Thread: Question about abs/cardio

no? anybody?

You should never NOT do abs. Youre working chest right? Youre working delts right? Youre workin quads, right? Abs are a muscle group all the same. Work em.

As for the extra bodyfat... if youre gaining fat youre taking in too much fat & cals. Work on the diet and throw in some cardio. Doing some cardio wont keep you from gaining weight, especially if you do it correctly.

dont worry about it. you shoulda seen what happened to my stomach after i bulked up 35 pounds in 4 months. bye bye, boys! good abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym. continue to work the abs once a week, maybe twice, but not more. go heavy and lower the reps. it'll build them up big and then once you cut the fat those suckers will show up. even if you have gigantic abs, they wont show up unless you get your BF% down.

thanks for the input guys

du510, i have been doing abs. I usually do 3-4 exercises once a week on leg day. Ill do like 3-4 sets of 10-30 reps depending on the exercises. I do crunches, decline situps with a weight on my stomach, crunches on the big ball, and i also do hip rotations for obliques

by the way, good ol' arnie suggests not doing oblique work because doing non-oblique-targeting excercises do work the obliques a little. once you get huge obliques, they make you look fat.

from the man himself.

oddly enough i can see how big obliques can get mistaken for fat rolls of some kind lol. but in all honesty, work your abs every other day or every 3 days, abs are always a plus, but only show at low bodyfat, and mine show thanks to having 5% bf, but im guessing they will disappear at this rate on my bulk , gone from 180 to 191 so far, but they are still visible so i guess seeing them is a good testament to bulking right!

I would suggest cleaning the diet, maybe also throwing in about 20min of medium
intensity interval cardio if you are worried about your gains. I wouldn't do the
cardio more that 2-3 times a week.

i only do abs once a week when bulking, same as every other muscle group that i'm trying to build, once cutting begins i up abs to 2-3x a week

but the question is.. when do u do your cardio and abs, on your off day or after your lifting??

Originally Posted by j rizz

but the question is.. when do u do your cardio and abs, on your off day or after your lifting??

what do you mean off day?? I take abs and cardio as serious as any other day at the gym, i take a day to do them together, first abs then cardio.....