ABS!

[jrelder]

So I've been doing crunches lately to get my stomach in shape, ive always been a rather skinny kid from playing soccer, but after entering school, packed on a little bit of flab. Ive been working out heavily for about 7 months now and I have recently been working my abs, about 300 crunches a night. IT didnt take long to reshape and sculpt my ab muscles (i can feel their definition) but I am having trouble getting rid of the little bit of flab covering over the muscle!

Should I run to get rid of this flab?

Will running hamper the gains in my other muscles (ie. cause me to lose muscle weight in other areas)

any suggestions?

ps. I notice the lowest two muscles of my "six pack" region are having most trouble sculpting and shaping, any reason?

[mountn21]

Maybe more important than cardio, would be your diet. Making sure you have a good ratio of your Macro nutrients (Protein, Carbs, Fat). I prefer 40% Protein/30% Carbs/30% Fat. The %'s are of your total daily caloric intake. Also important is making sure you are expending more calories per day than you are consuming = loss of body weight (hopefully fat). I could go much further, but hopefully this helps.

[mountn21]

If you are concerned with losing muscle weight in other areas, then you should also include some weight training into your schedule.