How long will it take to have toned abs if I do 30 mins. abs pilates every day?!
Question: I am 13 years old, 5' 2", and around 93-95 lbs. I am perfectly fine with my weight, but am trying to get toned abs before the beginning of summer. I have some flab and fat around my stomach but I eat healthy and have been doing 30 minutes of pilates abs workouts every day for about a week straight, and was doing core workouts for about a month before. About how long will it take until I notice results?
Answers: I am 13 years old, 5' 2", and around 93-95 lbs. I am perfectly fine with my weight, but am trying to get toned abs before the beginning of summer. I have some flab and fat around my stomach but I eat healthy and have been doing 30 minutes of pilates abs workouts every day for about a week straight, and was doing core workouts for about a month before. About how long will it take until I notice results?
Variety of exercise is the key I have found. For example..an exercise called Mountain Climbers. Its from a workout that also contains a section for females and males which is excellent.
Mountain climbers are done by starting in a pushup position
and then shuffling your feet in and out so that your knees are
moving in under your chest and then back out to starting
position. It sort of resembles climbing a mountain but flat on
the floor. If you want an advanced version, you can also shuffle your hands 8-10 inches forward and backward in
addition to the leg movements. This really makes it a full
body exercise and MUCH more difficult than standard mountain climbers.
After finishing each exercise, rest about 30 seconds before
starting the next exercise. Rest about 1-2 minutes after
completing each "tri-set" before repeating.
This will give you one of the best ab workouts you've ever had
without even doing any direct ab exercises. You'll see what I
mean after you try it!
Once you get away from the myth that a 1000 crunches and 500 situps a day is all you need to do for great abs, then amazing results can be seen.
There is a completely free 65 page ebook about exercise, nutrition, abs and stomaches in particular at http://www.projext.co.uk that you can download (no catch!) and it is excellent.
It helped me greatly.