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Ab Workout: Crunch the Numbers

Carve out your six-pack by adding some weight to your exercises with this ab workout.

Ab Workout: Crunch the Numbers
Written By Jim Stoppani, PhD
Updated July 1, 2020

Here’s the thing with abs: Everyone trains them, but not everyone trains them correctly. And more is not always better.

Super high reps may help you win a sit-up competition, but it's not necessarily the best way to get your abs to pop out. Yes, diet and body fat percentage are key factors to a washboard stomach, but muscle hypertrophy matters too.

Guys get it wrong when they consider abs to be different than every other muscle group. They train their pecs and biceps to get bigger using rep schemes of 8-12 while doing 50-100 crunches in hopes of chiseling out their six-packs. For some reason, we’ve forgotten the rules of progression. Rather than doing more reps for abs, try

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