I've worked my way up to 800 situps / day by doing 400 in sets of 30 (and 1 of 40) twice a day. My question is: should I do this EVERY day or not?? I know that for arms/legs you're supposed to leave 1 or 2 days of rest between lifting workouts. Is it the same for abdominals or is it OK and beneficial to work them EVERY day??
Thanks in advance!
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Wow very informative! The thing that I hadn't realized was that every additional crunch after the workout point does more for the abs than the previous one :o... in which case doing more all at once rather than in two workouts does make sense!
I actually meant 800 crunches initially not situps; I was just confusing the two. They're definitely more effective than situps.
I do them on an exercise ball (the soft air-filled type about 3x the diameter of a basketball or so) and I recommend this method. If you lie on it so your shoulderblades are on the ball that will work the upper abs and sliding up so that your butt is on the ball works the lower abs, and of course everything in between these extremes works too. The left/right ones work as well so all the ab muscles can get a great workout. The fact that you're trying to balance on the ball works all of the stabilizer muscles in the area.
You should give it a try and see for yourself... ;)
Wow very informative! The thing that I hadn't realized was that every additional crunch after the workout point does more for the abs than the previous one :o... in which case doing more all at once rather than in two workouts does make sense!
I actually meant 800 crunches initially not situps; I was just confusing the two. They're definitely more effective than situps.
I do them on an exercise ball (the soft air-filled type about 3x the diameter of a basketball or so) and I recommend this method. If you lie on it so your shoulderblades are on the ball that will work the upper abs and sliding up so that your butt is on the ball works the lower abs, and of course everything in between these extremes works too. The left/right ones work as well so all the ab muscles can get a great workout. The fact that you're trying to balance on the ball works all of the stabilizer muscles in the area.
You should give it a try and see for yourself... ;)
