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- holyskeleton, on 06/05/2009, -28/+533summary: do push ups instead of crunches
- jmpeagle, on 06/05/2009, -0/+215planks and leg drops specifically work your abs
FTA
"Like the pushup, the best exercises for back health and a firmer stomach are ones that work your abs while holding your spine straight, like planks or leg drops (done when you lie flat on your back, with your hands at the base of your spine for added support. Raise your legs up at a 90 degree angle, then slowly lower until they’re only inches from the ground." - rx8geek, on 06/05/2009, -1/+165I wake up in the morning... that's half
Go to bed at night... there's the other half - ray4389, on 06/05/2009, -4/+146Damnit. I thought for a moment that I didn't need to work out anymore.... :(
- foucaultsvac, on 06/05/2009, -5/+143FTA:
“If you want to burn your fat mass, make sure you have a combination of weight training and cardiovascular, but 90 percent of good abs is your nutrition,” says Maresca.
Pretty much. Work EVERYTHING, not just your stomach. If you want to decrease belly fat you have to work your whole body, via both resistance and cardio. Focusing on one muscle group is useless.
Stop eating well before bed, and try to get 8 hours of sleep. From your last meal to breakfast should be 12 hours, ideally.
Start eating a larger breakfast and decrease the amount of food as the day goes on.
Eat vegetables with EVERY meal. Focus on lean meats and some fruits/nuts. Earn your carbs. No white flour, soda (not even diet), candy.
And stop eating garbage...you know what that is.
Those are the basics. - MrSkills, on 06/05/2009, -3/+115No, Digg users have strong wrists. Well, a strong wrist.
- Amadeus2490, on 06/05/2009, -8/+103Pushups stress your wrists.
WHAT WILL WE DO NOW?! - Jaydo, on 06/05/2009, -14/+98ab workouts =/= six packs. yeah, old news.
If you want your muscles to show through your skin without steroids or anything short of a job's worth of dedication, you've gotta run your ass off and watch what you eat.
Personally, I've always valued ab workouts for ab strength more than any though of toning or a six pack. - sildude, on 06/05/2009, -9/+75The point is that they aren't in fact healthy for your body. And whats more the author suggest alternatives to get even greater results.
- drmangrum, on 06/05/2009, -0/+52I have great abs...they're just well insulated...and in the witness protection program. You'll never find them!
- Zaggynl, on 06/05/2009, -1/+48descriptive summary:
push ups > crunches
Because push ups are about stressing your whole upper body instead of your back (in a bad way) with crunches. - ghatid, on 06/05/2009, -1/+44But those are really...really hard....
- raynar, on 06/05/2009, -2/+43Well also, if you're just fat, crunches wont make you look better. You have to lose the weight for any weight training to be effective.
- splinter09, on 06/05/2009, -0/+41Very interesting read, I'm sit up maniac, but I have always been aware that to develop a nice six pack I need a combination of other exercises and a balanced diet.
- jwolcott, on 06/05/2009, -4/+45"Repeat until your stomach burns and you want to throw up"
Uhm, great advice there, Bob. - GrimReeper, on 06/05/2009, -0/+37Do pushups with a clenched fist on your knuckles, because you don't bend your wrist when you do this less stress is placed on the wrist and actually increases it's strength.
- inactive, on 06/05/2009, -6/+42WHAT? Crunch = lower back put still on surface; Sit-Up = all the way up. Title is wrong, article is wrong. It's the other way around. Buried for innaccuracy
- Tokenmac, on 06/05/2009, -1/+33Oh yeah now I see this after I just did 100 sit ups, and I felt so proud too.
Oh well geuss it is going to be planks for me (at least after I do some more reach on this claim) next work out. - apetrie, on 06/05/2009, -1/+31You mean as a society we learn over time, and refine our knowledge of our bodies? GTFO! Thats crazy.
- inactive, on 06/05/2009, -5/+35(1) 'Experts' say use vibrating belt machines to lose belly fat. http://tinyurl.com/ll22xe
(2) Then 'Experts' say "Don't use vibrating belt machines, sit-ups are better."
(3) Then 'Experts' say "Don't do sit-ups, crunches are better."
(4) Then 'Experts' say "Don't do crunches, [insert latest guess here] are better."
I detect a pattern. - ukshortbreaks, on 06/05/2009, -2/+31If anyone does or is considering crunches, use a proper technique! My lower back was ruined when at 10 during football training, for years we would do stomach crunches with a friend holding our legs down, flat. NEVER leave your legs flat as it will tear your lower back muscles... I've never recovered from it nor will I ever.... (by the way for those reading it literally, we did the crunches on separate occasions for many years as opposed to anything else!)
- Klisk, on 06/05/2009, -1/+30Weight training will help you lose weight.
- manlyandy, on 06/05/2009, -0/+28Jektal is pointing out that thrash used the inch marker instead of the feet marker so he has claimed to be 5 inches tall. Not that funny anyway but just in case people didn't get where he was going with that....THE MORE YOU KNOW.
- flangepiece, on 06/05/2009, -2/+29It's obviously that the extra gravity from being higher up the planet generates more musclotrons when moving one's body. That's why northerners feel mildly superhuman when they visit the south.
- shitdrummer, on 06/05/2009, -1/+26Yeah! The article has no scientific validity... except for quoting a "professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo". Bah! What would he know?!?
- MxM111, on 06/05/2009, -1/+26Stomach crunches are not sit-ups! They are modified sit-ups. The low back should not leave the floor, only the upper back, thus the strain on spine is significantly reduced.
She is doing it wrong. Or as a digger would say, "She accidentally the whole sit-up" - AYork, on 06/05/2009, -1/+26um..."if you're in the northern hemisphere"?Please explain.
Please. I'd really like to hear this one. - Walker2323, on 06/05/2009, -1/+26"I lost 50lbs living on hot pockets, mountain dew, poptarts and the occasional McDonalds."
It's called "malnutrition", *****. - NJRFilms, on 06/05/2009, -2/+27Horrible article. And mostly ***** comments from out of shape diggers.
124 comments and only 1 mention of squats???
Squats, deads, bench, dips, pull ups, and a proper diet. That's going to take care of most of it. - kinerry, on 06/05/2009, -7/+31Why does the title tell me to stop doing one thing because another thing doesn't work?
- emjaysea, on 06/05/2009, -0/+24Yes, but more importantly than looking good, maintaining strong abs can help prevent a myriad of aches and pains, not to mention mobility problems, even if you do have a layer of laundry on those wash board abs.
Exercise for the health of it, not because you want to look good--that's what plastic surgery is for!
;-) - samk, on 06/05/2009, -2/+25Duh, there are penguins in the southern hemisphere. Have you ever tried to swim with penguins? I wouldn't recommend it. They hog the swim lanes.
- bpoteat, on 06/05/2009, -0/+23Yeah, that's what the article said. The sentence you quoted was a setup for proving how incorrect it is.
- energyinmotion, on 06/05/2009, -1/+24try telling this to my first sergeant.
- inactive, on 06/05/2009, -4/+24It's in the article. And makes perfect sense.
- brbeaird, on 06/05/2009, -1/+21That doesn't sound quite like the article I just read...
- jbbears554, on 06/05/2009, -0/+20"And of course, when people do crunches, they rarely stop at one or two: in the quest for flat abs, they’ll churn out dozens at a time,"
Well I guess you could do 1 a day... - ZonGuy, on 06/05/2009, -2/+22Unfortunately it's true.
- MrChunks, on 06/05/2009, -8/+26Haven't people been doing crunches with obvious results and no resulting damage to the body for eons?
- IllBeBack, on 06/05/2009, -0/+18@JDLamb88: If you are unable to do "regular" push ups where you raise your whole body from the feet, try instead to raise yourself from the point of your knees.
If you are still unable to raise your body weight from the knees, then you can start by pushing up while standing against an object such as a kitchen counter with your body positioned at an angle.
If you can't do even that, kill yourself because you are a huge bleeding vagina. (just kidding) - TheRedLemon, on 06/05/2009, -0/+18Chances are, you've already got a six pack and the only thing left to adjust is your bodyfat%.
- vortz83, on 06/05/2009, -1/+19it's been known that crunches are bad for your back for a while... i personally like doing planks.
- skoda, on 06/05/2009, -0/+18I think you're on the wrong article..
- diggduggDOOM, on 06/05/2009, -1/+19... and the southern hemisphere? What, no water? Can't swim? Not fun?
- bigpun, on 06/05/2009, -0/+18Planks are a great workout. Start off with sets of 30 seconds, then 45, then 60 an so on after a few weeks of doing each.
Regardless though, without a good balanced calorie controlled diet, doing 1000 crunches/sit ups a day, or planks or any other excercise - you're never going to get the best results. - namezod, on 06/05/2009, -2/+19And we all know Digg is full of limp wristed nerds!
- inactive, on 06/05/2009, -0/+16I wish they gave more healthy alternatives than just planks and leg drops.
- NinjaBull, on 06/05/2009, -1/+17hero
- ZonGuy, on 06/05/2009, -2/+18Squats are not miserable when you know you are preparing to dominate the woman population.
- buckygrad, on 06/05/2009, -10/+26"Everyone knows that road to flat, tight abs is paved with crunches." It is that kind of gullible thinking that powers over-hyped exercise equipment and videos. There is no such thing as spot reduction. You need diet, and then exercise. If you don't reduce you calorie intake below that of what you utilize, it doesn't matter how much or what kind of exercising you do you will never lose the muffin top.
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