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Is there a limit to sit ups?

D.Iros Posts: 4 Joined: 2005/11/19	2005/11/19, 06:52 PM Hey, I was just wondering: If someone trains their abs untill the exercise doesn't hurt anymore and then raises the number of reps, and keep raising,will it ever come to a limit? Will it stop hurting someday?
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2005/11/19, 08:27 PM Resistance is key to abs, not reps. Raising reps will burn more calories of course through more energy expenditure, but will not build you more muscle. Adding resistance and proper rest will build the muscle, whether in your abs or anywhere else. -------------- If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything....
	2005/11/20, 06:09 AM Don't go beyond 20...and you can use weight and lower reps ....abs respond well to high intensity low reps....as they are fast twitch muscles..
D.Iros Posts: 4 Joined: 2005/11/19	2005/11/20, 08:31 PM But how do you use weight in abs exercise???
btsgirl Posts: 6 Joined: 2005/11/22	2005/11/22, 11:26 AM You can use plate weights (on chest) during crunches, do leg lifts on a slant board or medicine balls and dumbells if the ab exercise you are doing will allow so. Make sure to add weights with caution though. Its more important to have good technique. I'm sure there are other ways to add weights but these are my personal preferences.
mfiechtner Posts: 1 Joined: 2005/12/04	2005/12/10, 12:40 AM you can also use the pull down rope and get on your knees and pull the rope down to your head and lower your head to the ground and flex your stomach
spinna Posts: 2 Joined: 2006/01/12	2006/01/12, 12:13 PM ============ Quoting from bb1fit: Resistance is key to abs, not reps. Raising reps will burn more calories of course through more energy expenditure, but will not build you more muscle. ============= Through doing High Reps and burning calories, will this provide definition by removing fat around the muscle being used, or is fat burned from different areas indiscriminantly?
2fingers Posts: 166 Joined: 2005/02/23	2006/01/12, 08:27 PM I beleive that it is commonly held that spot reduction is impossible. People have posted that diet is the only way to remove the stuff in fornt of abs.
Nyxtikal Posts: 268 Joined: 2005/09/20	2006/01/12, 08:30 PM that is true......you can do thousands of sit ups every day, but if you take in 10,000 calories from mcdonalds you wont be seeing a six pack anytime soon
	2006/01/13, 12:17 AM Spinna ...although you'll expend more calories...the extra expended calories are negligible....also the body will burn from everywhere in the body....not just the abs....(although it depends for everyone where the body prefers to first store/use fat storages...may very well be stomach for some people...this is mostly genetics)