G13

Just wondering how often most people work thier abs?

WATTS

i do mine 2 times a week, they are a muscle like any other and should not be trained every day (at least in my opinion and many books/magazines i have read). but some will disagreee.

Alaric

I completely agree with you, the most I'll train is twice a week, but some weeks I'll just do it once.

musclepump

I do abs 2, sometimes 3, times a week.

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topolo

twice a week

Kracin

my abs get enough damn work holding me up, and get worked a ton at my job anyway, i try not to work them anymore because my obliques are huge and look like love handles at the moment....

Uzi9

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Kracin

lol hey, gimme a break, some people love em, some people dont. same thing with having other muscles being big, some people would love to have a huge ass chest, and other people dont care for it.

devildog88

ABS......olutely work them every day! They and your calves can take the beating!!!

"Everyone wants to win but not everyone is willing to prepare to win" Bobby Knight

MWpro

Once a week; they get enough work from other exercises.

devildog88

I still think that if you aren't doing core strength exercises then you need to work them everyday!

"Everyone wants to win but not everyone is willing to prepare to win" Bobby Knight

Duncans Donuts

Yeah, listen to this guy and you'll get nowhere in a big fuckkin hurry.

"in the howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure."

sgtneo

i do mine twice a week 5 sets with increasing resistance

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devildog88

You are a well versed man with your opinions. Probably educated at home!

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naturaltan

I revert back to my boxing mentality when it comes to working my abs. I do some abs inbetween every exercise. That is 4 times a week.

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Duncans Donuts

Thanks for the input, you mental defective dunderhead.

"in the howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure."

sgtneo

lol theres never a thread without bitching, just for the record though i would have to agree with duncan on this one, i do mine twice a week and hit them hard, they show great results

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devildog88

You are welcome.

Maybe I should rephrase this. I think it is important to work your abs everyday that you workout. In my case that would be 5 days a week. If you are a three day person then three days. Now this doesn't have to be three different excercises at three sets each. In my case I do one set every day that I work out. I also vary the type of exercise that I do. Works for me but may not for you.

"Everyone wants to win but not everyone is willing to prepare to win" Bobby Knight

devildog88

"dunderhead"? Come on, surely you can search the archives of that great mind of yours for a better reply than that? I am somewhat disappointed in the "duncan donut"!

"Everyone wants to win but not everyone is willing to prepare to win" Bobby Knight

sgtneo

yeah man get a life, you made what would seem a fairly mature reply above this post, but then you go a put this. everyone is different and train different, i personnly would not recomend hitting a single muscle group every single workout day as when are you going to give your abs enough time to recover and grow.

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devildog88

Yeah, You are right that was a somewhat smartassed comment. My apologies!

"Everyone wants to win but not everyone is willing to prepare to win" Bobby Knight

IJ300

I use to them them everyday for a warmup. Two sets of crunches and two sets of leg raises. But now doing abs twice a week with more intensity.

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Squaggleboggin

I think it depends on intensity. You could work them once a week to absolute failure, or you could give them a little something three times a week. Neither answer is really wrong; neither is right. Personally, I like working them about three times a week, three sets of weighted sit ups (nothing to intense) each time.

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fUnc17

i do them twice a week with at least 2 days rest in between. 6 sets and 2 exercises every time i work them

Heres how I train.
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Duncans Donuts

Let me spell this out for you.

You are a fucking retard. I hate this mystic bullshit about "Works for me". Tell me why it works for you? Tell me why it's optimal? Tell me why anyone should do what you say? Don't just say something that contradicts common sense. GIVE A REASON. Because you didnt' give any reason why the abs can be trained everday while everything else can't.

Then you threw in something about core strength. You think you'll get strong working your abs every day? Wow, this is amazing, another newbie parading around telling people bullshit and setting the case of exercise science back a decade. Got any reasoning behind your nonsensical statement? Besides "CUZ IT WORKS FOR ME!". I bet it doesn't, actually. I bet your midsection is as atrophied as a nutsack stacked on 2 grams of deca and half a gram of oxymeth.

Let me point out that all I did was criticize his position, initially, which I was polite about. I restrained myself. The firs thing that hit my mind, frankly, was that if you listen to this dumb fucker, you're even stupider than he is, which says a lot. This is how I know that nobody listened to him, because finding two people on this board as encompassed in sheer dimwitted buffoonery would completely shit on everything i know about statistical odds.

"in the howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure."

Duncans Donuts

Oh, you did give a reason:

From what divine source was this epiphany laid upon you? Did the notice come with all those exclamation points?

"in the howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure."

Squaggleboggin

Um, please don't tell me you just insulted his intelligence and them implied that the same things would work for all people...

There is a reason, actually. I forgot what it is, but it may have something to do with slow twitch muscle fibers. In other words, it takes a lot more exercise to tire them out, just like your calves. They get used an awful lot, and can therefore take much more exercise than the typical muscle. Plus it depends on the intensity with which they're worked.

Abs do indeed have a lot to do with core strength. They're involved in the two biggest powerlifting moves: squats and deadlifts. They're main stabilizers and get worked quite a bit when the exercises are done properly. Without strong abs, those two lifts won't be very big.

I'm not really sure what to say about this...

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