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I always think it's stupid when I see people going to the gym to just do one thing and then leaving. It's always going to be more effective to work your whole body. If you want to get better abs, it's good to do other things like running so that you can gain endurance and get rid of the extra fat(muscle won't look good with fat covering it up). Plus...a lot of times different excersizes work more than one part of the body. I don't see why you wouldn't want to work out any other parts of your body. Yeah, it takes work, but when you're done, you feel better about yourself, you look better, and you're healthier. *shrug* But that's just me.
Anyway...crunches *do* work but you can't expect to see results right away. And it's good to do several different types of things for each part of your body. I'm a girl and naturally, I don't gain muscle as easily as a man...but I used to do 60-120 crunches every night for about 2 years. It wasn't until the second year that I started to see defenition. The good news though, is that once you have it, it doesn't go away easily and it's easy to get back after a break.
So...as I said to someone else, getting a trainer once or twice is good just to get some guidelines on what excersizes you should do to improve certain things and how to do them.
Still...if you're interested, I can try to describe some of the stuff I do...maybe I could even look it up and try to get a guide with pictures if I'm feeling up to it.
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