March 23, 2010
Getting Fast Abs Using Only Crunches – Surprised?
Firstly let me make it clear that you should not read nor believe everything anyone has ever written about getting your 6 pack abs fast. Always check the information using many good sources.
Be careful about people talking about situps as the best abs exercise to get fast abs. Rubbish. There are other good abs exercises that can take the title of best abs exercise. The situps can be a good abs exercise but it's not the only way to get abs fast.
WARNING: Do not do crunches (another name for situps) with straight legs. Very dangerous for your back.
Here is an easy way to get fast abs using crunches:-
TRAINING AREA
Find a large area with a soft surface that is neither too soft nor too hard on your back. I normally use a large towel folded several times to prevent my back from hitting the hard gym floor.
POSITIONING - LEGS
Bend your knees keeping both feet on the floor about shoulder width apart. You can also put your legs on a stool to raise your legs a couple of centimeters off the floor. How far off the floor? Make it high enough such that your lower legs are parallel to the floor or close to being parallel.
POSITIONING - HANDS
One good position is to fold your hands in front like a cross with the fingers of one hand touching the opposite shoulder. Other good ways of positioning your hands is covered in the main article on my website. Use the link at end of this article to go there for your fast abs.
STARTING POSITION
Lying on back, curl your body forward from the waist raising your upper body off the ground, just by a couple of centimeters. Do not allow your upper body to touch the floor. You should feel some tension around your abdominals but not too much.
MOVEMENT TO HALF-WAY POINT
To perform one repetition, continue to curl up your stomach as if you are curling into a ball but only until your upper body is about 40 to 50 degress angle with the floor. You should feel a lot of tension around the whole frontal muscles including the deeper ab muscles as you curl up to this halfway point. When reaching the top of the movement, contract your abs as hard as possible, hold for around 2 - 5 seconds.
After holding, go back down slowly to the starting position to complete one repetition. Continue doing the movement until you cannot do another rep or until the pain is too uncomfortable. Keep track of the number of reps you have performed in one set. Do about 3 or 4 sets to get a good workout for fast abs.
VARIATIONS
If any of the positions described above are difficult to perform then do the following. Stretch out your hands in front of you so it's about 90 degrees to the floor. Raise your upper body slowly while curling your abs, keeping the tension around your abdominals high. As soon as your wrists are directly on top of the knees or lightly touching them, tense your ab muscles, hold 2 - 5 seconds and go back down to the starting position.
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