Top Tips For Amazing Abs
68With summer coming, the primary concern on most people's minds is what they should be doing with their midsection. Far too many have had quite the number of indulges over the holiday season and spring when they could conveniently cover their abdominals behind clothing. Now with the weather warming up and the beach calling, it's time to get down to business.
The following tips will help you make the most out of your ab training.
Get Your Diet In Line
Diet is probably 75% or more of the results you see with your abs so before anything else, make sure you are on a sound diet approach. If you struggle with this, invest with a good nutritionist or personal trainer. It will be well worth your money because regardless of how many crunches you do, if your diet doesn't have you losing body fat, you will never see your abs.
Take A Break From Ab Training
Some people have the tendency to believe that they must train their abdominals on a daily basis and this is quite far from the truth. Just like any other muscle in the body, you should try hitting it very hard and then allowing it to rest and recover. Working them every other day will definitely be effective enough.
Skip The Weighted Abs
If your goal is solely to have a leaner midsection, avoid doing a lot of weighted ab work. This will definitely help you get stronger ab muscles, however it could also cause you to add additional size to your abs - something that may actually end up making you look wider. Instead, increase the difficulty by adding more dynamic movements to your program, as these are the ones that will keep you lean and help burn calories.
Go For Form Over Duration
Remember that it is far better to perform ten sit-ups using the correct form than race through thirty where the only thing you are working is your arm muscles (pulling your head up). Proper form is essential on any abdominal exercise if you hope to see results.
Slower Is Always Better
Generally speaking, the slower you can move through a movement, the better off you will be. This will ensure you are not using momentum to help you at all and instead are really calling the muscle fibres into play.
Reduce Your Base Of Support
Any time you can reduce your base of support you will work your abs harder. This could be accomplished by performing your exercises on an exercise ball, sitting on a surface where you are unbalanced (on a wide beam for example), or by lifting your legs off the floor when you are doing simple abdominal crunches (since less of your body will be touching the ground, this in effect reduces the base of support).
Try A New Exercise Each Day
The abdominal muscles in particular are very quick to adapt to whatever stress you place upon them. For this reason, try challenging yourself with a new exercise every day. For the most part you can keep your regular routine steady for a period of four to six weeks (at which point there should be a complete overhaul), but if each individual session you try and do one thing that is different, you will definitely see more progress and will also help to prevent boredom as well.
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So make sure you pay particular attention to your ab training in the next few weeks. With a proper program and diet there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to get your abs in much better condition by the hot summer months.
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