The big abs debate...

[Ben_London]

Sometimes you hear someone like Roach say "Manny does 5000 sit ups a day" or something like that. That goes against everything I've read about doing that many reps won't do much, but will it work if you do that many and simply vary the particular ab excerise?
How do you guys go about it?

[SplitSecond]

all i know is, if i do 100 one arm pushups(100 each arm) , for the whole week my triceps will look ****in huge, and i mean abnormal, as in some steroids abusin lookin ****

[Boxer1590]

My trainer always tells us to do 200 abs every night before we leave. We do whatever we want, situps, crunches, on an incline, not on one, with weights, anything we want just do 200.

Then every other day we do a medicine ball drill where my trainer stands on top a bunch while we lay on our backs and he drops the medicin ball on out stomachs. We do 5 sets of 20 with that, and then he gets a heavier ball and we do 5 sets of 10.

All I know, is what we are doing works lol. I feel I have a nice six pack and body shots usually don't faze me none.

[fraidycat]

all i know is, if i do 100 one arm pushups(100 each arm) , for the whole week my triceps will look ****in huge, and i mean abnormal, as in some steroids abusin lookin ****

Video or it didn't happen. I'll give you 100,000 points if you shoot a video of you doing 100 1-armed pushups with each arm.

I can do 5 with my right and 4 with my left. And I'm ****ing strong.

[Sugarj]

Higher reps for muscle density. In layman's terms how hard the muscle feels.

Lower reps plus increased resistance for increased muscle size.

Boxers tend to do higher reps for abdominal exercises as it will more than likely harden the stomache muscles and help them absorb body blows later into a fight.

Remember Manny wont do 5000 situps straight, he will do a variation of upper abdominal crunches, leg raises and oblique training so as to exercise all areas of the abdomen.

[them_apples]

Sometimes you hear someone like Roach say "Manny does 5000 sit ups a day" or something like that. That goes against everything I've read about doing that many reps won't do much, but will it work if you do that many and simply vary the particular ab excerise?
How do you guys go about it?

doing less is just what lazy people say, or MMA fans since they think they have the science down.

In reality, hard work produces results.

Why do you think tradespeople have powerful forearms? they use there forearms every day for hours.

Hard work produces results.

[them_apples]

Video or it didn't happen. I'll give you 100,000 points if you shoot a video of you doing 100 1-armed pushups with each arm.

I can do 5 with my right and 4 with my left. And I'm ****ing strong.

I can do 25 with my left, about 20 with my right..i will make a video if need be. not soft ones either, legitimate ones nearly touching the ground.

[Ben_London]

Thanks for the replies guys. I hate being told after I've done 300 crunches (varied excercises) that it's a waste of time to do so many.

[RayDiggle]

Yeah I do 200 daily (varied exercises) and am seeing good results. Got a good 4 pack coming in. I personally think it has a lot to do with what works for you. I personally think that for me, 300 a day would be ideal. Others, maybe 5000 a day. Some people, 500 every other day. Do what works for you.

I do think doing 5000 of the same thing in a row or all at once would be totally useless though. That would just break down your muscle, nothing else.

[TheNegation]

doing less is just what lazy people say, or MMA fans since they think they have the science down.

And I suppose you have the science down?

You're very misinformed. Doing too much leads to over training and thus a lack of progression and even regression. It's common knowledge that doing more doesn't mean more benefit or results.

Like people doing hundreds of push-ups, pull ups and sit-ups every day with no resting days to give your body to recover?

When you train or workout you aren't getting stronger or bigger, you're breaking your body down.

This has nothing to do with MMA, so stop discreetly trying to take **** on something that has nothing to do with the discussion.

Also Rep ranges are overrated.