i have been running a mile every day and doing 100-200 crunches a day how long will it take to see results?
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In two months you will see the results. But it also depends on your eating habits. Try not to eat after 8 pm and try to run two miles or more. It doesnot matter if you do 1000 crunch because crunch strengthens your stomach muscles only. The important thing is to melt the fatness around your stomach and you can do this with running. Be patient good luck
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If you plan on doing 100 sit ups or crunches after a while it won't help.  100 will be good enough until your abs grow in strength to handle that.  Muhammad Ali said he would do sit ups until it started to burn then he would count out a hundred.  Also variations will help out as well like reverse crunch, decline crunches and any other variations.  For your abs to show definition all depends on your diet.  You can't just eat anything and work out abs and hope for definition you have to eat right to get that six pack.  If you don't eat right you will have some definition.
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The only way is to lower your body fat. You can do 1000 crunches a day, and that will not help if you still have the fat there. Generally, get your body fat into the single digits.
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Try doing 150 situps and 10 crunches a day. Also run 1/2 to one mile a day. I did this and have lost 10 pounds in a couple months and my stomach looks flatter.
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It seems you still have a lot to learn.  I am not being insulting.  There is a lot to know about working-out, deit including.\n\nThe short answer is you will start to see a difference in your own body whithin a week or two.  It can take about 2 to 3 months for others to notice.\n\nThink about working out differently.  Working-out is a way of life.  After about two weeks to one month, you will become comfortabel working out.  Be sure to do the exercise correctly, do not start with too much weight.  Just consentrate on doing the exercise right.  You will gain more stregnth faster this way.  If you do too much weight at the beginning, it will take you longer to get stronger, and you will see less progress.  Do not skip work-outs.  Be sure you streach before and after work-outs; this is important for proper muscle development.  Most people skip the streaching part of the work out, and they do not get the results or they hurt themselves.\n\nThere are several must do's in working out.\n 1.  No longer than 30 minutes after a work-out, drink a protine drink.  You do not have to do a meal replacement proting drink, they are much more expensive.\n  2.  Cycle your protine drinks and other supplements; 2 months on, one month off.\n  3.  Intensity of your work out will determin how fast you grow.  Caffine can help, but in the long run it hurts you.  You can get better results not to take energy drinks.  Take a Carbohydrate drink 30 minutes before the work-out, slowly warm up, then do your work-out.  This works.\n  4.  Aerobics every day of the week will help you with weight and your cut.\n  5.  When you cut, you do less weight and high reps.  This cuts your muscles.  When you are ready for this step, you should have read enough about working-out to know exactly what to do.\n  6.  Do not talk to anybody during your work-out except you're work-out partner.  Talking waists time.  Get out there, do the job, get it over with, then talk if you want.  This is a selfish sport.  In this sport, you are the only one that matters.\n\nWorking out has many different phases.  First your body has to get used to lifting wieghts.  Then comes the building phase.  Finally, comes the cut phase if you want it.\n\nYou need to read a lot about working out and dieting.  Sorry, there is no getting out of it.  Lifting weights and dieting is different for everybody.  There is no one way around this.  Magizines can help;however, you need to buy a real book and read it.  Stay active in working-out for 6 months and you will like what you see.  Weight-lifting is not for the weak of mind.\n\nYou're age is now working against you.  You are 22, so you're body heals itself quickly.  People I know your age work out 2 times a day on the same muscle group.  That is 2 times a day on a 4 day work-out scheluel.  Monday is a push day, Tuesday is a pull day, Wednes day is an off day.  Repeat on Thursday and Friday; take the weekend off.\n\nPush is excercises that you push\nPull is exercises that you pull.\n\nThere are some small muscles you will need to strengthen before you can go up in weight for some exercises.  You have to read.  You can easily hurt yourself otherwise.  I hurt myself several times.  It took me a year each time to recover.  I read everything I could get my hands on, and now I do everything completely different, and I am the size I want to be.  The picture you see in my profile is 2 years old.\n\nDo not worry about what everybody else is doing.  Take care of yourself and do YOU'RE work-out.  You will catch up soon enough with everybody.\n\nRead, read, read.\n\nTalk to someone that is big and looks like he knows what he is doing.  Show him what I wrot to you.  This person will say that there is also a lot more to working out.
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don't listen to people saying crunches. Crunches strengthen your stomach, but they don't get rid of fat. Think about it. You may have the strongest abs in the world, but if there is a layer of fat covering them, you won't be able to see them. Make sense?\n\nSo, if you are after losing that fat, you should watch your diet. Reduce your calories by about 500 per day, and maintain that diet until you are satisfied with your results. Fat loss is 90% diet, and 10% exercise, so if you feel it's necessary, you can add exercise to your routine (it almost doesn't matter what exercises you're doing).
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Essentially, you should probably change your routine to twenty minutes a day, four times a week.  You need to give your body time to warm up and let your heart rate pick up a bit.  Good for you for doing fifteen min. per day though!  When most people start a new exercise routine in conjunction with a good diet, you should begin to see slight results within three to four weeks.  After that, it will happen like rapid fire if you stick to your routine.  Good luck!
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you should see results anywhere from 4-6 weeks if not sooner based on diet.
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It takes about 6 weeks to get noticably fitter.\n\nYou need to increase the distance you run and decrease the time it takes.\n\nIf you ran three times 1 mile each time this week and each mile took you say 10 min \n\nthen next week on the first run do 2 miles on the second run try and do a mile in 9 min 50 sec and on the third run run 1 and 1/2 miles.\n\nKeep trying to progress in this manner and you will get fitter
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You won't see any changes until the second or third week of your session. Two things you have to keep in mind though. One, you only need to excerise at least 30 minutes a day. Two, your muscles actually grow when they are resting. (Strange isn't?)\nAnd just to add on, try to work another part of the body after one exericse. Since the abs are the hardest part to work on. Work on them the most!
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wouldnt take long at all. its up to you and sticking to a good program. read tips on weight loss and exercise programs to help you on this site
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2400 at one time, because for at least eight of those 24 hours yuo're trying to do situps, you'll be asleep. the time difference doesn't add up. just work out for 2 hours, doing 2400 crunches, taking five minute breaks between segments of 250. that's what works for me. ecept i do 5000 a day. (i work out for about 3 hours)
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I would add some cardio to your regimen if you haven't already and invest in a stability ball and winsor pilates you will see results in no time. I did this and saw results in @ 2 weeks.
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If you diet correctly and are strict no cheating and beat your abs hard either every day or every other day you should reach that goal withing 8 to 12 weeks. Really hit the abs hard though for the muscle and diet to see the muscle.
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This is easy I do not have killer abs yet, try doing 1,000 crunches a day. You will see results fast. I know it sounds hard but, start off with as many as you can do then, add more too it. It will become easy as a piece of cake.\nGood Luck!!!
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You will certainly need more than 10 days to flatten your belly.  Multiply that by about 10 at that may be a more reasonable time range to see modest results.\n\nFirst and foremost, stay away from any ab machine as they are simply a waste of money and barely effective.\n\nFor the upper abs, focus on crunches which effectively work the abdominals better than sit-ups or any machine on the market.\n\nFor the lower abs, keep in mind there is very little muscle tissue there so decreasing levels of body fat is the most effective way to bring out the best in this area. Hanging leg raises, v-situps and reverse curls are among some of the best exercise for this region. Always make sure your pelvis curls up to maximize lower abdominal contraction during these exercises.\n\nAs far as fat loss and getting ripped goes, cardio, cardio, cardio. In the morning, on an empty stomach at about 70-80% of your maximum heart rate for about 30-45 minutes. This combined with a common sense diet will quickly shed body fat so you can actually see those abs you've developed. \n\nI would encourage you to seek the advice and guidance of a personal trainer in your area for further education on these principles. Please ensure you start off at a very basic level for crunches and cardio if you are a beginner.\n\nHere's a list of ab exercises to help you get started:\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/fitness/Strength_Exercises_abdominals.html
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Cardio is the best, and fastest, way to get a six-pack. Doing situp and crunches won't help, cuz all they do is strengthen your abs. If you want your abs to show, though, then you need to get rid of the fat. What I used to do is ride a bike (stationary, or real) one day, run the next day, row (you know, one of those rowing exercise machines?), stair climber, and then do one of the others the next day. Then I would rest the next two days, and start over. Depending on your stamina, you should at least go for 30 mins at whatever pace you can hold; the important thing, however, is to keep your heartrate up above 100. At the time, for me, I would go for a heartrate goal of 170. There exists a chart that gives what heartrate for what goal at what age (ie, at age 20, to burn fat minimum heartrate is 150; to work on cardio minimum heartrate is 165). Something like that; and yes, that was an example; actual numbers vary. Hope that made sense.