I’m 13 years old and I’ve had almost 3 years of martial arts training since i was nine then i stopped and its been a year and i use to have abs and stuff like that.So i was wondering what are some exercies of routines to build abs and muscles? plus how long do you think i should do the exercies? when should i do them? how many times a week too? plus please dont say im obsessed over my weight because i’m not i just want to have those muscles again and i need help.Don’t say go to the gym because my parents cant aford it.
I dont want to lose weight! i want to get fit! they are two complete different things!

i’m around your age (a little older, almost 15) and i got really flat abs with….
*drum roll please*
pilates!!!
pilates is the absolute best thing you can do for your core. it lengthens and strengthens your entire abdominal area. and the best part: you don’t need any equipment at all! of course, a mat and comfy clothes are nice, but not required. buy/rent some pilates dvds or books. forget about the gym.
i try to do some core work every day, even if it’s just a little bit here and there. on some days i do a more intense ab workout, with weights and a balance ball and stuff like that, but only 2-3 days a week. i don’t want a six pack; i just want to maintain the flat, strong stomach i’ve managed to get with pilates i eat pretty much whatever i want and my belly stays flat.
btw- i do sports like swimming, water polo, and running, and believe me: having strong abs has improved my athletic performance immensely. plus, pilates makes you so much more aware of your body, especially your posture, and it’s really good at giving you that sleek, strong dancer’s body, as opposed to a boxy, muscular, unfeminine look that you get from weightlifting or whatever.
oh, and also try YOGA!!! it’s good for more than just stretching

I am in high school. i really want a six pack to impress this girl i know. She is really nice and fun to be around. She allready likes me, but i want her to see that i have some muscle. We are going to the pool soon, and i keep stalling. wat is the fastest way to get a six pack. Like is there some kind of secret, or workout that will get me the abs i want? i dont care, as long as it doesnt involve me spending a whole lot of money. Please help me.

Fastest way to get a six-pack is to go to the soft drink aisle at Wally World and pick up one off the shelf.

Now, the best way to develop abdominal muscle definition is a two-step process that has no shortcuts, even though internet sites and comic book ads suggest otherwise.

Step one is to lose the fat that covers the muscles. The muscles are there, but if they’re covered over by cheeseburgers and french fries nobody will see them. Make sense? of course it does. Muscles need protein, so eat foods that are high in protein. If you eat fatty meats to get protein, you’ll just have that much more fat to get rid of, so stay away from the cheeseburgers. Think lean, get mean. Got it? Lean steak and fresh vegetable salad is a terrific combination. Just use a little lemon juice for salad dressing instead of pouring on the ranch or mayo. Also, drink lots and lots of water every day. About three quarts (QUARTS!) a day. That will help flush out the fatty stuff, and you’ll eat less because you won’t feel as hungry.

Step two is to exercise the muscles you want to develop. Curl ups and leg lifts will do the trick for your abs, but you can build muscle faster if you do hard physical labor. Once upon a time, young men could go work in a coal mine or sign aboard a sailing ship to find hard labor. These days you might join a volunteer group like Habitat for Humanity or get a job on a construction crew. Haul a few tons of building materials around for a few weeks and you’ll look like Atlas himself!

Step three of my two step process is don’t worry about it. If you’re worthwhile, your young lady will like you just the way you are.

Best Regards,
Grandpa Frank
Indianapolis

What exersises i need to do?? how can i get them?

What you should do is try doing yoga to stretch yourself out for exercises. crunches obviously… but make sure to rotate to different sides when you do it. ex: first you do a crunch like normal from the middle then the next time to the right, then to the left and so on. Running is another good idea. also you should drink lots of water for this boosts your metabolism.

I need a good workout that will help me loose weight and give me 6 pack abs. If there are any workouts and exercises that i can do thta would be great. Please explain them to if there hard to understand. Thanx!

run (or walk swim or cycle) do 200 sit ups for 5 days a week, and eat healthy.

how do i get ripped abs fast? I’m going on holiday in four months and want to try hard to get ripped abs - how can I do it. I need to loose about a stone to loose the belly but need to improve the muscle

It can be done in 4 months, first of all eat a lot less to lose the far first and stick with a bike/treadmil (EVERY DAY). When the fat is gone, look on youtube for "6 pack fast" and there’s loads of vids on there. Don’t try to get abs with any fat on your belly, you’ll be wasting your time

I really need strong abs for cheerleading and dance, and fast!! What are some tips and exercises i can do to get strong abs? And lose my belly fat. HELP!!

You will need to get a strong core. Running will also help since it pumps blood and works your endurance. Look around on Google for some ab workouts. I posted some websites below for you to check out. Also try looking at Youtube videos cause those also help Good luck! Also I find it easier to do it with someone else because it gets boring after a while. Plus, it also pushes you to keep up with each other

I am a 13 year old boy and I am doing some vigorous ab workouts to try to get a six pack. I still have some fat above my lower abs. I have some upper abs forming but I’m still having trouble with the lower abs. How do I get the lower abs to form and and the fat to go away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOri5Tlm23c
this is my ab workout any tips

Well, no matter how vigorous you are working your abs this will ONLY shape your abs in the best way possible. But to lose this extra fat on your lower abs you need to work your main muscles, this will make your body lose the extra fat from any area and your belly fat will come in its order. Also don’t forget to eat the right foods and don’t eat too much. Whole body training routine with the right diet are very effective. So keep doing abs workouts and do the other things I just told you about….

Also check this video to learn the right way to get 6-pack abs >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaNTq37c3e8

well i can’t afford a gym but i really want flat abs i weigh in at 115 and im 5′4.

Im looking for this type of muscle:
http://www.musclegaintruth.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/woman-6-pack-abs.jpg

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.healthnlifestylemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/flat-tummy-stomach.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1126878&usg=__Z_at_nsJh6JfUODfyldRmCB6IE4=&h=366&w=300&sz=38&hl=en&start=0&tbnid=PXOndyyfagHdmM:&tbnh=132&tbnw=106&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfemale%2Bflat%2Babs%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D893%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C500&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=407&vpy=179&dur=1577&hovh=248&hovw=203&tx=103&ty=134&ei=zjNLTIiTLcG88gbx-vky&page=1&ndsp=36&ved=1t:429,r:31,s:0&biw=1280&bih=893

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i594.photobucket.com/albums/tt27/xicathedog/Abs.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.momsfightingfat.com/2009/07/flat-abs-fast-empty-promises-or-is-it.html&usg=__UpNDYHQeqrP9RhTO1rYf-zZ9gCY=&h=274&w=420&sz=12&hl=en&start=0&tbnid=CHrH_dTUxgPcUM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=167&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dflat%2Babs%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D893%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=189&ei=CTRLTPmOOsuKnQeUxczjDQ&page=1&ndsp=40&ved=1t:429,r:15,s:0

I always thought of does abs as the sexy feminine kind that most victoria secrets model carry, that im so jealous of . But every work out i do i cant get these type of abs. So what is good diet of food and workout that would at least get me to that, i mean i got a little muscle but its doesn’t show up side way or sticks out a lot lol =P.

My body as of right before:
http://s630.photobucket.com/albums/uu26/Sapphireheartz/?action=view&current=abs.jpg&newest=1

My body now ( it looks sorta weird cause one part of the shirt and i was a little slanted btw) :
http://s630.photobucket.com/albums/uu26/Sapphireheartz/?action=view&current=002-7.jpg&t=1279997735951
I think the pants in the 2nd pic made my body look weird butt yeah how do i achieve the body in first pictures
And heres another pic of the abs i want if you couldn’t understand the first 3
http://s92.photobucket.com/albums/l17/watkinstar/?action=view&current=colombiatrip2009111.jpg&newest=1

you just need to stick with it. i like the new york city ballet work out dvd ( i think you can find some of it on youtube) but you just need to keep with it a lot.

i dance 6 days a week (right now, 7 hours a day) and we all do more crunches on the side when we’re not busy. we also do them in our extra classes like jazz, modern and pilates. then i do more when i come home. i’m not saying you need to be crazy about it (i mean, we’re all doing them for different reasons… we’re dancers, we want them for the strength… it seems like you just want how it looks) but you just have to give it more than a few days and go to failure. do more than you think you can.

Hey!

So to begin I’m 14 years of age. I’m 5′2 and weight 140lbs. I would like to go down to 120-125lbs.

The things I hate about my body are my butt and my thighs. (I have stretch marks on my thighs.) The thing I hate the MOST about my body are my breasts. Which I find large. I am very self conscious about the upper half of my body, I wear hoodies all the time.

I’m a teenager and I pretty much do what teenagers do. I love staying home and lounging around. Going on my laptop all day. Texting & listening to music. I like staying home and relaxing since it is my summer vacation. Having all nighters. Going to bed at 6AM and waking up around 4-5PM. Sometimes I go a whole night without sleeping. I snack when I wake up around 4. Then I eat supper and snack again after that. I pretty much eat all the time. And I’m really not in the mood of calculating every calorie of my meal. I think it’s time consuming and will discourage me even more. I am the type that gets discouraged very easy.

I have spent countless hours trying to search on the internet how to lose weight at my age and things I should eat. I get fed up reading all the work it requires and the time and dedication it needs to see results. Then catch myself eating more because I don’t know what else to do.

I love playing soccer. (+ run the field with the ball) I play alot and have already seen the muscles on my legs become defined instead of being flabby. But I’m not sure if playing 2 hours of soccer every morning as my daily exercise will be enough to lose weight. I love walking around my city. (I also need things to do indoors while it rains) I was thinking on running the stairs in my building and doing crunches every night. But I have read on some sites that crunches don’t help losing belly fat and just define abs but to see the abs you have to lose the fat first.

So to get things straight, I AM mentally ready to make changes with my sleeping and eating habits. And be more positive about losing weight. My biggest concern is if I can lose the weight at my age? Since I’m young and still in the process of growing?

Anyways, tyvm for taking the time to answer my question,

- Sam, (:

Get into a sport, get outdoors a bit more, its really not that bad. Stop eating snacks all the time, you are doing this because your bored not hungry. Excercise and eat healthy, if you dont change your ways now you will be stuck in this phase forever.

Okay, so I’m 14 and I really want 6 pack abs (or close) as fast as I can get ‘em. I’m not overweight but not super skinny and I want to feel as comfy as possible in a bikini this summer. I’ve been doing 200 crunches and 50 leg-lifts every afternoon for the past 3 days and can see my abs taking shape slightly but I want to know if there’s anything I can do to speed this up. Any help would be great. Thanks!

If you have been doing lots of crunches lately and in the past you probably have great abs already!! What you are doing is called target training but it really wont give you the abs you want to see as fast as you could by different training..

Your ab muscles are concealed under a layer of body fat be it thin or heavy…you want to get that body fat off the abs which is one of the first places it collects and the last places it leaves.

You must cut out sugars in your diet and carbs or starches that turn into sugars….those sugars get stored as fat…
You can keep doing your crunches for exercise but better would be lots of fast walking or jogging. Hit the track at your school or walk up and down the bleachers.. You will be burning fat right of your great abs so they can be seen.