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Crunch Time
Get serious about sculpting your six-pack. this five-move workout may not be easy, but the reward — dialed-in abs — will be well worth the efforts.
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Ab Training TipsAB TRAINING TIPS
Perform reps deliberately. You’ll get much more out of your ab training if you do each repetition in a slow, controlled fashion. Pumping through reps like a piston incorporates momentum, meaning your muscles don’t do as much of the work as you want them to. It’s not the number of reps you complete; it’s the quality of each of them that counts.
Plug into a circuit. One option to increase the difficulty of the workout (and finish it faster) is to combine the weighted crunch, reverse crunch and side crunch into one tri-set, in which you move between the three without stopping in between (resting 60 to 90 seconds between tri-sets).
Mix it up. The workout here provides a solid base and is balanced to hit all areas of your midsection, but for optimal results, you’ll want to be sure to change the order of exercises from time to time, as well as switch moves in and out that hit the same area (for instance, hanging knee or leg raises for reverse crunches, V-ups for double crunches, or cable crunches for weighted crunches). That way, your workouts never get stale and you don’t give your body a chance to adapt to a particular routine.
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