Fast 6 Abs Blog

Most people when they look at you, forms their impression of your character or personality in the first few seconds. A fit physical appearance is admirable and makes people remember you better. This is not always true in all cases but in most cases, that will certainly be the case.

While the biceps and other muscles stands out more for a person because they are generally exposed body parts, the abdominals don’t get the same exposure. However, when it comes to walking around with your bare midsection, people will not help but admire your well defined sculpted abs.

Some will take your training of this body part as an obsession or an expression of your vanity. What they say wouldn’t matter but, there is a lot more, well formed abs should tell other people about you. So what if you are vain, that’s not the worst thing that can happen besides no one in this world, I am sure, is not vain about one thing or another.

I hope you are training your abdominals for sports fitness or health rather than just to show them off, but that’s entirely up to you. The benefits of having a well toned body and abs are immense. Regardless of your primary reason for doing it, the benefits to your posture, general well being, health, self confidence and self esteem should never be under-estimated.

It is generally accepted, and there are researches which supports this viewpoint, that people with well formed abdominals are considered to be fitter than an average bloke. Whether they are really fit, and we wouldn’t know just by looking at a person’s abs is another story altogether.

People need to be accept the fact that being fat don’t look cool, period. Beer belly and love handles don’t look cool regardless of which angle the camera is pointing from. The only way of looking cool is to burn off the fat layers surrounding your mid section and developing the abdominal muscles that are hiding behind this fat layer.

The next time your so called well intentioned friends take the piss out of you for being obsessed with your abs training, tell them to go get a life. If anything, they should be supporting yuo and/or following you to do something about their pathetic looking abdominals.

GayPharmacist in their comments left on this website, said that you only need to do 30minutes workout every day for one month coupled with some cardio exercises to build your 6 packs. I would like to put that to the test but with several conditions, (1) train every other day and rest in between (2) sleep well and eat well (3) utilise the train-to-failure principle.

The only other changes I will make is that I will be doing back lifts to strengthen my back because you don’t want to get injured. Very important. The other change is that I will be training every other day, but train to failure.

It doesn’t matter how many repetitions you do as long a you don’t get to failure in the first 2 sets. We want those sets to work at warming up your abdominals. The other thing I would like to introduce is to do the exercises slowly. If you can do a full repetition from start to finish within 2 seconds and maintaining tension around the abodominals area in that time, that’s the best way. The last set of course where you train to failure, you just go until you cannot do another repetition. Remember to keep a record of your workouts.

Also, for the whole set, your abdominals should not relax until the end of that set. See my workout below for more details.

This is the 4th of June and my six packs have gone backwards for several months so it’s a good idea to test out their theory and see where I will get to. Anyone else wants to have a go, please feel free and report back your results.

My new workout will look like this :-

3 exercises :-
(1) Crunches (3 sets – with last set to failure)
(2) Reverse Crunches (3 sets with last set to failure)
(3) Back extensions (3 sets)

What I am trying to prove is that you can have only a few exercises lasting about 30mins but if done correctly, can still reap rewards.

Here’s a typical ab workout from a friend of mine.  I can understand why he has opted for this kind of workout since he’s probably one of those people who we refer to as hard gainers.

His ab workout is similar to this routine. Trains 3 alternate days of the week. Every exercise is done to its maximum intensity to failure.  He did 5 exercises, doing one set each until he reached failure.

The exercises he performed are Ball Crunches, Side Bends, Leg Raises (Single & Double), Reverse Crunches and Waist Twists.  He choose to train every other day for 3 days because he probably needed to recover his heavy intense ab workout.

After 2 or 3 weeks, he then switched to low intensity for one whole week before he goes back to his normal intense routine. Because of the intensity he always make sure that he sleeps and eats well.

He trains every other day for example – Mon, Wed and Fridays.  He does light aerobics work on his rest days except Sunday when he performs no working out. 

Since his workouts are very intense he only does them for a few weeks of the year. For the rest of the year he will do the same routine but at medium intensity. Sometimes when he’s busy with work, he finds that he maintains his abs sufficiently with only 2 maximum intensity workouts a week.

What is your ab workout like.  Is it anything close to what he has above?