Challenge: All I want for Christmas is a six pack....
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Good luck getting back on it JasonDeem.
I'm coming off my back injury now.
Went for a swim with the kids yesterday for an hour and I can still move and not seize up so that is a bonus from last week.Couldn't stand up from my desk most of last week without being doubled up. Today I got a small twinge. So no pain which is a big improvment.
I also dropped 2.5-3 pounds this week with no exercise so heading in the right direction.
Don't think I will have the six pack by christmas but gonna keep going for it and bulding up again.
Start at a new gym in the next week or 2 with a pool so Swimming starts to strengthen the back then the targetted core exercises start.
Although I might give some leg raises a try tonight to see how things respond.
Keep it up all.0 -
I'm a bit late but would like to join!
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How is everybody getting on with this challenge. Are you completing your ab exercises every other day mixed in with your resistence and cardio (or whatever your regime is) and being VERY careful with your diet. Only 8 weeks to Christmas, if we want this, WE CAN DO IT it but we are going to need to focus and stay motivated to our end goal.
I used the randomabs.com website last night for a set of exercises - they hit the spot and if you don't have your own ab programme sorted, use this - the advice is work your abs every other day - but make sure your form is good (better to do 5 of something really well than 12 poorly).
Unfortunately for you lot, I am an over achiever..... I will remind you, nag you, motivate you and applaud you..... whilst trying to be better than you.....ha ha ha only kidding (or am I???) well, only one way to be sure I am not better than you, and that is for you to be better than me..... SO COME ON, we are in this together (albeit that I am secretly competing with you all!). xxx0 -
Didn't manage to get the leg raises done last night.
Felt that twinge when I got home from the office so decided to not set myself back another week by pulling the muscle and see how I am tonight.
Will look at starting the core exercises slowly this week and go from there.
Slowly slowly catchy monkey as they say. Or maybe that should be catchy 6 Pack.0 -
I'm in. As you can see in my sig, my Christmas goal is to hit a healthy BMI (5lbs to go) and a healthy waist size (32").
I'm recovering from illness and injury and building back up to training for a spring Marathon. For the next month I'm taking it relatively easy with 2 x running, 2 x weight training and 1 x swimming/water running a week.0 -
My waist is 27" but still have nearly-18-y-o baby belly that's gotta go!
Sue x 0 -
Thin by Xmas!0
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I'm adding 5 more crunches to my total each time i do them (bicycle crunches),currently at 95. Will keep doing this until dec 24th !!!0
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TMM - (Treadmillmaniac) that's awesome - I did 16 sets of 2 of them last night and made a big hoo ha about it at the time as well! 95 in one go though - I bow to your core strength!0
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I used the randomabs.com website last night for a set of exercises - they hit the spot and if you don't have your own ab programme sorted, use this - the advice is work your abs every other day - but make sure your form is good (better to do 5 of something really well than 12 poorly).
This site looks very interesting. I'm going to start incorporating it into my core work starting today.0 -
Please count me in. I really want that six pack. Right now, I am doing a combination of 250 crunches, planks, kettle bell core exercises, oblique work, as well as 250 reps on the ab coaster 3 times a week and my abs are still hiding. What am I doing wrong? Maybe it's my diet. I am currently working on following the protein, fast carb, slow carb meal that someone mentioned on this post.0
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P90x recovery week finally over! Back to Ab Ripper tonight along with some other solid resistance work!
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I'll try randomabs.com tonight. I keep trying to find something besides Ab Ripper X that leaves me feeling the burn in my abs, but that ridiculously hard workout is so far the only one that makes 15 min of abs worthwhile (in the way it feels, I know something is better than nothing but still)0
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great suggestion on the randomabs site!
thanks, i added their twitter feed to go straight to my phone as a reminder and so i will have the workout reminder when i get to the gym or when i need it.
seems to be a lot of conflicting advice on every day vs every other day so i am not sure which is correct
regardless, i am training pretty hard for a marathon and i dont want the abs to be too sore and possibly slow me down during one of my 3 core hard runs each week, so that will dictate that i dont want to do abs the day before one of my 3 runs.
i have read in a couple of places that after cardo is the best time to do abs so here is my plan, feedback is always welcome
mon - rowing, abs and yoga morning
tues - yoga morning track/interval run workout evening
wed - bike morning, easy recovery run evening
thurs - tempo run and abs morning
fri - rowing and pilates morning
sat - long run and abs morning
sun - surfing
the toughest thing to stick to will be the abs after the long run saturday, i am so done at that point, it is hard to motivate to do anything when i finish that run.0 -
Gavini - the chaps who run the randomabs.com website advise that you do not exercise the same muscle groups every day because of muscle repair time etc., However, as with everything else in life, you have to find what is right and what works for you and I have to say, that list is impressive!0
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Did my first New Rules of Lifting for Women workout last night. I though two sets of 15 reps of 5 exercises would be easy compared to my usual cardio, but oooh no, I was dripping sweat by the end. The prone jackknife on a ball used all my core muscles - it feels like I'm wearing a corset this morning!0
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Oooh that sounds like a good one BerryH - I am going to pinch it and incorporate it into tonights efforts.0
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I am in! I have some ab specific workouts!0
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Man, I'm so close to that 6 pack I can smell it!!
Reckon they'll start to show through properly next week and then it's just a race to chisel them out as much as possible by Xmas.
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Whoop Jay - that's fantastic! I'm really pleased for you - and a little bit jealous!0
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It's been a hectic couple of weeks. Just bad luck with injuries, sickness etc!! Glad the weight is staying stable but today I will start getting back into it. Boxing tonight, tomorrow and Sunday. Makes a big difference to my upper body. Amazing cardio workout!! Unfortunately I can't run for a month or so (hip injury argh)...but hoping to get back to that too. I can feel the abs...and I hope they come around by Christmas! 0
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Well, no matter what lighting or position or amount of sucking in I do, they are still hiding!
Lost an inch from my waist though!! Yeeeeeeehaaa! That is a result that I have been working on for months and months!0 -
<< New picture added with my progress so far.0
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So far this is the only challenge I have been able to do everyday. Hope the work pays off. 0
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Well I am getting back on it slowly.
Had a good week for food although this morning I had a cheeky Sausage and Bacon baguette. (Company pays for them on Friday morning so that don't count does it? lol)
Managed 20 minutes on exercise bike and 20 minutes to swim 10 laps (250 meters) last night.
Stomuch is killing today. But feels more like hunger pangs/cramps so hoping it is just the swimming and I am not sickening for something as the wife was unwell last night.
Grrr.
Slowly coming along though.
Measured the waist,chest and hip last night.
Waist 38, Hip 38, Chest 39.5.
So a long way to go but hoping to have those figures changed by christmas and to be well on my way to the 6-pack.0 -
What a difference a week makes! Last week I was sore, and truly had some terrible workouts, but this week I have been hard at it. I know it will be a while before I see the fruits of my labor, but as I always say "you control the effort, not the results" -- This week I have put in the effort, and I am pledging to do the same thing every week from here on out!
Get your burn on, and for any football fans, ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!
P.S- This is my "before" picture... Can't wait to post my AFTER!0 -
Just added my before picture which is now my profile pic.
I can see where I need to put the work in and am very optimistic for reaching my goal by Christmas.
If I can be good for that long......0 -
Jason--I was expecting a much better football game from LSU v Bama! Arkansas v South Carolina and OSU v KS State have both been more excited. (Right now it's 6-3 Bama as I'm typing this)
I did my first 10K today and it was great. I'm already so sore on my legs though, so tomorrow workout will be a little upper body strength but mainly abs so that my body can recover from the run.
Only a few pieces of Halloween candy left in the house which will help a lot since all the crunches in the world won't show abs that are covered by Kit Kats and Hershey's :mad:0 -
Still going at it.
Today I got in 50 front crunches (weighted) and 25 weighted crunches on each side. I also walked 2 miles with 4 pounds of weights.
It isnt much, but it's something. Hopefully enough for my fiance to notice.0 -
Fresh week, revitalised motivation. Who is struggling and needs a kick up the bum?0
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