Thread: Need ab advice from those with abs

Abs are made in the kitchen.

You have to eat properly to have abs.

If ya got a layer of fat over the abs you'll never see them!
All I basically do are ab crunchs on the floor on on a flat/incline bench.

And....I do have abs!

I agree, diet is the key for most. (I cant talk, I bulked and still had abs.. Im weird tho..)
anyways you can do a million crunches and never see your abs. if you have a layer of fat covering it, they wont show. all I do for abs is 3 exercises about 1x week.

I think it's funny how the ab equipment is the most used of any equipment at 24 hour fitness, yet a VERY small percentage actually have a six pack...

DIET!

i go to a 24 hr fitness in huntington beach and it's ab machines are always filled with people. i have wait like 10 min to use one and all the people on the machines are fat.

I don't like training my abs with machines. I'd rather work on my stabalizers and core strength when I train abs and worry about my diet to get the six pack when needed.

ditto Patrick, I never used machines either. refuse too. get a much better ab workout without.
umm but I do cable crunches. lol I dont think the qualifys though :P

Not many people believe me when I say this, but maybe the best two ab exercises for me are deadlifts and squats. Especially deadlifts, I can feel my abs working and stablizing.

i train my abs 3x a week, i run 3x a week, and i eat very well.....i like trainin 3x a week, although some might say that is too much....it works for me so i keep on doin it!

I used to train my abs 3x a week, but I moved to 4x a week at a lower intensity. I do a total of 24 sets of ab exercises per week (6 sets per session). Actually, I combine the 6 sets into 3 supersets most of the time. Considering that I believe my BF% is above 15% and the top of my rectus abdominus is still visible, as well as my obliques, I think I'm doing something right...

Originally posted by JLB001
If ya got a layer of fat over the abs you'll never see them!
All I basically do are ab crunchs on the floor on on a flat/incline bench.

And....I do have abs!

I think crunches are boring, but to each his own. I do all of the following different ab exercises every week:

Bicycle Crunches
Reverse Crunches
Lying Leg Lifts
Hovers
Heel Push Crunches
Long Arm Crunches
Vertical Leg Crunches
Double Crunches

Boring maybe...but every effective.

Originally posted by JLB001
Boring maybe...but every effective.

I saw a study that ranked crunches 11 out of 13 among the most effective ab exercises in terms of rectus and oblique stimulation...

they don't look non effectvie there~~>>http://www.ironmagazineforums.com/ga...94100_0390.jpg

Someone posted a link to a study on the best ab exercises and it was I believe Bicycyle Crunches and Captain Chairs.

Actually just found the link

http://www.aerobicspot.com/topab.htm

Originally posted by JLB001
they don't look non effectvie there~~>>http://www.ironmagazineforums.com/ga...94100_0390.jpg

I've seen your pictures. I'm not saying crunches don't work the abs, but there are more effective exercises out there. You have a very low body fat percentage, which is more important than what exercises you do for ab definition anyway.

Oh fine Cow...LOL I was blessed with good abs and a bad rear. go figure! LOL

I do like doign other ab stuff, just seems to make the waist too thick, so I stick with the simple basic stuff. On occ. I do use that chair thing you sit in that is a machine with weights. That's pretty good. Hell if I know the name for it.

Originally posted by Jodi
Abs are made in the kitchen.

You have to eat properly to have abs.

Yup, but if you diet to see underdevolped abs, whats the point.

Originally posted by JLB001
Oh fine Cow...LOL I was blessed with good abs and a bad rear. go figure! LOL

I do like doign other ab stuff, just seems to make the waist too thick, so I stick with the simple basic stuff. On occ. I do use that chair thing you sit in that is a machine with weights. That's pretty good. Hell if I know the name for it.

You should try crunches on an exercise ball. That exercise is supposed to isolate the abs a lot better because you don't have to use your hip flexors as much.