<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS">My brother has them, but I've never actually seen him lie down and do crunches or sit-ups. All he really does for exercise is play basketball...I want to know:What can I do to get six-pack abs, other than crunches/sit-ups?I have a very flat tummy.. In fact, it's so flat that a super model would kill to have my stomach. I eat a lot, but don't gain weight...I've been doing a lot of crunches/sit-ups since this past summer, but haven't gotten a six-pack. What else can I add to my exercise routine to get a six-pack?My exercise routine:After school, play basketball for several hours.Before sleeping, do 100 crunches and then lift a 20 lb dumbell (weight, etc. Whatever you'd prefer to call it) for a couple of minutes with both hands.That's pretty much it.</span>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Illosophee @ Feb 7 2007, 09:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS">My brother has them, but I've never actually seen him lie down and do crunches or sit-ups. All he really does for exercise is play basketball...I want to know:What can I do to get six-pack abs, other than crunches/sit-ups?I have a very flat tummy.. In fact, it's so flat that a super model would kill to have my stomach. I eat a lot, but don't gain weight...I've been doing a lot of crunches/sit-ups since this past summer, but haven't gotten a six-pack. What else can I add to my exercise routine to get a six-pack?My exercise routine:After school, play basketball for several hours.Before sleeping, do 100 crunches and then lift a 20 lb dumbell (weight, etc. Whatever you'd prefer to call it) for a couple of minutes with both hands.That's pretty much it.</span></div>Well, I'm not going to give you a whole lifting routine since that is now what you seem to want. For abs, you have to build msucle in the area so it isn't straight flat like a model. To do this, do weighted planks (search bodybuilding.com for exercise description) and weighted crunches. Hold the planks for 30 seconds each, and do a few sets of 15 crunches with as much weight as you can use. Attempt to increase weight every week.But 80% of getting a 6 pack is low body fat. You can be the most muscular person ever, but if you have more than 10% body fat you won't show more than a 4 pack or so. Do cardio or lots of sprints to bring down body fat.
Well, I'd just lift more weights. I heard if you lift weights and work on your whole body a 6 pack will come so that's what I'd try if just sit-ups isn't enough.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nitro1118 @ Feb 7 2007, 08:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Well, I'm not going to give you a whole lifting routine since that is now what you seem to want. For abs, you have to build msucle in the area so it isn't straight flat like a model. To do this, do weighted planks (search bodybuilding.com for exercise description) and weighted crunches. Hold the planks for 30 seconds each, and do a few sets of 15 crunches with as much weight as you can use. Attempt to increase weight every week.But 80% of getting a 6 pack is low body fat. You can be the most muscular person ever, but if you have more than 10% body fat you won't show more than a 4 pack or so. Do cardio or lots of sprints to bring down body fat.</div>That's really good advice, it's true in my case. I've been very inactive lately but I have pretty muscular abs and they don't show.This other guy who I know works out less than me has a crazy six pack, and he's a really good endurance runner and all that stuff.So I'm just posting to back this up.
leg liftsdo 100 a daylay down, put your legs and arms up, and lift your legs up into your abs, then put your legs back down without them touching the ground and lift them up again and do this 50 times straight, then do it again later.It's really hard, I usually take a break or 2 during it, but it works trust me
That will do nothing for you, and only works one area of the abs. That is good for endurance, but will make a flat stomach not any more noticable and buff. He needs to build muscle in that area, and only way to do that is some form of weight training (planks, weighted crunches, etc..).But yeah, 100 leg lifts are pretty tough.
Everyone got 6 packs, its just coverd in fat. usually, all skinny people have em. im pretty skinny, but I do a bit of working out too, so I have em
do regular sit ups, sit ups to each side, sit ups with your feet up at a 90 degree angle, then that same thing but 'riding on a bicycle'. Works your abs a lot. Russian twists too, work the core. And yeah, trim whatever fat might be there. Eat healthy and work your core.
Roadwork. Go outside and run about 45 minutes a day, usually when you wake up is the best time. Don't go at one pace the whole time though, jog then sprint, jog then sprint and so on.Keep doing your situps and crunches.What no one has mentioned, watch what you eat.
You sound alot like I used to be (and still kinda am). Eat quite a bit, but very thin and kinda flat. I did situps daily and did different things to work my abs, and I play basketball 3 times a week (at least, and more if its spring/summer). I'm still a distance away from a 6 pack, but I have a 4 pack right now and it's a lot better than it was before, I still have a skinny look to myself though, and you wouldn't think I ate as much as I did.
<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS">Thanks for the advice fellas. I'll add the 100 leg lifts and sprint/jogging to my daily exercise routines. Last night, I held a weight against my stomach and did crunches.. That was insanely hard work! I still managed to do 100, but it took longer than usual, especially since I stopped after every 20 or so crunches.</span>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Ginger Jesus @ Feb 7 2007, 10:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Eat healthy</div><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Lefty @ Feb 8 2007, 01:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>What no one has mentioned, watch what you eat.</div> :cry2:
