Doing endless crunches can actually be a bad idea if you have hunched shoulders because they just reinforce that posture.
On the other hand, when it comes to sculpting the abs of your dreams, it's not as simple as
doing endless crunches.
I used to
do endless crunches and eat terribly and expect to wake up with a six pack.
Not exact matches
If a slim waist has been your dream for long but you don't feel like it's possible to achieve because it seems like too much work (and let's be honest, you're more on the lazy side), don't worry, you just haven't found the right workout yet — you've probably been reading too much of those articles that praise the fat loss benefits of long, slow cardio sessions or the magical powers of
endless series of
crunches, and you don't really think you've got the nerves for that.
If your primary goal is to lose fat and build a strong midsection, but you are tired of
doing endless reps of
crunches and sit - ups, we have the perfect new solution for you.
Most traditional fat loss programs will recommend hundreds of
crunches and
endless hours of cardio, and often don't even introduce strength training.
In it, they tell terrible tales of bank accounts being drained — «There was one point where I had emergency gallbladder surgery that put me in the hole $ 50k due to the fact that I couldn't afford health insurance,» McMillen writes — to an
endless, vicious cycle of bugs, testing and development
crunch hell — «We were basically developing features during bug checking, which meant every single time I turned on the computer and checked the bug database, the work I
did the night before was pretty much rendered irrelevant.
They
did poke a little fun at the rumor though: «For Timesplitters 4, with ever spiralling development costs, massive teams and
endless crunch we decided on a more radical development strategy.