Don’t forget to put on an ice pack if your face is a little puffy.
Something I forgot to mention is that you’ll eventually want to diversify your ab work outs. Sit-ups are sort of bogus (unless you’ve got a decline bench to knock them out on) - they stress the uppermost fibers of the rectus abdominus without recruiting much of the rest of the girdle. Overdoing it (thousands) can start a kyphotic curve at that thoraco-lumbar junction, the 8 pack starts to tilt the ribcage down toward the pelvis.
Rather than shoot for hundreds of sit-ups, add in things like cross-crunches, Russian twists, torture twists, leg lifts, etc. to stress the obliques and the lower rectus bellies.
If you can manage the work load and recovery, there’s nothing wrong with wrapping up your gym sessions with weighted ab training.
Something I forgot to mention is that you’ll eventually want to diversify your ab work outs. Sit-ups are sort of bogus (unless you’ve got a decline bench to knock them out on) - they stress the uppermost fibers of the rectus abdominus without recruiting much of the rest of the girdle. Overdoing it (thousands) can start a kyphotic curve at that thoraco-lumbar junction, the 8 pack starts to tilt the ribcage down toward the pelvis.
Rather than shoot for hundreds of sit-ups, add in things like cross-crunches, Russian twists, torture twists, leg lifts, etc. to stress the obliques and the lower rectus bellies.
If you can manage the work load and recovery, there’s nothing wrong with wrapping up your gym sessions with weighted ab training.