How many crunches a day should I do to get a 6 pack.?

Question

When I flex, you can see my abs, but I want my abs to show without having to flex. I can do a set of 100, maybe 150. How many sets a day should I do? If not crunches is there a better ab exercise requiring no equipment like the air bicycle? I know I have to have little body fat. I'm skinny, 5'10", 120 pounds, and I run 2-3 miles every other day.

Answer 1

The one thing you left out is your diet. Without a low fat diet you can do a thousand crunches and you abs won't show. Add reverse crunches and the air bicycle is a goo exercise also.

Answer 2

damn man, i'm 130 and 5'3, and i have an athletic build. Don't be afraid to eat, you're going to end up being anorexic to achieve your goal. What you need to do is gain some muscle under your abs, and continue to eat clean, but eat more. 8 small meals a day, or once every 2 hours.
Start doing crunches with resistance, who knows, maybe do something other than crunches? Crunches are just cliche, there are other ab routines. But, start doing crunches with a weight held in the air, and don't manipulate it to help sit up.
Just do some searchin on the web for more exercises.
I have yet to obtain defined abs, and i'm very low BF myself, so don't kill yourself over it.

Answer 3

Yeah like other people have said, you need to get a proper diet, you don't need to do more than a couple sets a day to get a six pack. Also if you are doing weighted crunches or crunches with resistance, you are going to need to do stomach vacuums to not get a poofy gut.

Answer 4

from what i know, you can do 1000 crunches a day, but f your not eating well, a good diet, without junk food and fats, you wont get the six pack, make sure you eat well

Answer 5

1000