Push ups & abs

[ShoulderRoll]

I figured out one thing that if anyone is looking for burning fat and building abs than Mountain Climber is the best option, do it for 20 minutes and you will feel the burn and if you want to make them solid rock than Hanging Leg raise and Knee raise is the best option.

Are you saying to do Mountain Climbers for 20 minutes straight?

[Taha93]

4 Minutes straight than rest for 1 minute

[snoopy360]

Slightly sore go ahead and take a day off. After a few weeks perhaps 30 days depending on how bad of shape you are in you should be good to go everyday. Abs after the sore stage you can rip those up everyday.

[OctoberRed]

Slightly sore go ahead and take a day off. After a few weeks perhaps 30 days depending on how bad of shape you are in you should be good to go everyday. Abs after the sore stage you can rip those up everyday.

I remember reading somewhere that R&B guy Usher used to do 1000 situps a day.

[WarVeteranO01]

Theres no such thing as over training. Your muscles should feel depleted after every workout.

[GelfSara]

I wonder if Mia St. John will out him next.

She strikes me as crazier than a loon; apparently she blames steroids for needing to get her hips replaced; there is no plausible cause-and-effect connection I'm aware of.

It is true, though, that there was about a 20-year-period in boxing--from 1990-2010, very roughly--where it was the "Wild, Wild West" in boxing WRT PED usage; drug tests were only administered on fight night and were more primitive (detected substances less far back in time) and therefore extremely easy to beat.

[GelfSara]

Theres no such thing as over training.

Of course there is such a thing as "overtraining".

To give an example, top marathon runners typically run 100-160 miles per week.

Why do no top marathon runners consistently run 200+ miles per week? The time certainly isn't prohibitive; if the average pace is 9 miles per hour (6:40 per mile pace, hardly fast for a 2:06 marathon runner), 200 miles per week would only be 22.22 hours per week of running; less time than many top cyclists or swimmers spend training.

The answer is very simple, and is explained by the below, from http://baye.com/results-versus-time



The Sun Tan Analogy

Exercise is a type of stress we apply to the body to stimulate an adaptive response. The key word being “stimulate”. Exercise does not directly produce any improvements in the body, it stimulates the body to produce those improvements as an adaptive response to enable it to better handle the same stress in the future. In many ways, it is like getting a sun tan.

Exposure to sunlight does not directly produce a tan. The ultraviolet radiation in sunlight stimulates melanocytes in the skin to produce more melanin as a protective mechanism, darkening the skin. The brighter the sun, the more intense the radiation, the stronger the stimulus. The same situation occurs with exercise or any other stress – the more intense the stress the greater the stimulus for adaptation. If the sky is cloudy you can lay out all day and not stimulate any noticeable tanning because the intensity of ultraviolet radiation would be too low, but if the sun is high and the sky is clear you only have to lay out a little while to stimulate a tan. The same thing happens with exercise. If the level of effort is low you can do a large amount of exercise but not stimulate much in the way of improvements, but if the level of effort is very high very little is required for good results.

If a stress is intense enough to stimulate a significant adaptive response though, there will be a limit to how much the body can handle within some period of time. Up to a point, intense sun exposure will stimulate a tan, beyond that it starts to damage the skin, causing a burn. Up to a point intense exercise will stimulate improvements in strength, metabolic and cardiovascular conditioning and other aspects of fitness, but beyond some point the demands of the workout exceed what the body is able to recover from and adapt to and eventually can cause a loss of strength and conditioning, a situation called “overtraining”.

If you lay out to tan or use a tanning bed, when you’ve finished you don’t go back out or back to the bed and do it again five minutes later. The body needs time to recover before being exposed to the same stress again or the process of recovery and adaptation is interrupted and you risk damage. The same is true of exercise. After a workout your body requires time to recover from the effects of the workout and produce the improvements the workout stimulated. Although the amount varies between individuals, most people underestimate how much time they need for recovery between workouts.