About Abs

I wanted to talk about abs today. I feel that everyone has a different view on how to get the best abs. Some say just do a thousand crunches and you will be good. Well nobody I know can sit there and just keep pumping out crunches. Even if they could, crunches do not work all of your abs. So the question is who do you listen to?
For me, I just try to vary all the ab workouts you can do. I do not really listen to all those advertisements or even think about buying a machine to have at home. I feel for you abs, anything you can do with your own body weight is sufficient. The most important thing that I could tell you in this whole blog is to breath while you are working your abs. Most people forget to breath when crunching their abs. They start to feel the burn and that is all they think about. Therefore they stop breathing. DO NOT STOP BREATHING!! Another thing to focus on is controlling the movements. For example, if you are doing sit-ups, you should not be rocking back and forth, control the movement up and have a slow controlled movement down. At times, the downward movement also referred to sometimes as negatives can be more effective than the upward. Therefore, it is sometimes easier when starting out to use a friend to hold your feet or use a machine you can stick your legs in if you are at the gym.
One last thing to note is that your abs are also muscles. Therefore, they need rest also. As a result, you should not be doing abs everyday if you want to get them to pop. They need time to grow and rebuild just as you other muscles do.