Know any hardcore way to do crunches?

[nvictor]

It's the summer again. I need to burn out the fat and get my neat abs back. I do the basic lying-down-on-the-floor-crunches. But I need suggestions.

The way I'm doing it, I don't train my external intercostal muscles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_intercostal_membrane). After each session I see my 6 packs swell up a little bit, but nothing happens under my arms...

I saw on a website that any kind of twisting during the crunches will do, but it doesn't work Do you know of anything hardcore?

 

[Alle_Gory]

Abs are only visible with a low body fat.
If you have a spare tire no amount of 'hardcore' crunches will show your abs... assuming that crunches do something in the first place.

I will suggest you learn how to use an Ergometer machine if you have one at the gym. It will work your abs as well as most of your body.

 

[mintxx]

crunches don't burn fat. drink 1/2 glass of OJ and go for a 5 k run before every breakfast, then crunch-throw a 10kg medicine ball to a partner from a lying roman chair for 10 minutes. that's hardcore.

 

[nvictor]

Well, these are not really the kind of replies I wanted. But thanks anyway. I shouldn't have mentioned fat...

 

[Bible_Belt]

The only thing that has ever made my love-handle area sore from a workout is jiu-jitsu shrimping:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5umBWsf_NA&feature=related

It does require a mat and may not be practical, but it does work your sides very well.

 

[I-tallionStallion]

Nothing showy about this but do Weighted decline situps. Try it with as much weight as you can handle for 2x10-12

 

[mintxx]

i have basically given you the fastest way to defined abs known to man. repent!
#2: hang from overhead bar , feet together, bring your knees up to your left armpit/right/left and do 4 sets of 15.
but don't forget teh medicine ball is l33t and is pwn your azz.

 

[mrRuckus]

Doing crunches with a rope on a pulley is basically a crunch that you can add weight and progress on.

 

[Throttle]

doing crunches underwater without breathing is totally hardcore, even more hardcore than concentration curls and 500-lb. quarter-squats.

if you don't get the answers you want, keep asking, i'm sure you'll eventually find someone to tell you exactly what you want to hear!

 

[mintxx]

if you don't get the answers you want, keep asking, i'm sure you'll eventually find someone to tell you exactly what you want to hear!

i would have said that, but i think he said the 'kind of' answers he was looking for.. presumably he means hardcore ones :box:

 

[ecilop]

good stuff here
http://www.exrx.net/Lists/ExList/WaistWt.html#anchor172895