I am no ab freak. I don’t have a raging 6 pack and I hate working them out after a workout. However, I do understand the importance of having a strong core. It is healthy for you to have strong abs, obliques, and lower back. Also, having a strong core overall increases your lifting potential in every other workout.
The key to ab workouts is variation. Change your workout everyday so your muscles cannot develop muscle memory to the workout and stop improving. Be sure to use equal amounts of upper and lower ab workouts along with obliques and lower back. Also, use heavy lifts that require you to stand up while holding the weight. Squats, deadlift, cleans, and shrugs are all examples of workouts that seriously engage your core. Almost every workout requires your abs even just a little bit but that shows how important your abs are.
Also, doing 50 crunches is not going to give you abs. Abs are just like every other muscle in that you wouldn’t do 50 curls or 50 bench press reps. You should stick to 15-20 reps and use exercises that are more difficult than the standard sit up. I’m not here to give you a workout plan but just some basic ideas. Just change up your workout plan by throwing some of these ideas in there.
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