Remember a six pack isn't really a foundation for core it's the unlerlyint abdominals and your transverse abdominals ie the underlying abs that are core found ration along with the back and obliques
this is all really helpful
but is there any certain time frames i should be training in? would i be able to train (eg core stability) everyday and still improve? or should i do every 2nd day or 3rd etc, i have heard that the body needs to rest so that its not repairing its self when you start training again. could someone also explain the differences between core strength and core stability?
thanks everyone!
Your training load will be different to everyone.
The general rule is don't work out the same muscle two days In a row or if you are overly sore or fatigued.
It will depend on how your body reacts though.
For instants I am a ectomorph and very stereotypically of a hardgainner so for me doing 1full body workout a week ona split routine is all I need and at Most I would do two otherwise I will over train. In addition to this just to maintain my body weigt (which is low) I need to eat around 3000cal a day. On a full training routine I need To eat around 4500-5000 calories a day. Other body types can eat 2000 a day and still be able to gain weight and thier training calories might only be 3000cal. Diet is massive.
Other guys can get away with Doing 3 or 4fullbody workouts a week.
In terms of core all compound exercises will work your core so you can Ben get away with doing one core a week. Make sure if you do start Doing core work or weighted work the most important thin is to use correct form and by correct I mean 100%. Many people actually start training with no weight at first to get the form down right. Correct form reduces and limits the chance of injury it also ensures you are building correctly and not doing harm to the body. Correct form also gives more gains.
Make sure you have a good diet, training is 70-80%diet
When you work out we push the muscle to grow and accommodate/compensate for higher loads. Food and diet is the building blocks for these changes.
You can't build if your body has nothing to build with.
You don't make gains when you work out you make gains when you recover.
Training is stressing the body and in some cases breaking it down, during recovery is when he body compensates and gets Stronger and rebuilds itself. So not only do you need a good diet you need to eat a good diet all the time not just training days.
This leads me into the importance of recovery as recovery is where gains are made you need to make sure you are recovered before jumping back into another workout otherwise you wont be giving time to gain.
This is one way over training occurs when the body doesn't have time to recovery you just end up going down and down into a hole when the body.
Eg you work out 100% then recovery 80% then workout 100% again you are now 120% fatigued as you can see without recovery you get worse this is how people overtrain and get worse.
Now that is a very basic example.
There are things like supper compensation where you workout to the limits of over training and then take a bigger time period off. You get a super compensation. This does allow for more training then a bigger rest period for recovery. But it is very close and difficult to do this without over training. So for most it is best to work and recovery properly than repeat.
Keep workouts to 45min or less and eat clean healthy foods. Try have some good carbs and protien and some good fats yes GOOD fats. At each meal. As you are young just try eat healthy. Now it is hard for a young person but instead of eating 3 bigger meals try to eat 6 smaller meals. So whatever you eat try to divide it up more evenly over the day.
This will keep your body in a anobolic state (building state).
So meal timing should be considered to research too.
I would also consider split workouts so don't work every body part in one day instead work upper body one then lower the next. You want to balance your workouts so do some good research onto how to construct a training routine. Eg you ussually work muscles opposite of each other on the same day.
Also stretch.
Hopefully that helps some more.
DISCLAIMER: again this is just my personal opinion and I am not qualified in this area so any information you do take is at your own risk and on your own decision.