Ab exercises are pointless????

by Melissa
(Dallas)

Wow this makes you sound like a fantastic moron. Youre right CORE exercise may not burn fat and give you a "six-pack" but they are highly necessary for strengthening your core... you know that thing that HOLDS UP YOUR SPINE. And with an overwhelming amount of adults that complain about lower back pain (80% to be exact) that is largely contributed to the fact that they have a weak core/abdominals, one would think you would post such ignorant comments like:

11. Abs
The abs are a muscle group that doesn't need very much specific work at all unless you have a weakness. You only know if you have a weakness in your abs when your body fat % is low enough.
*** you will only know when BF% is low enough????? Dumbest thing i've heard in a while. Lower back pain or lordosis are both pretty good indicators****


Most people have very nice abs under the layers of body fat. When your body fat is low enough to see your abs, then you'll see that six pack... But ab exercises are pretty useless for getting a six pack.

Ab exercises do not burn fat around the abs... that's a myth. So I don't even bother with ading ab exercises to many of my weight training programs. They are a waste of time.

**yes, it obviously is a waste of time to strengthen your core which helps your entire posture. Who would want to waste time doing that? Just in case you didn't quite catch the tone in my typing.. that was sarcasm. ***