Swollen Abs

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Anyone get a dissented stomach from working out their abs? Or over-working them?

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Has never happened to me

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I heard many years ago that you can't overwork them, so I've just always incorporated my abs into every workout (5 - 6 times a week)...and train them pretty intensely. I'm wondering if I'm getting some weird adverse effect by doing so.

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I hate to be that guy...but this really just seems like a waste of time. I never train abs and when I get lean enough, they are always there and look nice. Why not dial it back for a week or two to see of things settle down. I really dont see how training abs could lead to stomach issues though, unless what you are doing is somehow actually manually distressing your organs.

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working out their abs

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This reminds me of when I was a naive teenager and reading all the muscle magazines like Flex etc.
Nassar El Sonbaty was training at the gym I was a member of when he was in town for something and when he was done training I got the courage to go up to him and ask him a few questions. One of them was about when or how often does he train abs. He looked like he was about to burst out laughing in my face and said "kid, no professional bodybuilder trains abs unless it is for a bullshite photo shoot for a magazine we do it through diet and supplements" (and by supplements he wasn't talking about creatine or protein) I felt like an idiot

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I heard many years ago that you can't overwork them

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Ask someone who got rhabdo from GHD situps, and they'll disagree.