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"How to get a sixpack in two weeks"

I need help! I been doing boxing for 5 months so that my body is well tone for the summer, but It never work. Why?

First off, you can't get a six-pack if you've got more than 10% bodyfat. Ten percent is a lot less than you think. First thing you have to do is lose weight. Eat healthy, eat less, and do lots of exercise.

As for ab exercises in particular, a good general rule is that the more it hurts the more it'll build up your muscle. If you can do 50 of something without breaking sweat you're wasting your time. Either your technique is wrong or the exercise is way too easy.

Don't bother exercising your abs more often than every other day. when you exercise, you break down/damage muscle tissue. It is during the rest days that your muscles build up. One day on then on day off seems very effective for most people.

I recommend getting one of those swiss balls. You can do sit-up's, jacknifes and all sorts on those.

As for the timescale, you do not have a hope in hell of getting a six-pack in two weeks. Two months perhaps, if you *really* stay dedicated.

For more info, go take EB's advice and read Men's Health. It's full of useful info.

It's hard ain't it, back pain

MoJoJoJo wrote:
> I also do the
> "designer sit ups" Mel Gibson does. Oh yes.

tell me more... :-P

I play football regularly, drink regularly, and eat regularly, and I have a six-pack. Boxing is a great way to get your fitness up though, so don't stop doing that. Maybe playing football could help you, what with the excessive amount of running, turning, etc etc.

"I haven't done a sit-up since I was about 13. I just do crunches, reverse crunches, leg thrusts and leg raises. Incline and decline.

I do sets of 10 for about 4 sets."

I use sit up as a generic term for all of the above. I do what we used to do at boxing, crunches and all that. I also do the "designer sit ups" Mel Gibson does. Oh yes.

thats not fat

Teh best way, it seems, is to basically starve yourself till you've only got a little fat left (Tehy say it's unhealthy, but at least you've got some fat to provide energy).
Don't exercise yet.
Once you have jsut a little fat left on the front, start eating healthily, and working out, and that fat will turn to muscle, and you'll be a lean mean clean green fighting machine.

Get a slendertone flex max, those things are awesome.

Still takes longer than 2 weeks right enough.

Supersaiyan wrote:
> Umpalumpa wrote:
> but ur also 2 foot tall!
> 5ft9 acually

Fatty.
I'm 5ft11 and 9½ stone.

My six pack just appeared one morning.
I was all, hmm, where'd this come from?