Quote from: Cal427eb on Apr 30, 2013, 11:03:46 AM
But I have to do that many reps though to feel any burn at all. And I just started doing some basic weightlifting with these adjustable dumbbells.
Doing too many reps is a classic mistake - in particular for abs. If you're doing the exercises right you typically hover around 8-15 reps (1-3 sets) with 3 different exercises. You train your abs like you would any other muscle. The point isn't to feel the burn, the point is muscles fall into rep ranges and those rep ranges make muscle respond in certain ways. If you're doing 125 reps on crunches it's literally doing nothing for the muscle in a positive way after a certain point. You'll just be doing empty reps when you could be doing something constructive.
Trust me, this is in part what I do for a living and have been training several years now. If not, which I would suggest anyway for better understanding, read up on it. You're not going to come across an ab routine that suggest 125 reps. As for the weightlifting, well, all I can suggest (again) is look up the 5x5 program. I can't herald it enough for beginners.
