The idea behind this training system is to blast each of these areas on a separate day, giving the other parts of your midsection a little recuperation time. C concentrates on the sides, the obliques and intercostals. The three categories, aka A, B and C, each focus on a different section of your midsection. Just keep cycling through the three categories, regardless of which of the two workouts in each you decide to use.

However many days you decide to train your abs though, you should alternate between A, B and C categories in sequence. If you can't stomach the idea of working your midsection that often though, 3-to-4 days will suffice. You don't have to train your abs every single day, but six times per week wouldn't hurt. One hundred twenty-one, one hundred twenty-two, one hundred twenty. Since few have the patience to spend 20-to-30 minutes at a time on abs, a more reasonable option is to train them for shorter periods at more frequent intervals. I've found that you can do long workouts, or you can do frequent workouts, but you can't do long workouts frequently. The truth is, ab training doesn't have to be all that repetitive, and it doesn't have to be that long or even too boring. No doubt you're already envisioning six days per week performing hundreds of reps of crunches and leg raises. That sounds like a lot of training a lot of long, tedious, boring training, doesn't it? Ideally then, you'll want to hit your ab muscles no fewer than three times and as many as six times per week. They just recuperate faster than your biceps or quads can. The abdominal muscles are notoriously dense, and like forearms and calves, can withstand regular punishment. One of the 'secrets' to getting great abs is frequency. If 'this sucks, this sucks, jesus, this sucks,' is what goes through your head during an ab workout, then you came to the right place.

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