Taking breaks between abdominal exercise sets allows you to focus on form. Doing smaller quantities of situps or crunches with proper form yields better results than doing a lot of tired ones. When you do too much in one set, your muscles fatigue, you cheat by using your arms and straining your neck, and you defeat the purpose of doing the exercises. Incorporate a variety of breaks into ab routines for an effective workout program.
Step 1
Do a set of 20 to 30 ab exercises in any one set. The exercise might be situps, crunches, bicycles or reverse crunches.
Step 2
Give yourself a 30- to 60-second break in between sets to catch your breath and allow your muscles to recuperate. This maximizes stress on muscles while allowing them to recover based on an equal amount of time it took to complete the set. If it took 30 seconds to complete the set, rest for 30 seconds.
Step 3
Incorporate abdominal exercises in between other exercises in the gym. Perform a set of ab exercises in between pushups, bench presses, bicep curls or any other exercise on your workout routine for the day.
Step 4
Do three sets with rest or between other exercises not focusing on abs at each workout session.
Tips and Warnings
- Breathe throughout your ab set, taking a breath in when coming up and out when going back down to the floor. Do each exercise slowly for maximum results.
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