What are the best foods/workouts for ABS?!

I would like to know too. I'm doing crunches now, but what else can I do.

No food in general.. Just healthy choices and patience. Unfortunately, we cannot target where our fat melts from. It's a little bit from all over with each pound we lose.

As for ab workouts: I LOVE P90X's Ab Ripper X -- Well I hate life while I'm doing it, but I love the results.

unfortunately thats the last to go, just keep at it

indeed!! fat goes where fat goes..as far as I know, there isn't a specific exercise that targets 'belly fat' :-(

as for food, id say just avoid any high fat foods...

I suggest sticking with a good cardio workout, eating healty, cutting back on unhealthy carbs and sodium. Something fun I like to do as a female is BellyDancing workouts. I'm not a fan of exercise so I like to make it fun and interesting. I took a Belly Dance class and OMG every muscle in my body ached the first day. A lot of the ladies in the class I was in had lost 60, 80 and 100 lbs just taking the class, but you will feel it.

I did an exercise earlier this evening working the lower abdominals. Lay flat on your back and place the legs in the air and straight. Then with your feet like a pencil keeping your legs straight write each capital letter of the alphabet. Then go on to numbers,
It's a killer but really great. Then do leg raises, and finish with legs straight out about and inch off the floor laterally open the legs then close them crossing over and repeat till failure. Hope This helps I know I'll be feeling it in the morning

Katie, they are hard to get and you'll see a lot of results before abs. Especially since they require low body fat percentage to get them showing hence a reason adding muscle helps (more muscle means you can be heavier weight, but less body fat). Oh, also while it can be tempting to think of getting good abs just from strong abs (and the obliques)...the back also plays into it (or at least it has been seeming that way to me). So stuff that works the core all around is awesome, especially when hitting larger groups of muscles. Like a set I used to do would alternate squats with pullups and once done with those sets I did deadlifts. So it worked legs, core, back...and as a large group.

Erin, I do agree Ab Ripper X is good....some of the exercises get me too. I've heard supposedly one of the ab or core workouts in TurboFire is even more targeted/intense towards the core, I really want to try that.

I'm interested in this too. They are right, the belly is the last thing to go! I've been doing Jillian Michaels' "6 Week Six-Pack" workout. I really do feel the muscles under there, but unfortunately they are hiding behind the baby pooch! I think changing my diet and adding more protein like people here suggested might be the key.

CARDIO and LITTLE-TO-NO SUGAR! Core & ab exercises are great, but if there is a layer of belly-fat hiding those sexy muscles, then you need to run, run, run your heart out and cut out as much sugar as you can from your diet. Good luck!

Search YouTube for Floor Sweepers and Windshield wipers!! I do 30 Floor sweepers 3x per week along with sit-ups holding a medicine ball. When I flex I can just about see the start of a 4-pack. YIPPEE :happy: