Fast 6 Abs Blog

A few months ago, I came up with a simple plan to see how much development my abs would get if I do this simple program for 1 month. If you haven’t read my post yet, you can check it out here One Month Abdominals Trial.

After one month, I noticed that while my strength around my midsection has increased by at least 10 times, my abs are still not showing up because of the layer of fat around them. However, the strength and flexibility gained were probably as good as any other times when my abdominals were well developed.

In terms of toning, I give it ten out of ten. My flabs and loose muscles are no longer there but are now replaced by well toned abs.

In evaluating my new abs strength, I got my 14 year old girl to punch my stomach as hard as she could. Before we started this program, she has managed to hurt the hell out of abs every time we do boxing practice at home. This time though, I could barely feel the power of her punches. While she’s only 14 years old, she’s no sloppy or weak puncher after all the boxing training she’s been doing all this time.

To give you an example of the strength I have gained, I never used to do more than 10 reverse curls because of my weak abdominals and hip flexor muscles. This time around, I can easily do 30 to 40 reverse crunches and in good form. Another example is the number of V-sits I have been able to do now.

While I am very disappointed about the surrounding layer of fat hiding my new developed abdominals, I am not discouraged. The next part of the exercise is of course to incorporate some more aerobics type of training to trim down the fat layers even more. For that, I will probably be doing skipping and jogging in between my abdominals training days.

So what does this exercise program tells me? Many things, one of which is that, you can easily build your abs in one month or less depending on your availability. My abs workout takes only 30mins each training session and anyone can find 30mins out of their day to put into abs training.

No amount of day dreaming will ever help you with your abs training goals, if you don’t know what kind of exercises will work which particular muscles of the abs. I cannot cover all the abs exercises in one post but maybe we can do it over several posts in the next few days.

To start with, the best exercises for abs to me will have to be crunches, reverse crunches, v-sits, leg raises, side bends and twists using a stick.

They are also easy to do and they can all give you better results if you do them using the ball, or an inclined bench, and this is true especially with the crunches.

Crunches on the ball stresses all your abs muscles but especially the upper abs. Crunches on the ball will exercise all your frontal areas including the deeper muscles. They can also affect your intercostals to an extent. Those are the muscles around the sides going up to your back and rib cage.

Reverse crunches train mainly the lower abs and so as leg raises. These are two of the best exercises for abs if done correctly. If you don’t do them right or tend to overextend your movements, then there is a chance the hip flexors and muscles of the hips will be worked, lessening the impact on the lower abs. Reverse crunches is not easy to do but if you master it, it will pay you dividends.

V-sits is best for all around complete abs workout. This is definitely one of the best exercises for abs and it is just a graceful and nice, natural movement to execute. Some people finds the v-sits difficult but that’s okay you don’t have to do 100 reps per set. If you can manage 20 or even 10 per set then that’s also okay. Keep at it and you will be hitting 30, 40 or more in no time.

The last 2 good exercises for abs I want to discuss is the twists and side bends. Side bends according to some people may tend to build too much of your intercostals hence making your waist wider but that’s probably a load of crap. Do more than a few hundreds per set to give your ab muscles a good workout.

There are other good abs exercises which I haven’t covered here so we’ll leave them for next time.