CONSISTENCY OF AB TRAINING

Hey fellas,
Abdominal development seems to be a topic with a wide array of opinions. Ive been told I can work my abs everyday, others have told me only once a week is necessary. Aside from cardio to keep the body fat down, any suggestions to how often and how hard I should work this muscle group. Thanks.

Get ready for about a million different answers to this one. All I can tell you is what I do. I do abs twice a week, but most of my core strength and development comes from not using a belt for any exercises. When I ditched the belt, it took me a while to get my squats back up to where they were, but the pros far outweighed than one con.

Pm, few people have that eight pack.lol If you really want to see anything more than a two pack, you might want your bodyfat to be under 9 %. I'm at like 9% and I see my four pack coming, but I need to eat a little healthier.

In my opinion, the ab muscles are like any other muscle group...muscle tissue is muscle tissue and the same rules apply no matter where that muscle tissue is located. No one disputes that training chest, arms, quads, etc four or five times a week is a bad idea, yet we have heated debates over treating the ab muscles the same way. To me, you should train abs no more than twice a week with a minimum of three days between sessions. Otherwise, just like any other muscle group, you will be overtraining and not allowing for recovery and subsequent growth of the muscle.

I train abs every other day when possible. Your core area which includes your abs gets a lot of work on other days, but I use my abs days to get shredded. I love doing planks in stabilizing my core muscles.

Well I do abs everyday but rotate from upper to lower to upper etc. Two exercises per day 4 sets to failure. This and cardio which I believe is number one in getting abs definition

I do abs 3-4 times a week. I want to keep my core strong.

I do abs 2-3 times a week, we need to give them recovery time just as any other muscle in our bodies of course the most important muscle for ab development is our mouthes so i believe its really not how often we work them out but how we eat and what we eat. :) we all have abs they just need to be uncovered.

I believe most exercises do work our core in some shape, way or form.

Abs? What are abs? Are there actually exercises for them?

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abs are... anti-lock break system coach, should have them on ur car.

Whew! Thanks for the clarification J - I was concerned because for a minute there I thought it was a muscle group I should be training...