How do you train abs?

Loquacious_Dragon · 2020-02-06T00:24:27+00:00

Do you grow them or do you reveal them?

Ab's are built in the gym and revealed in the kitchen.

If your goal is well defined ab's you need to go about it two ways;

low body fat percentage (7-10% for the shredded look), there will be a small amount of individual diversity due to your genetic fat distribution meaning some lose fat off their abs last.
Hypertrophy of the rectus abdominis and TVA leading to larger more defined abs (This can lead to abs at higher bf %'s)

For building them you want to train them every day (3-5 times min if you can't manage daily), I'd recommend hanging leg raises, ab wheel roll outs and weighted decline crunches, do this in a circuit for 3-5 sets.

3 months of this and a heavy cut and you'll have washboard ab's.

Does having them increase your strength?

A bit of an ambiguous question but having a stronger core does have significant carry over to functional strength, posture and certain parts of training.

GayLubeOil · 2020-02-06T03:28:23+00:00

Hanging leg raise

thechaosz · 2020-02-06T00:21:41+00:00

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fratercicero · 2020-02-06T03:10:52+00:00

Believe it or not I’ve built strong abs through deadlifting. When I first started deadlifting it really exposed the fact that I had a weak core. Over time as the amount I deadlifted increased the more my abs started showing.

theUnBannableHulk · 2020-02-06T06:00:51+00:00

Develop in gym through lifting heavy and a couple of ab exercises thrown in.

Expose in kitchen by cuttring down on carbs and lessening caloric intake to below maintenance and getting to sub 10% body fat

If your core is strong, you probably already have good shoe, only fixing diet will help get em definition

chika_paya · 2020-02-07T07:42:14+00:00

Ab muscles are divided into three segments: upper abs, lower abs and obliques. Each abs segment demands a different exercise to be trained (eg. crunches for upper abs, reverse crunches for lower abs, cable wood choppers for obliques) and since these muscles work hard every day to keep your torso upright while you go about your day, they need high volume and lots of progressive overload to be developed.

To achieve hypertrophy, make sure to incorporate dumbbells in your abs workouts to check the box for progressive overload, and aim to train them at least 3 sets of 15-20 reps every day.

TehJimmyy · 2020-02-06T00:21:14+00:00

both , it doesn't increase strength but improves stability and prevents injuries which in long term will improve your progress and strength indirectly

Title	How do you train abs?
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