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The one thing that kind of strikes me, 100 crunches 5 days a week ...
I'm not a fan of crunches to begin with, honestly, and that's A LOT. Like any muscle, they only need to be worked once or twice a week, but properly. If you can do 50 reps of anything, you ain't working that muscle, but you may be thickening that area (particularly if you want a bikini bod, you want to avoid overworking the abs).
If you added one SERIOUS compound move, like a full squat or deadlifts, you'd be working the hell out of your core, trust me. Abs are 95% kitchen built, anyway, diet. Ever watch Survivor? By nearly the end of the season just about everyone who starts at a near normal body weight has a six pack.
I think you could do less and get better results if you added in big compound moves and dumped some of that isolation stuff, you won't get big and you might be surprised at the progress you get (particularly if you've been doing the same routine for six years, maybe it's time to think change-up?) Activating the CNS extends throughout the entire body.
Actually ... considering your level of intensity and the length of time you've been working out, there's a real part of me that thinks the routine that this gentleman wanted to put his wife on, or the alternate routine suggested by RW, might be something you want to think about playing with.
http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/w...ilding-training/5-day-split-wifey-708831.html
I've discovered something for myself ... sometimes with weight training, less is more. You can work one muscle group once every seven days, and if you do it right, the results can be surprising.
I'm not a fan of crunches to begin with, honestly, and that's A LOT. Like any muscle, they only need to be worked once or twice a week, but properly. If you can do 50 reps of anything, you ain't working that muscle, but you may be thickening that area (particularly if you want a bikini bod, you want to avoid overworking the abs).
If you added one SERIOUS compound move, like a full squat or deadlifts, you'd be working the hell out of your core, trust me. Abs are 95% kitchen built, anyway, diet. Ever watch Survivor? By nearly the end of the season just about everyone who starts at a near normal body weight has a six pack.
I think you could do less and get better results if you added in big compound moves and dumped some of that isolation stuff, you won't get big and you might be surprised at the progress you get (particularly if you've been doing the same routine for six years, maybe it's time to think change-up?) Activating the CNS extends throughout the entire body.
Actually ... considering your level of intensity and the length of time you've been working out, there's a real part of me that thinks the routine that this gentleman wanted to put his wife on, or the alternate routine suggested by RW, might be something you want to think about playing with.
http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/w...ilding-training/5-day-split-wifey-708831.html
I've discovered something for myself ... sometimes with weight training, less is more. You can work one muscle group once every seven days, and if you do it right, the results can be surprising.
