if your goal is to simply get better at your techniques, you’re on the right track.
for the sake of staving off boredom, i like to narrow down my training and do just a few techniques (not like wing chun has many techniques to begin with) and just work the snot out of them for the day, then work a different few the next day. it keeps my workouts somewhat new each time, and if i can still do individual techniques correctly even though the individual muscles are dead tired, they’re more likely to be done that way when i really need them – very much a muscle memory thing.
Those high rep crunches arn’t going to do anything for you. Add weight to your crunches or be satisfied with no results. Not to mention you have to push yourself to the very max in order to have your muscles grow, and it seems like you just rounded off at 75. Add weight and do as many as possible, don’t just stop at a number of reps because it ends in 5 or 0. And make sure you either add weight or reps every workout or your ab’s aren’t going anywhere.
Originally posted by KaiKhoon Those high rep crunches arn’t going to do anything for you. Add weight to your crunches or be satisfied with no results.
KaiKhoon has done 100 crunches with the correct.
I’m a little infamous for my no-point high rep sets of abs myself. When I have an ab-doer I do up to 3000 a day/ night/ sesh. But to think it’s responsible for anything more than muscular endurance in your core , is incorrect. I also get toned, but I think that’s more about what i’m eating. When I’ve ripped tightest was when I was recruiting for the NZ army doing only 118 crunches, some heavy boxing sets on a bag and a few very lighter sets at night.
An abdoer if you can find one, will allow you to play with resistance though and I think I see the most benifit there with obliques. Awesome machine for all its’ primativeness and I’m looking forward to getting one shipped out the minute I get back to Australia.
Ps. The rest of the routine sounds good. How long does it take you to do all that??
Originally posted by blooming lotus I’m a little infamous for my no-point high rep sets of abs myself. When I have an ab-doer I do up to 3000 a day/ night/ sesh. But to think it’s responsible for anything more than muscular endurance in your core , is incorrect. I also get toned, but I think that’s more about what i’m eating. When I’ve ripped tightest was when I was recruiting for the NZ army doing only 118 crunches, some heavy boxing sets on a bag and a few very lighter sets at night. Pukes from hearing “the word”
no I said it was more dietary combined with yrs of gerenral conditioning. But the high rep sets give me core endurance muscularly and contribute to cardio endurance.
An ab - doer is a particluar machine made in Aus. It’s a seated machine with a side half arc bar from the back the has a flexible spine. It does lateral and back / forward motions at 360 degree range. If you get into it from the front, it’s like a boxing workout. If you bring it up to a sofa, and lay off the sofa on the chair bit of the ab-doer, arms long to the side , and add a twist, you can get an awesome oblique work out. If you come straight with it in the same position, you can get into your lower abs on resisted decline or incline ( where most get that pot ).
I also put it on an angle, hike a knee on the chair and do lightly resisted tricep extensions or lay off the back on my stomache ( hands under chin ) , feet on the handles and get a good lower back extension workout. or I use it for some good inner ( or even outer) thigh work, equating to a weighted pulley like you might find on a nordelaus. It’s not enough resistence to call it serious weight, but it’s enough to sweat hard for hours.
It’s had a bad wrap from some folks here, but if you’re interested you can pick one up for about aus$ 300 + 12 kgs of p&p from www.danoz.com
Ps: there’s also an ab-swing ( probably less effexctive) but check it out if you’re interested.
You can waste your time doing 3000 crunches a day, or you can add weight and do 20 and as long as you bring yourself to muscle failure you will get the same results. Although doing 3000 probably takes several times longer, obviously.
You also say that crunches without weight help your cardio ? Wrong.. you can push yourself to 90% of your cardio max 3 times a day(crunches won’t even get you to 90%, I doubt even 60%-70%), and it won’t get you as good of results as if you had run 1 time at 100% of your cardio max.
Weighted sit ups will tone you just as well if not better, in a much quicker time. If you’re looking for endurnace im not sure which is better, although obviously 3000 crunches sounds like the better way to go, how much do you actually know about the body and it’s muscle growth ?
Originally posted by blooming lotus When I have an ab-doer I do up to 3000 a day/ night/ sesh. But to think it’s responsible for anything more than muscular endurance in your core , is incorrect. I also get toned, but I think that’s more about what i’m eating.
She said 3000 ab-doers only builds endurance (the real BL would say strength). She said she’s toned from diet (the real BL would say 3000 ab-doers). She’s an imposter! :mad:
Originally posted by KaiKhoon
[B]You also say that crunches without weight help your cardio ? Wrong…
and it won’t get you as good of results as if you had run 1 time at 100% of your cardio max.
Weighted sit ups will tone you just as well if not better, in a much quicker time. If you’re looking for endurnace im not sure which is better, although obviously 3000 crunches sounds like the better way to go, how much do you actually know about the body and it’s muscle growth ? [/B]
I don’t know what you’re trying to say, but besides keto diets if there’s a thing or speciality muscle group or fitness facet I know about , it’s abs and running ( both spint and distance). A hard sweat ab based boxing similiation sesh even free weight without the resistance 'll give you a better cardio sesh than your run. Say what you like from naevity but it is you who is wrong and I don’t care to elaborate further…
Originally posted by blooming lotus A hard sweat ab based boxing similiation sesh even free weight without the resistance 'll give you a better cardio sesh than your run.
What exactly is this? Can you describe in clear terms what you mean by this?
