30 day Abs Challenge starts 1 May
SkimFlatWhite68
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Hi everyone!!
So we did a 30 day Squat Challenge in April - lets give the legs a rest and do an Abs Challenge in May.
Here is the link where you can see video examples of the exercises, download the app to your phone and set up a reminder - also makes it easy to count off the days and reps. It is free: http://30dayfitnesschallenges.com/30-day-abs-challenge/
QUOTED FROM WEBSITE
"Take up this 30 day abs challenge this month and tone up and boost your core muscles and body strength to the max.
The challenge has 4 different exercises which you have to do each day, and the time spent doing the exercise slowly increases day by day to help you build up your core body muscle strength gradually, ensuring you are able to complete the final day of the challenge easily.
You only have to do the amount of time shown on the challenge chart once per day, however if you are feeling brave then you can repeat each days challenge as many times as you like – however remember by day 30 it will be very hard to do multiple times."
The exercises are:
Sit Ups
Crunches
Leg Raises
Plank
Day 1 has 15 Sit Ups; 5 Crunches; 5 Leg Raises; 10 second Plank (pretty easy)
All the way up to Day 30, which has 125 Sit Ups; 200 Crunches; 65 Leg Raises; 120 second Plank (pretty hard).
I'm already making a face at day 30 - but I didn't think I'd be able to do 250 squats when I started the squat challenge and I did - so I'm going to give this a red hot go as well.
Who is going to join in???
So we did a 30 day Squat Challenge in April - lets give the legs a rest and do an Abs Challenge in May.
Here is the link where you can see video examples of the exercises, download the app to your phone and set up a reminder - also makes it easy to count off the days and reps. It is free: http://30dayfitnesschallenges.com/30-day-abs-challenge/
QUOTED FROM WEBSITE
"Take up this 30 day abs challenge this month and tone up and boost your core muscles and body strength to the max.
The challenge has 4 different exercises which you have to do each day, and the time spent doing the exercise slowly increases day by day to help you build up your core body muscle strength gradually, ensuring you are able to complete the final day of the challenge easily.
You only have to do the amount of time shown on the challenge chart once per day, however if you are feeling brave then you can repeat each days challenge as many times as you like – however remember by day 30 it will be very hard to do multiple times."
The exercises are:
Sit Ups
Crunches
Leg Raises
Plank
Day 1 has 15 Sit Ups; 5 Crunches; 5 Leg Raises; 10 second Plank (pretty easy)
All the way up to Day 30, which has 125 Sit Ups; 200 Crunches; 65 Leg Raises; 120 second Plank (pretty hard).
I'm already making a face at day 30 - but I didn't think I'd be able to do 250 squats when I started the squat challenge and I did - so I'm going to give this a red hot go as well.
Who is going to join in???
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I really need to strengthen my core so I'm in......0
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Hell, yeah! Already started
Just want to find an equivalent to sit-ups, perhaps 1:10 crunches? 0 -
Quiet on the ab front lol. I thought it would be easy the first couple of weeks but I am already feeling it. I think it is going to be quite time consuming towards the end, at least the squats I could slip a few in at work and those planks are going to be killers!0
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Any one still got this. Starting to feel lonely. This is as lot harder than the squat challenge but if I get the same results it will be worth it :-)0
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Hi Jackie!!! LOL, sorry I was a bit absent there!!
I missed the first few days, but I've got the app on my phone so it reminds me to do it now!! Chosen night time for these ones and yes you are right - OMG killer. No idea how I am going to get that last week done!! The pain, the pain!!
BUT - I felt like that about the squat challenge too - at the beginning I wondered how I would do 250 squats but it wasn't that bad at all.
The planks - yep, they are going to kill me.0 -
Hell, yeah! Already started Just want to find an equivalent to sit-ups, perhaps 1:10 crunches?
Hi Vic, yes, just find an alternative to sit-ups. Maybe some oblique twists instead of more crunches?0 -
Still hanging in there, just! Yesterday was rest day but I did it anyway as I was at the gym. I will rest today as I am staying over at my daughters and I feel a bit crappy today.0
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Right, I am still in it - had to have 2 rest days as after Thursday's effort I had to roll out of bed on Friday and yesterday was still really sore but I think that was a rest day anyway..
Today is as follows:
Crunches 110
Leg Raises 48
Plank 70 seconds
Sit Ups 80
I've decided to break this into 5 sets from now. The first set will be 30 Crunches, 10 Leg Raises, the dreaded Plank (gets it out of the way early before my abs get too fatigued, 20 sit-ups.
Then the second to fourth set will be 20 Crunches, 10 Leg Raises, 20 sit-ups.
Last set 20 Crunches, 8 Leg Raises
I think that will make it easier to complete. I usually do them at home but today is a weights day, so I'm off to the gym and I might even do each set of abs between weights just to break it up a bit .. because to be honest I'm not sure I can do it all in one go. This is hard!!0 -
I have decided that we will do an ARMS challenge in June and then the Squat Challenge again in July.
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The next 12 WEEK CHALLENGE will kick off on Monday 28 July 2014 - in conjunction with the Max and Maxine's Challenge (which I will be entering). Here is the link if you would like more information:
http://www.maxineschallenge.com.au/2013/maxines/index.php - for the ladies - you can pre-register and they send you an email every now and again. I did it last year (kind of) so please ask if you would like any information.
http://www.maxchallenge.com.au/maxs/ - for the fellas!0 -
I did the abs challenge yesterday with my weights workout. It was a LOT easier breaking it up into sets and managing it between my other supersets. Mind you, by the end my abs were screaming. Those last few sit-ups were HARD!!!
I'm going to swap tomorrow's rest day with today because there is no way I'd be able to do it again today, I'm aching all over!
In fact, from here on, I think it would be best to do every second day because I really think I need to rest the muscles every second day., just like I wouldn't train legs 2 days in a row. The squat challenge was MUCH easier than this.
Of course, I never, ok, rarely train abs, so they probably didn't have much strength to start off. I still think I use my core, just with my normal weights, and I started Pilates last month so I know I work my abs at some level, but I've never worked them like this before.
Keep on keeping on!!0 -
Day 19 done :-)
I had 2 rest days just because I was not at gym and it just seems easier to Do them there.
Im mixing up the plank challenge with the ab challenge. Today was 190 seconds arrrrgggggghhhh0 -
Jackie, I'm in agony! I don't know how the hell I am going to keep going at this rate. I'm going to have to back down to every 3 days.0
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I'm having to do this every 3 days now. It's taking that long to recover. NOT at all easy!!0
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Last day today of the Abs Challenge. Thank goodness!!
I've been a bit slack this week, only done it once due to having a very hectic life and not having time (plus it's taking me 3 days to recover from the last one the harder it gets) but will do the final day today - this is going to hurt.
Hope everyone has kept it up??0 -
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