Keep training them while you diet down, nothing more dissapointing than getting your bodyfat low and realising your abs suck. Abs starting to show is a nice reward as you get deep into a diet.
in regards to actually training them, i give abs their own 1 hour session like i would chest or back, i pick 4 or 5 exersizes, and use relatively high volume in the 12-15 rep range as a generality.[/quote]
The appearance of a lifters abs are genetically determined. Once a minimum standard is met training has little; if any effect on appearance.
Everyone should do some ab training.
If you have done the big 5 for a while then you have abs under the tire.
Training abs everyday ? Waste of time IMO. At my first competition I had the best set of abs on the stage and you know what ? I had not train them for the last 3-4 years, I just did them about 2 months before the competition and anyone knows (or should know) that we do not put muscle on while dieting, just maintain what you have.
In this same competition I had one other competitor that came to me asking me what I was doing for abs, cause mine were much better then him (he had decent mid section) and he said he was doing 1000reps per day, everyday, when I told him I was not training them except for the 2 last month, he could not believe it, so much effort for so little results, while I did the contrary.
Great looking abs, like big calves are primary a question of genetics, everyone would like to have Zane’s midsection, but it’s mostly genetics. If you remove the fat you’ll see what’s yours.
I’ve taken the concept of complexes and ramped it up. Instead of training only two points on the force-velocity curve, I train around five points, which is why I call them star complexes.
Each complex will use five exercises of the same movement pattern. The five exercises will be performed back to back, starting with a heavy/slow movement as the first exercise. Each subsequent exercise will be lighter in resistance than the previous exercise, allowing for progressively faster rep speeds.[/quote]