How does a person tone their stomach muscles?

[Guest]

What would you need to do, in order to tone your stomach muscles and give you an ultra flat stomach?

Are we talking sit ups?

For example - 50/100 sit up’s per day?

Basically I have no clue, so what exercises would you have to do in order to give you better stomach muscles?

Any advice?

Cheers.

(Btw, I couldnt find the exercise section to post this in.)

 

[pbz]

Basically - I think the best thing you can do is to combine ~20 to 40 minutes of running each day with 5x20 sit-ups in the morning and 5x20 before bed.

 

[gonna_win]

Gonna_win's guide to getting a flat stomach

1. eat right: eating to much and getting bloated by going to all you can eat buffet's can lead to streching your stomach giving you a put bell or gut. Your stomach area is on of the places that the male body stores alot of fat if you eat right and in correct amounts you will reduce the amount of body fat you have including the stomach area.

2. exercise. You have to do it every day, 7 days a week commitment is the key. Now doing situp's does not actually exercise the abdomen best. We can break the abdomen into 4 parts. top, bottom, left and right each part need's to be exercised in order to obtain a flat stomach. Here are some exercises to perform.

A. lie down and and put your hands behind your head legs stright. look forward at the sky/roof now lift your head and shoulders keeping your eye's straight until you see your toes.

B. lie down and and put your hands behind your head legs stright. look forward at the sky/roof. Now lif your legs and keep the straight until you can see your toes with your eyes at this point you backside should have left the ground a few cm's leaving your waist up to your head on the ground.

C. Lie down on your side as if you were standing up straigh with your arms straight down each side of your body. Get the arm that is closer to the sky/roof to attempt to touch your toe while keeping straight(this wont acctually be possible)

roll onto your other side to do the other side of your abdomen.

3. you need to do these exercises until you cannot do anymore. Your ab's will feel very sore the next day. But you need to keep doing it eventually they will not feel sore anymore and ajust to the exercises and after a few months you will get a flat stomach and rock hard abs.

 

[Shave my poodle]

As they say "Abs are made in the kitchen not the gym",

If your diet is wrong no amount of situps will give you a flat stomach.

 

[Guest]

Gunner, why are you worried about abs. You have for more worse things to think about. You really are starting to worry me!!

 

[Guest]

Gunner, why are you worried about abs. You have for more worse things to think about. You really are starting to worry me!!

What do you mean by that?

 

[Guest]

As they say "Abs are made in the kitchen not the gym",

If your diet is wrong no amount of situps will give you a flat stomach.

What's your idea of a good diet?

 

[Why me?]

Gunner....

I can help you out with a good diet plan if you are serious about it.

Abs are EASY to accomplish but you got to be serious/strict on your diet and program.


PM me if you need/want advice bro.

 

[Juan Carlos Mederra]

abs like any muscle shouldn't be trained every day. It is a common misconception, that the more you train your abs the more likely you will get a 6 pack. Would you train your biceps every day with 5 sets of 20 reps..hell no!!!...that is called overtraining and you won't get any gains at all.
Do 2-3 days a week cardio + train your abs 2-3 times a week with weights and low reps. no more that 12-15 reps with 2 -3 sets each.

 

[Guest]

Gunner, why are you worried about abs. You have for more worse things to think about. You really are starting to worry me!!

What do you mean by that?

You always seem so worried about your hair, now you will probably worry about how your abs are. But please send some before and after pics

 

[BadHairDecade]

abs like any muscle shouldn't be trained every day. It is a common misconception, that the more you train your abs the more likely you will get a 6 pack. Would you train your biceps every day with 5 sets of 20 reps..hell no!!!...that is called overtraining and you won't get any gains at all.

Agreed

Do 2-3 days a week cardio + train your abs 2-3 times a week

Agreed

Do 2-3 days a week cardio + train your abs 2-3 times a week with weights and low reps. no more that 12-15 reps with 2 -3 sets each.

THis is where I disagree, sort of.... THis all depends on your goal. If you just want to tone up and flatten the stomach then NO weight should be used and you should go for higher reps.
If you want to bulk up your abs with the possibility of increasing your waist size. Then weights should be used. Cardio and diet are the key to visible abs. You can work them all you want, but if your diet is sh*t, you'll never see them.

 

[Axon]

As they say "Abs are made in the kitchen not the gym",

If your diet is wrong no amount of situps will give you a flat stomach.

What's your idea of a good diet?

Fish, chicken, vegetables. I eat some cereal and wheat bread toast for breakfast along with egg whites. People say it's bad, but I don't care.

 

[Why me?]

Everyone has their opionons on what to do.... most of your guys are good and make some sense.....but you guys are missing a KEY ingrdiant to all of this..


TAKE NO MORE THEN A 30 SEC rest in between sets.... and also remember to burn your Abs slow reps and BREATH.

Abs are the easiest of all muscles to work/build because their are so many exercises for them and if doing them correctly you will always feel them burning.

Train them like you would any other small muscle group... like your Traps, Calves they all need extra attention so 3 days a week is perfect

 

[Rawbbie]

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[The Gardener]

600 situps? Only an Heroic Warrior could attempt such feats... HeMan, save us!

 

[not me!]

600 situps? Only an Heroic Warrior could attempt such feats... HeMan, save us!

HAHA

that was funny, but in actuality far from truth.

In bootcamp, we regularly had these stupid "Day of 1,000 pushups" or "Day of 1,000 situps" dreamed up by our RDC's. It was only about one day a week that we would do something THAT extreme but it was on top of a regular boot-camp exercise schedule.

600 pushups in a day is not impossible.

I USED to be able to do 500 at a time. Not now, though. I find situps to be useless for my current goals.

 

[Pirate Commander F.B.]

Definitly you need to do cardio excercise for your abs to show. Problem is that most people go crazy when they start working out and then get themself injured or they get fatigued. First few months are a conditioning and learning experience.

I'm just setting up a small home gym myself at the moment. I couldn't justify the stupid prices of the gym club because I found myself gravitating to old sqeaky machines and free weights anyway. Don't like those fancy new-fangled crap machines.

I've been doing cardio now for 20 minutes every second day for the past 5 weeks, just to get back into things and get my recovery rate down again. But I've already seen my heartrate in rest go down from 63 to 57 and I haven't even gotten serious yet. The gut is getting smaller too. Another couple of weeks and I will start increasing my workout.

Just goes to show that you don't need to kill yourself in the gym. It's a longterm commitment. Make sure you don't overtrain cause you WILL give up. Results come with time and consistency.

 

[Temples]

I remember reading something about the world record holder for situps still had a noticable gut.

Do cardio. Graduallly work up to 7 days for maximum fat burning.

 

[not me!]

I remember reading something about the world record holder for situps still had a noticable gut.

Do cardio. Graduallly work up to 7 days for maximum fat burning.

That's true. Everyone has a "perfect six pack." It's the layer of fat covering those abdominals that you want to get rid of.

You really wouldnt need to run 7 days per week. Running isnt the be-all-end-all of cardiovascular excercise - swimming is. If its possible, go with an alternating schedule between the two.

 

[Temples]

Or trampolining.