Overtraining-Abs

Over Training Your Abs

Let's talk about over training the abs:

This CORE challenge is mainly a toning style of exercise consisting of lower intensity exercises (using no weights, low difficulty exercises) with a higher number of repetitions and reaching your threshold takes a bit longer.

Because these exercises are less intense it will not rip the muscle fibers as often or as much as a higher intensity abdominal exercise, which means you can do this style of exercise more often with less of a chance of becoming too sore to exercise or bringing about repetitive stress syndrome.

When it comes down to it, your abdominal and core muscles are just like any other muscle group in your body and should be trained accordingly. The only difference is that abdominal muscles are particularly strong and can take a fair amount of punishment before they need to rest and heal, and they heal slightly faster than most other muscles.

The main key to remember about how often to do abs workouts is that if it is too sore, let it heal before you train it again, and even if it never gets sore give those muscles at least one day of rest a week.

As the reps get higher each day, be wise when executing. Don't have a mindset of let's hurry and get these done, take your time and split up into sets if needed. For exampleiif today is 45 slow bicycles. Do 22, rest for about 10-20 seconds, then do 23 more. You might end up using poor form and letting your back kick in if you attempt to do these large reps all at once. Some of you can easily do that, some of you will need to break it up.

Just be sure to keep your rest very short in between sets to keep the burn going, keep the count SLOW, keep your technique throughout.