How can I get great abs?
I’m a competitive swimmer (4 years now). I swim up to 4 miles almost every day. When I’m not swimming I’m in the weight room. I do ab work almost every day but I still can’t seem to get well defined abs and it’s getting frustrating. What can I do to get better abs?
Doing 40 situps isn’t even close to a challenge for me. On the swim team I do up to 300 a day. I am in excellent shape, I just don’t have a nice six pack.
Thanks for the answer, though.
as your a competative swimmer, i assume your reasonable fit. however to achieve a noticable 6pack, you need to have a body fat percentage under 10%
also, you need to change the muslce groups you work, try different exercises and workouts.
and as someone has already said, you do indeed need a rest day.
August 11th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
you NEED days for your body to repair itself so alternate days that you work out on certain muscle groups. for instance do arms tuesday and thursday and torso monday, wedensday, and friday same with swimming miles. maybe only do 4 miles every 2 days or somthin just so your body can repair the muscle you are damaging (dont worry damage is a good thing)
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August 11th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
as your a competative swimmer, i assume your reasonable fit. however to achieve a noticable 6pack, you need to have a body fat percentage under 10%
also, you need to change the muslce groups you work, try different exercises and workouts.
and as someone has already said, you do indeed need a rest day.
References :
August 11th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
really depends on your body fat.
in case you have a high body fat start by doing a lot of cardio exercise until you have a low body fat by then SOMETIMES your abs are visible and you could start by doing ab workout an always have a healthy diet.
ab workout:
start doing 40 sit ups each day for week, next week 50, then 70, then do 100 for two weeks and so on.
Not only do you have to do sit ups, do like 20 push ups a day, 5 days a week for like 3 weeks, then raise the amount of push ups just like in the sit ups, but not too much, only like 10 more.
Also do like 15-20 leg raise and stuff like that.
Do "circus training" one exercise after another.
if lifting weights lay down on something. Also, the right amount of weights you”re suppose to lift is that which you can only do 7-15 reps.
You should see some results in about a month (if you do what i telling you after losing body fat but if you’re thin just start doing this).
after a couple of weeks do like 70 normal sit ups and 50 crunches with your feet up in the air, work your oblique muscles too by doing side crunches (30).
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