How do i get abs?

Question

A Six Pack would be nice :]

Answer 1

First, here are a few workouts that might help you get your abs. They all have exercises that target the lower abs and upper abs with exercises other than the standard crunch:

Exercise Sets x Reps

Ab workout 1
Cable Crunch 2 x 10
Hanging Leg Raise 2 x 15
Standard Crunch 2 x 25

Ab workout 2
Cable Crunch 4 x 12,12,12,12
Standard Crunch 4 x 20,20,25,25
Reverse Crunch 4 x 15,15,20,20
Tuck Crunch 4 x 15,15,20,20

Ab Workout 3
Standard Crunch 4 x 15,15,15,15
Hanging Leg Raise 4 x 12,12,12,12
Exercise Ball Crunch 4 x 15,15,15,15
Exercise Ball Pull-In 4 x 12,12,12,12

Source: http://www.build-muscle-and-burn-fat.com/best-ab-workouts.html

The bad news is that crunches alone won't get you the 8 pack abs you are looking for...

If you only do crunches, consider this:

Each minute you spend crunching burns about 9 calories. Now, lets say that you do 40 crunches per minute. If a pound of fat is 3,500 calories, you would need to more then 15,000 crunches to burn a pound of fat.

The fact is that you probably already have abs, but they are covered by a thin layer of fat.

To get your body fat down and reveal your abs, you should slightly reduce your calorie intake.

The best way to do this is by lowering your carbohydrate intake. This causes your body to switch from primarily burning carbs for energy to burning fat. A general rule of thumb is to lower your calories from carbs to 40% of your total calories per day. The souce below has a calculation you can use to determine how many carbs you should be eating per day.

You should replace some of those calories from carbs with calories from protein. When trying to burn extra fat, you should also get around 40% of your calories from protein sources.

This will leave 20% of your calories for good fats. Some sources of good fats include avacados and olive oil (great on salads!).

These calories should be spread over six small meals per day to keep your metabolism high to burn fat faster.

Remember this saying: "Abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym."

Keep up your workout routines and stay dedicated to a clean diet, and you should see your abs in no time!

Answer 2

Well the key to getting great lookin abs is not doin sit ups but burning fat. Everyone has abs but most are covered by a layer of fat. If you feel your stomach you can probably feel your ab musles underneath. They key is to get those abs to show. To do this u have to burn fat on your stomach by ways of cardio and high reps of crunches, leg raises, and obliques. Scientificaly your abs will start to show after you have reached a BMI of 8 or lower. Also diet plays a important role. Its about 60 percent of the game. You must maintain a high protein low fat diet. The low fat is essential.

a simple ab routine would be:

30 mins of cardio (running,swimming, jogging, riding a bike)

crunches (slow and tight for 1min straight)
leg raises (ditto)
Obligue crunches (ditto)
bicycle crunches (ditto)
Reapeat the crunches thru Bicycle exercises 3 times for a total of 12 minutes. take very little rest in between.

Good luck.

Answer 3

Everybody will tell you to get that six pack to do more situps, crunches, and etc. But diet counts as well... I have a four pack...just can't give up some of the finer foods in life and time is no longer on my side.... I'm 46... it just depends what is important to you.

Answer 4

Sit-ups or any other exercise that works the abs will BUILD the abs.

The fat that covers the abs, hiding them from view...
Cadio, and lots of it. Add a good diet, and you'll loose the fat Once the fat is gone, you'll see the abs. :D

Answer 5

sit ups, the best way to get a six pack......keep the hardwork up we need more ppl with six packs!!!!

Answer 6

You should already have abs, if you want nice ones you should work out.

... and probably not drink that six pack.

HAHA!!! I'm so funny..........

Answer 7

what a genius question...the answer is SIT UPS!

Answer 8

crunchies.