Knowing the myths for your six pack
Personel Grooming February 5th, 2009
It appears like not all the things that we heard from “experts” or overheard in the public areas are true. Maybe the reason why we’re not getting those perfect abs are because we’re not doing it right. Then that would be such a terrible waste of our time. So we need to know the myths and what is real to get the chiseled abs we want.
Six pack Myth 1: Abdominal muscle is different from regular muscle.
Muscle is muscle. Abdominal muscle is the same with our biceps and lats. The only difference is the location. Abdominal muscles are not resting on a bony surface, instead it’s against the stomach and intestines. There’s no significant difference whatsoever.
Six pack Myth 2: Strong abs means a strong back.
The key to a strong back is a balanced abdominal muscles. You can work your abs, but no more and no less than you work your other muscles throughout the day. There are heavy emphasis on working your abs, this heavy emphasis is often misunderstood to be the contributor of food health. Infomercials give the false belief that by working out just one part of your body will give your health great benefits.
Six Pack Myth 3: you’ve to train your abs at least every other day.
They say that you need to train your abs hard enough twice a week, that’s to give them time for recovery. The key is to choose exercises that fatigue your abs, so that they actually need recovery time. Include exercises that use the abs functionality. Since abs are used to stabilize the body, holding a push up position without letting your body sag will really feel and develop your abdominal muscles.
Six Pack Myth 4: To gain results, high repetitions are required.
If you aim abdominal endurance, the more crunches you do each time, the more you can do later on. It doesn’t strengthen the abs very much but it also eats up most of your time.
Six Pack Myth 5: Hard rock abs can be attained by doing many sit-ups.
Several doctors say that sit-ups and crunches are the work exercises and perhaps should never be done. A common mistake done during crunches, is throwing the neck out. Crunches and sit-ups cause the abdominal muscles to be pulled to tight, this excessive pulling put stress on the neck or what is known as throwing the neck out. The overuse of crunch type exercises might even lead to the reduction of thoracic extension and contributes to bad posture.