Make any Ab Workout More Powerful with these 5 Techniques

So you are doing 1000’s of sit-ups every single day yet you can’t even see your abs. You knock one ab workout out after another but never even feel your abs hurt. You do every workout or exercise you have seen on our website exactly as we show it, yet no 6 pack abs to show for it. So what is the problem?!

The problem might be that you need to take a step back and focus on your form. For example, on the surface doing an ab exercise like crunches seems nice and simple, yet most people do it completely wrong and so never get any results and say crunches SUCK! When in reality it is their form and technique that sucks!

So in this article I am going to share 5 powerful techniques that will take any ab workout or exercise you do to the next level. Some of these techniques might seem very simple and easy to do but as with most things in life, it is those simple and small changes that can make a big difference at the end of the day.

Contraction

Most people do ab exercises so quickly that they never actually stimulate their abs at all. One of the first and easiest ways to make sure your abs get a workout is to make sure you contract your abdominals on every repetition. This means, for example, when performing a crunch, you will come up, hold the position for a second or two and really contract your abdominals, before you move back down again. Contracting your abs will help stimulate them to grow and can mean the difference between getting 6 pack abs and never seeing them at all!

Tension

There is no point in taking a 3min break between each rep of every ab exercise you do. You must keep continuous tension on your abdominal muscles as you train them to make sure you hit them hard and stimulate the muscle fibers. So if we look at the crunch again, after you have contracted the abdominals in the top position, do not go all the way back down and rest your upper body on the floor. Keep it just a few inches off the floor and then immediately lift back up again for your next repetition. This will ensure you keep the intensity high throughout the movement and not give your abs so much rest that they never actually get a good workout.

Evolve

When it comes to training your abs, changing your workouts and exercises every 3 to 4 weeks is a good idea. Now I am not just talking about changing exercises for the sake of getting new exercises. Sure that will help with boredom but we are more interested in RESULTS and helping you get 6 pack abs faster. So when you change exercises around you must also make sure the new exercises are more difficult than the one’s you used before. You want to become stronger, you want to EVOLVE to something better, not just change to something just as good as you had before.

Intensity

A lack of intensity is one of main reasons many people don’t get results at all. They will blame the workout program, the supplements they are taking, their busy lifestyles and sometimes even the weather instead of looking deep inside themselves for the real problem. They don’t push hard enough. They don’t take it to the next level with every workout. And they never train to a point of failure to actually stimulate their abs so that they need to grow bigger. I cannot hammer this point in enough. If you do not train your abs to failure you are just wasting your time and will see little or no results and you will not get that ripped midsection you have always looked for. So you need to push to a point where you can’t do one more rep of any given exercise when you train your abs. And even then you must try and do 2 or 3 more. This is going to be the only way you will force your abs to grow, whether they like it or not!

Breathing

Many of you might know an ab exercise called Vacuums ( I will add a video up next week to show you this exercise ) but for those that don’t, it is basically an ab exercise that uses the vacuum that gets created in your abdomen when breathing out to help contract your abs. If you have never done this then you can stand up right now where you are and take a deep breath in and then start to exhale and continue until you feel you have no more air in your lungs. At this point you will start to feel a very strong contraction in your abdominal area. You can now on top of this also crunch your abs and all of sudden you have a very strong and powerful contraction of your abdominal muscle and this is called Vacuums. The good thing is that you can use this technique on almost any other ab exercise as well. Let’s go back to a crunch again. Breathe in as you go down and as you come up and do the crunch start to breathe out. As you get to the top of the crunch movement you continue to breathe out all the air and hold the contraction for 2 seconds. All of sudden you will work your abs in a way you have never done before and your 1000 crunches you where able to do before will be cut down to around 20 as your abs will hurt so much you won’t want to get up, EVER!

So there you go, 5 simple yet powerful techniques that you should start to use with every ab workout or exercise you are doing if you are not already.

These techniques work especially well with abs but you can try many of them with almost any other exercise to get better results too!