My crunches aren't doing me good?

Question

hello, am 15 years old and i have recently set a goal for myself to do 15000 abs exercises in a month (500 crunches a day, and 50 leg lifts).

Well heres my problem, only 2 weeks ago when i used to do only 50 crunches with my legs on the floor and my hands cupped behind my head where i go all the up to my knees, it would hurt me alot which is a sign of a good exercise.

But to my surprise, yesterday i was able to do 350 in a row and i did not really experience that pain, is this exercise not hard enough for me now? do i need to do something harder? please tell me why aren't i getting that much pain anymore.

Thank you.

Nope, i took that in consideration and the crunches were right, i even tried slowing down to see if it would be harder that way.

Answer 1

you just have to keep doing them, & keep doing them, & keep doing them be carefull, exercise will catch up with you 2 days later

Answer 2

You weren't doing them correctly. 500 crunches a day is not necessary.

You should do about 3 sets of 10-15 crunches a day, but don't do them how you have been doing them in the past. You MUST do them very slowly and with perfect form, to make sure you feel them.

It also helps if, when you get up to the top where your abs crunch, hold it there for a few secs, and 'crunch it' as hard as possible. There is no way that someone can do 350 crunches correctly in a row without experiencing some kind of pain.

Try them with your legs off the floor also.

You may want to add resistance at some point.

A few other things:

You may want to add in some bicycles to work your oblique muscles.

AND...

You should not do them EVERY day, since your muscles need time to recover, in order to grow back stronger. Do them every second day, i.e, do crunches one day, rest the next, crunches one day, rest the next etc. etc.

You will also need to be taking in more protein than you usually would if you weren't building muscle, because your muscles need it to repair and grow of course. Females need less protein than males, but you can work out how much you need. Just research some more, and investigate what I have said, and experiment some more.

Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =]

Dom

Answer 3

Muscles when exzerted builds up alot of carbon dioxide, and has alot of acid, that why you feel sore when you work out the next day, and can take up to two weeks, just keep pushing and one day you will eake up and go no pain.

Next thing as you excersise everyday or how ever many times you work out, you will not feel pain anymore, as in sore muscles.

You are getting stronger and the more you work a muscle group the more you have to increase reps etc. and no it's not about weight., but yes you can add weight such as a weight from a wrok out bench and place it on your chest and wraps your arms around it while doing your crunches. But you don't have to , just do more in one sitting then you used to do.

Lastly if it becomes esier for you, then you know your doing something right, what you are experiencing is normal. so just increase the reps or add weight.

Answer 4

Time to change up your exercise. Your body can become accustomed to exercise if you are constantly doing the same thing. Try doing the ones where you lay flat on your back and bring your legs up from the floor instead of your torso. Look up "ab exercises" and rotate through them instead of always doing the same one.

Answer 5

the muscles that make up your abs get strong really quick
so after a while you can do hundreds of thems before feeling anything. try using weight while doing crunches

Answer 6

You should up how many crunches and leg lifts than your doing and try to do some weights with them first before doing more than your used to. if its still to easy try heavier weights but not too much to strain your back. then you can do more if its still to easy.

Answer 7

You might have changed the angle, and that's making it easier. I just noticed the same thing yesterday when i was on this bicep machine. Be careful you don't hurt your lower back.