Starting my "better abs exercise" tonight

[SampaGuy]

yall might disagree but ive been working out a lot in the last few months and reading books and what not. doing the 100 or even 50 crunches is definitely not the way to go.

lets say that when u first started working out, u benched 50lbs (3 sets of 10 reps). as u gain muscle, do u keep benching 50lbs until ur doing 300 reps of that same 50lbs? hell no, thats dumb as fuck! anyone that knows anything about working out will tell u to keep doing the 3 sets of 10, but progressively increase the weight (that is if ur goal is to have big muscles).

the exact same thing applies to abs. right now i do 3 sets of 10-15 inclined sit ups while "hugging" a 35lbs barbell plate thingy, and by the time im done my abs are like bulging out! i use to do 50 regular crunches per workout, then i started doing the 3 sets of 10-15 with 15lbs and been adding weight every 3 workout sessions. trust me ur abs will grow a hell lot faster!

and like everybody else said, u cant have any fat on ur stomach or the 6 pack wont show.

[Z32redondo]

yall might disagree but ive been working out a lot in the last few months and reading books and what not. doing the 100 or even 50 crunches is definitely not the way to go.

lets say that when u first started working out, u benched 50lbs (3 sets of 10 reps). as u gain muscle, do u keep benching 50lbs until ur doing 300 reps of that same 50lbs? hell no, thats dumb as fuck! anyone that knows anything about working out will tell u to keep doing the 3 sets of 10, but progressively increase the weight (that is if ur goal is to have big muscles).

the exact same thing applies to abs. right now i do 3 sets of 10-15 inclined sit ups while "hugging" a 35lbs barbell plate thingy, and by the time im done my abs are like bulging out! i use to do 50 regular crunches per workout, then i started doing the 3 sets of 10-15 with 15lbs and been adding weight every 3 workout sessions. trust me ur abs will grow a hell lot faster!

and like everybody else said, u cant have any fat on ur stomach or the 6 pack wont show.

You sir are correct. But in fact you do have to have some sort of endurance to do that though. Kind of like running would you start running maybe a few miles then maybe add some weight while you run gradually or start straight off with a nice hefty amount of weight and run maybe 1 mile? I feel that you must first have some endurance before you add some weight. So a mass number of situps would help gain some endurance while adding weight gains more muscle/definition. I would rather start doing a large mass of situps to help gain a bit of endurance than maybe say 30 reps with 20 pounds 2 weeks or so later in the work out. Than start straight out with weight period and do like 15 reps with 15 pounds the first few days. But I do see where you are coming from. Also doing more situps tones it out.