Question re ab workout...

EmmaReed84

I work out at the gym 3 days a week, I do 36 minutes of cardio, weights and TRX. I go Monday, Wednesday and Friday with rest days in between.

Would it be a benefit or and hindrance to do an ab work out on Tuesday and Thursday to help with my wobbly middle? I am happy with my size, I just really want to tone up my stomach a bit more. My holiday is in 83 days LOL.

Any advice or tips would be great...

EmmaReed84

anyone?

tricksee

Abs are visible through low body fat %, not necessarily from doing tons of ab workouts.

Based on that my advice is perfect your diet.

EmmaReed84

Abs are visible through low body fat %, not necessarily from doing tons of ab workouts.

Based on that my advice is perfect your diet.

Thank you.

The only issue I have with my diet is that when I eat super healthy I don't get anywhere near my 1200... I do not like avocados, peanut butter or any other kind of nuts so bumping up my calories is difficult and find myself eating a chocolate, yoghurt or something else to up my calories. I also have to be very careful how much protein I have because I have kidney disease.

Any advice re diet would be great!

Alcoria

unfortunately you cant spot reduce you would have to continue losing body fat all over the body until the belly shrunk down my biggest advice would be check over your nutrition make sure you are healthy as you can be with your eating and do more time with weights then cardio. use your cardio for a 10 minute warmup you wont bulk up females just cant so lift heavy (as heavy as YOU can) the more muscle you have the more fat burning you get. and you get that lean toned look instead of what they call "skinny fat" no tone at all.


also when you start lifting heavy you will need to up your calories and only go up by 100 or 200 increments that way you wont gain the weight and it easier to find out what calorie set you need to stay in the fat burning zone.

hope this helps.

keep up the great work and you will get there.

TavistockToad

Abs are visible through low body fat %, not necessarily from doing tons of ab workouts.

Based on that my advice is perfect your diet.

Thank you.

The only issue I have with my diet is that when I eat super healthy I don't get anywhere near my 1200... I do not like avocados, peanut butter or any other kind of nuts so bumping up my calories is difficult and find myself eating a chocolate, yoghurt or something else to up my calories. I also have to be very careful how much protein I have because I have kidney disease.

Any advice re diet would be great!

theres nothing wrong with yoghurt? or eating full fat dairy to up your cals.

EmmaReed84

Abs are visible through low body fat %, not necessarily from doing tons of ab workouts.

Based on that my advice is perfect your diet.

Thank you.

The only issue I have with my diet is that when I eat super healthy I don't get anywhere near my 1200... I do not like avocados, peanut butter or any other kind of nuts so bumping up my calories is difficult and find myself eating a chocolate, yoghurt or something else to up my calories. I also have to be very careful how much protein I have because I have kidney disease.

Any advice re diet would be great!

theres nothing wrong with yoghurt? or eating full fat dairy to up your cals.

The yoghurt part might not be that bad, but I bet the chocolate balls in the other side aint too good LOL.

Some people say if you have enough calories to eat a chocolate OR crisps OR "naughty" yoghurt then have it, but I can have enough calories to eat ALL of them...

Does anyone have an open diary of good ways bump up calories that I can have a look at.

TavistockToad

Abs are visible through low body fat %, not necessarily from doing tons of ab workouts.

Based on that my advice is perfect your diet.

Thank you.

The only issue I have with my diet is that when I eat super healthy I don't get anywhere near my 1200... I do not like avocados, peanut butter or any other kind of nuts so bumping up my calories is difficult and find myself eating a chocolate, yoghurt or something else to up my calories. I also have to be very careful how much protein I have because I have kidney disease.

Any advice re diet would be great!

theres nothing wrong with yoghurt? or eating full fat dairy to up your cals.

The yoghurt part might not be that bad, but I bet the chocolate balls in the other side aint too good LOL.

Some people say if you have enough calories to eat a chocolate OR crisps OR "naughty" yoghurt then have it, but I can have enough calories to eat ALL of them...

Does anyone have an open diary of good ways bump up calories that I can have a look at.

i never said eat your extra calories in chocolate, i said that there is nothing wrong with eating full fat dairy to increase your calories....

personally i go with IIFYM, but then i have never had the cant eat enough issue!

EmmaReed84

Abs are visible through low body fat %, not necessarily from doing tons of ab workouts.

Based on that my advice is perfect your diet.

Thank you.

The only issue I have with my diet is that when I eat super healthy I don't get anywhere near my 1200... I do not like avocados, peanut butter or any other kind of nuts so bumping up my calories is difficult and find myself eating a chocolate, yoghurt or something else to up my calories. I also have to be very careful how much protein I have because I have kidney disease.

Any advice re diet would be great!

theres nothing wrong with yoghurt? or eating full fat dairy to up your cals.

The yoghurt part might not be that bad, but I bet the chocolate balls in the other side aint too good LOL.

Some people say if you have enough calories to eat a chocolate OR crisps OR "naughty" yoghurt then have it, but I can have enough calories to eat ALL of them...

Does anyone have an open diary of good ways bump up calories that I can have a look at.

i never said eat your extra calories in chocolate, i said that there is nothing wrong with eating full fat dairy to increase your calories....

personally i go with IIFYM, but then i have never had the cant eat enough issue!

erm *scratches head with confused look* I did say, you said to eat the chocolate... I was making a joke about the fact it was a yoghurt with a side of chocolate... As in ha ha ha?

What is IIFYM?

JenMc14

Diet is definitely the way to get abs. Eat until your hungry, make sure you're fueling your body enough for your workouts and see what happens. If you're concerned about not getting to 1200, try cooking with olive oil or adding a bit to veggies. Get full fat or 2% yogurt, without the chocolate balls! Try cottage cheese with your fruit. Drink a cup of chocolate milk after a workout. If all else fails, add in a protein shake.

As for ab workouts, I really enjoy the core workouts in the BeFit 30 days 6 pack abs challenge. There's 4 or5 strength videos and 4 or 5 cardio videos. They're found at the BeFit channel on YouTube. Also, when you're lifting, are you lifting heavy with the "big" lifts? The big compound lifts like squats, deadlift, bench, military press and bent over rows are really great for your whole body and reallyuse the core to stabalize.

Alcoria

i actually have a problem eating enough food im just never hungry until dinner time. to up your cals try healthy smoothies theres a she hulk style smoothie by melissa bender http://www.benderfitness.com/2012/07/green-smoothie-she-hulk-style.html and theres plenty more recipes and workouts on her site if you want to check it out the she hulk smoothie ive actually tried myself and it was pretty good. check around on google for healthy recipes or recipes in general and then do a make over on them to make them more healthy. or even check out here on the forums for healthy recipes.

TavistockToad

What is IIFYM?

if it fits your macros