Fast 6 Abs Blog

Every day I often come across people who complained that no matter what they do, their abs are the hardest to grow. They don’t seem to get the results they are after eventhough they trained very very hard. Other muscles seems to be growing bigger and stronger but not their abdominals.

One look at their abs told me all I needed to know. How can you show your abs if they are covered by layers of fat?

I bet they haven’t heard about the slogan – “abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym”.

Someone was asking me the other day – “how can I grow my abdominal muscles the same way that I am growing my other muscles, and what exercises for abs should I do?”

Pondering on this question for a while, my brief answer to him is – you need to do everything that is required and not just do one thing. Training is one part of the equation but the other parts, and let’s face it – they are all equally important if not critical to your development, is (1) recovery through rest and sleeping and (2) your nutrition program.

Failure to do ALL of those things will make your exercises for abs routine, ineffective.

To which he replied – “but one person in my local gym eats everything he likes to eat and he trains just as hard as me but, he got the results and I don’t”.

To cut the story short – I nearly gave him a cuff around the ears. But, it is still a valid question which we will explore further, in another post. The bottom line of it is, you should never compare yourself and your training to someone else. You are build totally different in your physiology and behaviour. He may well be blessed with good genes but not you.

Copying someone’s training methods is only okay when you are starting out but the level you must always strive for, is to find out what works for you.

So what does your typical abs workout looks like? What kind of routines do you us and what kind of exercises are included? Do you design your workout based on the areas you are weak in or do you based it instead on exercises that are your favourite and which you like to perform?

My abs workout keeps changing all the time, like say every 2 or 3 months.  It is a fact that after a few weeks, your body will have become adjusted to the intensity, causing your muscle growth to slow down or become stagnant.

This is also the main reason why body builders cycle their routines. The exercises I tend to use vary but some of them stays the same throughout the year.

For example, I am a huge fan of crunches because of the complete workout your abs will get from them. So while I don’t stop doing crunches, I often vary the way they are performed.  In my abs workout I sometimes I do floor crunches straight, sometimes with twists, and sometimes I do them on the ball.

My abs workout also don’t include a lot of exercises.  At the most I would only be dong about 4 or 5 exercises but I change them around regularly.