One thing I’ve found over the years is that a guy with a lot of muscle and 12 percent body fat can see his abs just as well or better than a guy who is 10 percent body fat with smaller abs with less muscle. I will guess that this is a woman who asked this question, because most guys aren’t going to be too concerned with their upper and lower abs getting bigger, because really it’s easier to see your abs when they’re bigger. Should I be targeting my abs with exercises at all if I want to shrink my waist, or should I just stick to training other parts of my body with weights so my abs get trained along with them? If I try to target my abs am I just going to end up building my obliques and upper and lower abs, defeating the purpose? But, I wouldn’t go and be too ambitious if I want to focus on squat strength. So, you can make it into a THREE exercise tri-set or a FOUR exercise circuit if you want to move those abs up and cut down some of the rest of the time. My hamstrings contract when I do bench press, because everything is being contracted there and so I would not do abs before I did bench press.Īgain, into the second superset then I might go from bench press and something else first and then into dumbbell press and dumbbell row, then throw the abs in there to speed things up. You certainly could do it for bench press, but again if you’re doing heavy bench press it’s a total body exercise. So, the only thing I’m going to say there is that be conservative and maybe WAIT until your second superset if you have squats and dead lifts in the first. Obviously, you don’t want to be dead lifting with bad form and weak abs. You’re going to be very fatigued, and any time you do something in a state of fatigue your form breaks down. So, you don’t want to go and do stability ball roll outs, followed by a plank, and then go and try to do dead lifts, because that’s going to be very fatiguing.
…if you are doing barbell squats or dead lifts and you’re training at under 10 repetitions, you certainly don’t want to be fatiguing your abs. It goes on and says he doesn’t want to spend a lot of time in the gym, he wants to be very efficient, but would doing it that way yield the same results as doing the ab exercises.
My number one question is whether it’s better to do specific ab workouts or best to incorporate them into other training? Can I get the same results if I do ab sets in between my sets of lifting, squatting, pull ups, etcetera? I hope you read it, but if not, head back to part 4.įor today, however, I want to share some ways in which you can train your abs that will not only strengthen your core and prevent back injuries, but also ways in which women can train their abs without getting a big bulky waistline. It might seem like no big deal, but this simple little technique will make sure you’re actually working your abs and other muscles. In last day’s Abs Q & A excerpt I revealed a nifty little trick to activate your abs more during a workout.
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