Poll Voting from Jul 7 to Aug 7, 2010 is over and results are in!

Congratulations to RJ for placing 1st with 44% of the votes, and to AnnaLyn for placing 2nd with 20% votes. Both participants get a Sandugo backpack - hardcore equipment for hardcore outdoorsmen! All participants (including top 2 winners) get a pair of Sandugo Adventure Scandals.

Want to join the next ABS Showdown? Sign-up and we start when we reach 10 participants

	Charlene 2% votes	Marissa 19% votes	2ND PLACE Happy Mendez 20% votes	1ST PLACE RJ 44% votes	Ely 9% votes	Dex >6% votes
A  P R 6
J  U L 6

Proceeds from this showdown benefit "Deeply" (Shianne Tupas). She's a member of the Survivor Philippines dot Commers who suffered a leg injury requiring metal platings on her left leg. The dotcom community has been extremely supportive of us Survivor Castaways during and after the first season of Survivor Philippines. I hope we can support her by way of this showdown...and your donations! Monies collected will be posted on this page (for full transparency). You can check out Deeply's Facebook account for more details. Join the ABS showdown and help Deeply with her leg operation!!! -- TheLoneRider

Monies Collected (so far)

P500

P500

P500

P500

P500

P500

TOTAL: P3000

Rules

• weekly abs pictures should be in by Tuesday noon, however, a grace period of 2 days is given (up to Thursday noon, but picture will be grayed out). Late submission will not be posted.
• dates/days are Philippine time based on this site: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=145
• after 3 'no shows' (either you didn't submit anything or submitted late), you're disqualified and no further posting will be done
• pictures submitted should be around 1000 pixels wide
• abs pictures should be contracted (abs muscles flexed) under (ideally) the same lighting conditions
• showdown ends at exactly 12 p.m. July 6, 2010
• Polling activates between 12:01 a.m. July 7 to 12 p.m. Aug 7, 2010.
• Winners are announced Aug 8. 2010

Poll Voting
Poll voting will be done for the MOST IMPROVED...so it's not about the next guy, but you against your old self.

Prize (because this is a benefit for Deeply, winner will not be reimbursed the registration fee)

• Look in the mirror...that's your prize!
• Sandugo adventure scandals for every participant who makes it until polling date. If you get disqualified along the way, no sandals for you.
• Sandugo backpack for the top 2 winners

I'll be joining the weekly submission (it's my way of keeping fit), but because I'm the moderator, I won't join in the poll voting. I don't really care about "winning"...I just want good abs!.

--- TheLoneRider

Participants:

	Charlene	Marissa	Happy Mendez	RJ	Ely	Dex	TheLoneRider
A P R 6						hasn't joined yet
A P R 13
A P R 20
A P R 27
M A Y 4
M A Y 11
M A Y 18
M A Y 25
J U N 1
J U N 8
J U N 15
J U N 22
J U N 29
J U L 6

ABS Workout videos:

1. THENX
2. Calisthenic Movement
3. Saturno Movement

ABS Benchmarks:

1. Beginner: standards like crunch, leg raise, V-sit, bicycle (when you can do more reps or hold longer, it's time to level up)
   
   

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2. Intermediate: lolasana, L-sit (leveling up)
   
   

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3. Advanced: manna (very few people on the planet can do this)
   
   

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ABS Tips:

• drink lots of water (with pinch of salt and juice of 1 lime) instead of soda or fruit juice
• avoid fatty foods, deep-fried dishes, or food with visible fat (pork chops)
• decrease your food consumption but eat healthier
• you can't do it just by doing mega-crunches. you need to diet and do lots of cardio.
• to measure your progress, you can do a fixed number of abdominal reps/week and increase the number every week. by the end of the program, you should be able to do 600 reps/session - a combination of side-bends, crunches, leg-raises, sit-ups, etc.
• ideally, you should only use body weight 'coz you want your waist slim and lean...not wide and bulky
• high rep/low load is ideal until you feel the burn...and then continue until you feel fire!
• best to take the photo shot with a uni-directional yellow light pointing down...it highlights shadows

Abs Blogs:

• Yoga for a 360-degree Core Nov 6, 2020
• Abs Yoga: Core Sequence June 14, 2014
• 3-Month Online ABS Showdown 2014 Jan 10 - Apr 10, 2014
• Male-Female Abs-Showdown 2010 Apr 6 - Jul 6, 2010
• Sandugo Male-Female Abs Showdown 2009 Jan 11 - Apr 12, 2009
• Bruce Lee Lats Showdown Feb 3 - Aug 3, 2008
• All-Femail Abs Showdown 2008 Jan 13, 2008
• Abs Showdown (Male) 2007 Oct 15, 2007
• Abs Christmas Present (2007) Oct 1, 2007
• Abs Showdown 2002 with Cos May 2, 2002

Information:

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• Camp Sandugo
• Products
• Contact Sandugo
• Services

RJ Esplana
(Aug 20, 2010) I got the prizes last night, and it's great! Thanks to Sandugo!

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