Thread: Sit-ups vs. Crunches

Might as well share my ab workout:

Weighted crunches – 2 x 10-12
Weighted leg raises – 1 x 10-12

Swiss ball crunches and rope crunches should replace these respectively if its possible for you. Those are the best 2.

Originally Posted by ozzy

Might as well share my ab workout:

Weighted crunches – 2 x 10-12
Weighted leg raises – 1 x 10-12

Swiss ball crunches and rope crunches should replace these respectively if its possible for you. Those are the best 2.

Umm which of them are the best 2? :P
But I was wondering how do you weight them? Leg weights I've seen aren't heavy enough for me.. Crunches with a dumbbell on your chest?

Originally Posted by Redflad

Umm which of them are the best 2? :P
But I was wondering how do you weight them? Leg weights I've seen aren't heavy enough for me.. Crunches with a dumbbell on your chest?

Do both. The crunches work your upper abs, leg raises work you lower ones. The leg weights are heavy enough, trust me you'll feel it once you use them it doesn't take much.
Anyway leg weights are for leg raises, for crunches just hold a medicine ball on your chest for weight. What I like to do is hold the medicine ball in front of my chest, come up and bring my legs up and put it between my legs, go back down and straighten my legs then come back up and take the ball and repeat. Make sure you always keep your legs at least 6 inches off the ground and you should feel it.
As for reps, keep doing them until you feel your abs burning. Remember the number you did, and do 3 sets of that.

Originally Posted by ozzy

Might as well share my ab workout:

Weighted crunches – 2 x 10-12
Weighted leg raises – 1 x 10-12

Swiss ball crunches and rope crunches should replace these respectively if its possible for you. Those are the best 2.

if thats all you rep with maybe you should consider putting halo down once inawhile and hitting the gym more often.

Originally Posted by Sion

if thats all you rep with maybe you should consider putting halo down once inawhile and hitting the gym more often.

Its hard to tell if you are a terrible troll or just that plain stupid. I guess it doesn't really matter because both are pathetic and I never expect much more out of you anyways.

Originally Posted by djwolford

Given that they're weighted exercises,and in the 10-12 rep range, I'm guessing that his routine is geared more towards hypertrophy than endurance. I could be wrong but it sounds like a nice routine to build some thick abs.

lrn2w0rkout

thats a total of 40 weighted ab workouts a day.
it took me 200 situps with a 45 lb weight every day for 4 months to get the six pack i have today.
hes not going anywhere with a pathetic workout like that.