The human body has a capacity and it needs to normalize itself before switching over to another demanding process.
If you do heavy workouts every single day without giving the body and rest the only thing you are doing is tiring yourself and delaying the progress.
Combine your weight training days with rest periods, and you will see lean muscles appearing on your body sooner.
When you do high intensity workouts, your fats get burned up.
While your body is recovering these fats get harder and turn into muscle fibers.
But if you go on working out at the same level, your body doesn't get a chance.
This is most applicable to training the abs.
people get crazy about getting six packs and eight packs and go on working out the muscles.
This won't give the desired results.
Try higher sets of crunches and twisting one day followed by low intensity exercises that burn your calories only, e.
g.
jogging.
Don't go on pumping your muscles.
This will only drain you out.
There are more amounts of mythology and misinformation involved with abs training.
Recently a number of gadgets have come out in the market that promises to give you those coveted six packs without you having to do any workout.
But abdominal muscles are no joke to generate.
You should follow a rational method while going for it.
The three critical things to abs training are high intensity overload, gradual increase of the intensity and proper rest periods.
The main abs exercise is the crunches.
So while on the first day you do around 20 crunches per set increase it to 25 the next day.
Train for 2 days and rest for one day.
Don't over train or under train.
Your capacity will really depend on you.
Do as much as you can take and recover from.
Talking about the so called revolutionary gadgets that have come up, it's laughable how they promise to build your abs using two AA batteries.
Can a couple of these batteries lift the torso of a man 20 times per minute? Not to mention the extra pounds that is added in serious weight training exercises.
These cheap electric belts and magnetic vibrators are a nonsense and be better done without.
So the next time you see such advertisements on T.
V.
just change the channel.
These people are thugs and play with people's ignorance.
The best abs exercises are weighted crunches, weighted inclined sit up and just normal weighted sit ups given decreasing amount of output generation.
You can also do the leg raises, use the roman chairs and others but these three are the best.
Weighted crunches: Lie flat on the floor, facing up with your head placed close to the weight stack connected to the pulley.
Go for the attached rope handles and grasp its ends.
Pull until it is tight and rest your hands close to the ears.
Do the crunch by contracting your abs muscles such that your shoulders get lifted up and the weight stack is drawn an inch or two upwards.
Choose a heavy weight that tires you within 10 repetitions.
Try a few sets.
You can also use chain pulley equipment for this.
A chain pulley is basically for the shoulders but you can use it here as well.
In this case sit on the floor with your head beneath the rope handles.
Lock your legs to get the balance.
As before draw the handle close to the ears and do the crunch.
Maintain a heavy weight.
You can also use a barbell for the weight crunches but in that case the effectiveness gets reduced.