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Abs?
I've been doing sets of 100 crunches
*Partial curls front and both sides
*Whatever it's called when you lay on your back and lift your legs, turn yourself into an L, then bring your legs back down without touching the floor and back up
*bicycles (where you like try to touch your right elbow to your left knee while you move your legs like you're riding a bike)
for a few weeks. 100 when I wake up and 100 before I go to sleep.
First - am I doing enough so that I'll actually see results?
I've had trouble with crunches before because I've been on a medication that kinda caused me to gain weight and retain water. I just went off of it and supposedly I'll be able to lose the weight and fat. So ignoring the med, will I see results from what I'm doing?
Second - While I do my crunches, my abs hurt, but after, they stop. Am I doing them right? I used to exercise to the point that my abs would hurt the next day, but I only had that result once and that was from doing like 700 crunches because I felt like it.
Please lay off the chatspeak. If I have to read your answer more than once to understand it, you'll be rated down.
Thanks!
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Maybe give some free advice about: Fitness?
Honestly? You have to train until you're sore and DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness) sets in, it means you have targeted enough Type 1 and Type 2 muscle fibers in breaking them down to recreate newer, stronger ones. Simply put- Train till it hurts and diet diet diet.
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What sort of results are you after?
Sounds like you should have built up a good amount of muscle on the area, if thats what you meant. Two things I can add on this point... 1. You dont need to train so you have pain the next day 2. Instead of doing a zillion reps have you considered adding some weight to the exercise (like holding a weight behind your head in regular crunches for example... it should be more effective).
If you meant getting a flat stomach and so on, crunches and other ab workouts have little to do with it. Then you need to lose weight. Just in case you dont know, fat loss cannot be targeted to an area of the body, so doing ab workouts will have no effect there. The order of fat loss is not in our control, the only thing we can do is make our body start to lose weight. Therefore, it follows that a full body routine and proper nutrition is the key.
If you want abs of steel, which arent neccessarily visible, than you are doing ok, but if you want any other sort of result then targetting only the stomach is a total waste of time.
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