. Try to do quick reps as opposed to slower reps for better abdominal growth. If you want to work off heavy rolls and excess fat then start very slowly and do short rep abs exercises.
As you become comfortable with your abs workout and progress in your trimming you will hopefully want to continue to even better body tuning.
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WRONG INFO
DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS
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RE: The Perfect Abs - 3/25/2004 8:34:38 PM
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8pack
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to me, doing more reps equals toning, and less but heavier equals bulking up. Just what I think.
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RE: The Perfect Abs - 3/25/2004 8:36:10 PM
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8pack
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bulking up will just make your muscles bigger. it won't make it look nice. toning however will give it a nice figure.
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RE: The Perfect Abs - 3/26/2004 6:45:10 AM
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Agreed. A good diet and high reps is burning alot of calories. People think there high rep workout is really toning but it's just burning fat.
People frequently combine high rep workouts with good diets and low rep/heavy workouts with a bulking diet so they develop that misconception. I just recently started believing otherwise and it makes sense.
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RE: The Perfect Abs - 3/26/2004 10:26:40 AM
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A "toned" body is really just a lean body. It's not like your muscles just hang on you limp unless you "tone" them. Fat will hang, but not muscle. And you can't burn off fat in a specific area, so if you just burn off body fat in general, you'll be amazing at how you whole body will start "toning up".
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RE: The Perfect Abs - 3/26/2004 5:35:56 PM
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GoArmy
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High reps for abs will give you good conditioning, but you'll end up with smaller muscles. I know a lot of people who do 100 crunches in a row in the hopes of getting a huge six pack, but it just doesn't work that way.
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RE: The Perfect Abs - 3/28/2004 8:29:26 AM
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cpl
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quote:
Do not rest between sets unless really necessary.
Not resting between two sets- Wouldn't that make it one long set?
Look, I know a lot of the stuff 8pack posted is being disagreed with- It's obvious, however, that his routine has worked for him- Even though it goes against what a lot of us here have learned is the norm for most. No, there is no such thing as spot reduction- You can't get rid of fat on your stomach just by doing ab exercises. I don't believe there's such thing as "toning" either- It's all muscle building and fat reduction, that's what gives the "toned" look.
No doubt about it though- 8pack, you've got the abs. With all due respect, and this coming from someone who admittedly needs to shed some fat before my own abs are worth mentioning, I think all your hard work is augmented by good genetics. Hell, great genetics. There's nothing wrong with that- But if someone comes here looking for advice on how to get abs like yours, I don't think most people would get the same results as you from the routine that you described.
In the immortal words of Alan Thicke-
Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum,
What might be right for you, may not be right for some.
That man was a genius.
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RE: The Perfect Abs - 3/30/2004 4:24:30 PM
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ok lets see,
I really didnt know much about bodybuilding a year ago, I have made mistakes. Right now I'm on Max-OT but i just started that so it has nothing to do with my abs.
I'll tell you my whole story, At the end of 7th grade, I dont know how but I got really interested in Bodybuilding(none of my family members or noone around me workout). But I didnt know anything about bodybuilding. I made big mistakes in the beggining.
I started out with doing push ups everyday before i went to sleep, just one set. I was only able to do 30, but the number kept rising, and that got me more interested in pushups. I had a goal, I wanted to reach 100. When i did reach 100, then I started different stuff like crunches(i did them everyday, no rest days, now i realize it was a big mistake). After a while, I went to Home Depot and bought screwes and metal peace, and i made myself a Pull Up & Chin Up stand in my room. I started doing that everyday too. this went on for about a year. I just kept getting more stuff like heavy bag, many dumbells, hand grips, curl bar.
By the end of 8th grade my muscles were showing. They had become really big, people really noticed them. Then I learned stuff about bodybuilding, I fixed my mistakes. Then I bought a bench press and I'm still working out. But with no mistakes(I really hope)
I'm following MAx-Ot directions exactly. And it seems to be working.
Ya and I had like 4 packs when i just did crunches, so after I started doing leg raises(everyday(again)) and that really helped me get more than 4 packs.
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RE: The Perfect Abs - 3/30/2004 7:18:14 PM
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cpl
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You seem to have a naturally low BF%- Or is there anything special you do to keep it low?
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RE: The Perfect Abs - 3/30/2004 8:12:18 PM
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8pack
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Me?? I'm not on any diet programs, I really dont watch what I eat, I eat whatever I want to eat. But at the same time, I'm really lucky my mom is a great cook and she only makes me healty food with no fat or oil in them and they still taste great.
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RE: The Perfect Abs - 3/30/2004 8:16:09 PM
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8pack
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And ya, I was never really in to the "Junk" food like chips and stuff, so I dont really eat junk food either
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RE: The Perfect Abs - 3/31/2004 4:10:57 PM
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niskyne
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Just wondering, have you ever calculated your bodyfat % ? I'm at around 11.5, and my abs aren't showing much yet.
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RE: The Perfect Abs - 4/1/2004 7:24:33 PM
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8pack
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Once i went online to see my bf and i found this site, it asked for your waist size and your weight, and it said my bf is 5% but i dont think its accurate at all, i asked many people and they said it wasnt accurate at all too
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