is there a diffference between doing 200 crunches in a row and doing 50 crunches every hour for 4 hours?
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you should space your crunches out to 50 every four hours that way you are constantly working them to tone them just doing 200 once will get results but by te time you do more the effects of the first set will have worn off start with 50 every 4 hours then go to 100 every 6 hours and move up until your doing about 100 a day i got great results
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Hey, I would strongly recommend you to save your money and invest it in a abs book at barnes and noble or visit a public library.  The ab lounge is a waste of money because you can get same results by doing different abs workout such as regular crunches. By the way, there are many books out that will give you examples of working your abs.  I have been using men's health best abs book.
935330
i am like you, tall with a pretty thin body type, but i also want to be a little more tone, so i do crunches, like 50 a night, and lift like 8 lbs weights about 30 times a nite, works for me hope it does for u too =)
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Your ab muscles are no different than the other muscles in your body. They need time to recover from exercise. For maximum results, don't work them everyday. Every other day is best.\n\nIf you are trying to get your "six-pack", crunches are not the way to go. Everyone has a six-pack, but for most people, a layer of fat covers it. Even though you have a flat stomach, you probably still have just enough body fat to cover them up. It is important to eat properly and exercise to burn this fat.
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when you do sit ups or crunches, you tend to twist your body. Try to use a machine to keep you steady. and try side crunches, just sit in a chair and instead of going forward, bend sideways, as many times as you can to the right, then to the left....keep them even. if you can only do 40 to the right, but only 30 left, then take the right down to 30 until you can up the left to 40. eventually it will make a difference. you have to keep your body from twisting or bending in the wrong places.
634716
Listen up, do 300 crunches 5 days per week for the next 4-6 weeks. I do this to my clients and it works.
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That entirely depends on your weight and the amount of time you spend doing crunches.\n\nSelect Calisthenics in this calculator for a rough estimate:\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/at_the_gym.html
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first you need to find out if you are performing these exercises properly.  if you are, then maybe it takes longer for you to feel the burning sensation.  when i do crunches i don't start to feel anything until i'm around number 30.  that's because my body is getting used to this exercise so i must increase the reps.
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You'll get greater benefit by giving every muscle a 48 hour rest.\n\nMy routine is Backs and Bi's, then next day, Chest & Tri's, then Legs.\n\nSo each group gets 72 hours between workouts.
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What makes you think you need to do crunches on an empty stomach?  As long as you don't eat for an hour before or if its a heavy meal wait 2-3 hours.  \n\nYour abs are a muscle, just like your quads or biceps, what is happening a few inches from them at the time you're working them out, wont really affect them any differently unless you are so uncomfortable you cant perform well.  \n\nThis is assuming a healthy diet of course.
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Do not listen to the people that tell you to do crunches. Crunches only DEFINE muscle. They do not burn fat. To burn fat, you need to do atleast 30 minutes of cardio (your heart gets to pump) and every other day you need to do some kind of resistance training (either weight lifting or resistance bands). Crunches and other moves like that will only show their worth when you burn the fat around them!\nHope this helps!
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Crunches. Do 3x 15 crunches everyday 3 times. 3*3*15=135 crunches a day. It may sound like alot, but once you divide into your day its not so bad. Especially considering what you get in return. NICE ABS!
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30 minutes is the recommended time. Longer is good. It is for fitness and improves health. It also is good in a lot of other ways. Read the links.
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This is 2 I'm sorry. For your upper abs real slow crunches and for your lower abs real slow leg lifts . Don't do regular sit ups as they pull to many other muscles and ligements into the equation
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its not how many you do but which excercise you do.  You can do one or two ofthese that I teach you and you might even be better off. once you work out of it, whats the point of doing 20-50 reps a day?  you will never get a 6 pack off of them if you beeen doing them for a while and dont see anything.  nearly everybody in the karate class i was in had a 6 pack and there was good reason why.  alot of those body builders who train on their own never get a 6 pack.  nor the people who hire personal trainers.  The idea is doing what works.  this is not in any books so you dont have to waste your time.  This is what I did for my 8 pack.  You lay flat on the floor on your stomach.  prop your feet up in push up position.  Then you put your hands way out.  Put them together so that they are touching.  Now, try to do a push up.  Some people couldnt even do one, but the next day they couldnt wake up.  Imagine doing about 40 or 50 of these.  To be honest, you dont need to do 40 or 50.  You can do about 15 to 25 and get a 6 pack.  If you get used to it, it takes like 2 minutes to do about 15 to 25 of these pushups.  You will be headed on your way to a 6 pack if you are still lean.  This is kung fu excercise and karate excersize.  so, take your time to do them right if you have to.  remember to keep your back straight.
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Exercise is meant to improve your physical abilities, not hinder them.  Stick to going maybe 3 or 4 minutes beyond when your abs are noticably sore when crunching... Then STOP!!!  Be sure to stretch your stomach when you are done..this well help keep you limber. Also, Crunches don't need to be done every day. The muscles are being torn in exercise and they need time to repeair (The repair is what makes them get tigheter). In addition... varry your workout- Do 300 crunches one morniing, skip a day and then do only 150 the next... do oblique crunches, reverse crunches, and regular crunches, make it fun, learn new exercises, Magazines like Health are great for switching up your home fitness routine.  Remember though, no matter how many crunches you do, crunches only treat the muscles. You must do cardio to get rid of flab!  You could have solid ab muscles underneath inches of fat if you dont do cardio as well!!
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If you plan on doing 100 sit ups or crunches after a while it won't help.  100 will be good enough until your abs grow in strength to handle that.  Muhammad Ali said he would do sit ups until it started to burn then he would count out a hundred.  Also variations will help out as well like reverse crunch, decline crunches and any other variations.  For your abs to show definition all depends on your diet.  You can't just eat anything and work out abs and hope for definition you have to eat right to get that six pack.  If you don't eat right you will have some definition.