Throughout this Abs Tips Article, remember the abs are a very unique muscle in the body. Abs are a fast re-oxidizing muscle group. They can recover quicker then other muscle groups in the body. Your rest period may be around 30 seconds rather then 60 to 90 seconds compared to other slower muscle groups.

Another special feature about the abs is they can be trained everyday because they are a fast re-oxidizing muscle group.

Abs Tips And Your Training

Abs should be trained with high reps for each set. About 15 to 20 reps per set for each different ab exercise you perform. Of course, the number of sets and number of different exercises you perform each day will depend on how long you have been training your abs.

Here are 4 major abs tips to help get your abdominal muscles ripped and shredded by varying each of the following…

• exercises
• volume
• difficulty
• days

Exercises And Confusion

If you’ve read some of my other articles, you know that I was going to include Exercise Confusion in my Abs Tips. So, you should always perform different exercises to keep your abs confused from week to week. This will spark more muscle growth and help define your abdominal region more.

Volume

The volume can be changed as well to give your abdominal muscles more of a variety and make them adapt more to that change. This adaption will allow your muscles not to get comfortable in one set routine and force the abs to work in different intensities.

Difficulty

Changing the difficulty of the exercises will have a direct effect on muscle growth as well. Some days you may find yourself with less energy and want to go with a lighter ab routine. While other days you might have an abundance of energy and go all out with all the hardest ab routines. This mix and match system will give your abs a constant change of tempo and keep them growing from the new angles and stresses they will under go.

Change The Days

The final way is to change the days. One week, you might go for a six days straight ab workouts. And the next week, you might go every other day. Giving your abs rest can actually help them to grow. Just because they are a fast recovery muscle doesn’t mean you should push them every day. Every muscle needs a certain amount of time to fully heal and the abs are no exception.

Two Additional Abs Tips, The 1st is Breathing

You may be surprised to find that I list Breathing within my abs tips. Breathing plays a big role in getting more out of every rep you do for your abdominal exercises.

Breathing out every time you contract your abs will help you flex your abs and focus more on muscle contraction.

Breathing in slowly after muscle contraction will give you more body control and help you keep the right tempo for your return rep.

Your abdominal reps should be around four seconds each. One second on the contraction and three seconds on the slow controlled return.

Nutrition

The last of my abs tips is Nutrition. You can have all the ab muscles in the world, but if you have a thick layer of fat hiding your abs then you are defeating the whole purpose.

When you want to show off those abs, you need to train your body with high intensity interval training and put your body in a caloric deficit. This way you will burn fat throughout your entire body and eventually see the six pack you have under that layer of fat.

Henry Chervenka