i have been doing sit up and all that stuff for about 4 months now and have seen little change. now i do not eat 100% the best for it but for doing 300 a day i think i should see something. not going for the picture perfect ab's i know i can't get them do to my diet BUT my question is can you over work your abs? guess would it be like weight lifting to much to the point that you would not see any thing just because those muscles never get a chance to rest? 300 sit ups a day i do normaly take sat and sun off
Well you have to burn fat off your stomach too. I suggest running i've been doing it for a while and it works your abs rlly fast and has great results
there are a few reasons this isn't working…
1) spot reducing doesn't work, you cannot just work out your abs and get nice abs, it just doesn't work. when you work out you burn calories, you do not choose where the fat these calories burn comes from, your body does. Also, just situps dont burn much calories.
2) you do the same thing. your body adjusts to a workout routine after 6wks, at this point if you are doing the same workouts or the same workouts in the same order it will stop doing anything for your body
3) situps do not target every ab muscle, there are your side ab muscles, top, bottom, and underneath, you must work each one to get good abs.
4) if you have fat on top of your abs you need to do cardio as ab exercises build the ab muscle (making them thicker) but do not burn the fat off (if your routine was including many ab moves and changing each 6wks you would build ab muscle, you would poke and be a little harder underneath the fat, and your side view would show you looker thicker, because the muscle builds but builds under the fat, cardio burns away the fat)
5)eating. it matters. drink lots of water, retaining water will make you bloated looking and the only way to not retain is to drink lots consistently.
