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Sexy Six Pack Ab Secrets Revealed! One of the biggest mistakes most people make is focusing too much on ab exercises.
Sure, you need to work your abs but not to the neglect of your overall fitness program.
No matter how many ab exercises you do, it won't matter if the rest of your program doesn't help you build muscle and burn away body fat.
You could have the strongest abs in your neighborhood but if they're covered in an ugly layer of body fat, does it really matter?
If you want hard abs, you need to burn fat so those abs can be seen.
You MUST focus on your other muscles even if your goal is six pack abs. This will help you in numerous ways such as:
Keeping your body in balance. This isn't just about looks. An imbalanced physique is an injury waiting to happen.
For example, if you focus on getting those ribbed abs by doing tons of ab exercises and neglecting your lower back, you'll develop an imbalance between these two opposing muscle groups and before you know it you'll be walking around like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Not good.
By training your large muscle groups, you'll burn more calories in your workout than you would just doing abs (where you'll barely burn any calories).
Burning more calories helps burn fat. The less body fat, the better your abs will look.
Many other exercises also work the abs pretty hard since your core stabilizes you during exercises like: Your abs work hard on all these exercises.
Unless you are taking a planned break or back cycling with an easy week of workouts, always look ton increase the intensity by doing more reps, heavier weight, or getting more work done in less time.
This includes your ab exercises. You don't need to do endless sets of hundreds of reps.
Instead, add weighted resistance and keep your reps in the 12 - 25 range most of the time.
The abs are a muscle just like the legs, chest, back, etc. Work them like a muscle.
The most important key to ripped abs is shedding the flab. This means proper nutrition, intense weight training workouts and high intensity cardio training.
Follow a proper nutrition plan, do your high intensity cardio, kick butt on a solid weight training program and you'll be showing off your sexy abs in time for summer.
Six pack abs may be the number one goal of anyone who starts an exercise program with the goal of losing weight.
The same six pack abs are probably the most elusive achievement for anyone who is trying to lose weight and get in shape.
So what ab exercises are the magic bullet when it comes to a six pack abs workout?
Well, there's the twist.
Abdominal exercises, while important, aren't the key to getting great abs.
It drives me crazy every time I see an infomercial for some silly piece of "new" "breakthrough" ab exercise equipment.
Let me tell you right now.
Squeezing your abs for a few minutes every day on some infomercial ab equipment is NOT going to get you six pack abs, help you lose weight, get rid of your love handles or give you a flat, sexy stomach.
No way!
Endless crunches will not melt away the fat from your midsection.
It just doesn't work that way.
And despite the "burn" of high rep ab exercises, you barely burn any calories while doing those endless crunches.
Your fat burning time is best spent elsewhere on more effective training.
You also don't work the ab muscle intensely enough during exercises lke this to develop it.
So endless high rep crunches fail on both counts - poor muscle building and poor fat burning.
Two thumbs down as the cliche goes.
Proper ab exercise just doesn't involve endless crunches or sit ups. At least not if you want to achieve the results that you are looking for.
The truth about six pack abs is that it takes a complete fitness program that involves proper diet, weight training and cardio (preferably high intensity cardio training).
This doesn't mean you shouldn't do ab exercises.
It does mean that ab exercises shouldn't be your focus and most definitely shouldn't be the only exercise you do.
In fact, you can get a flat stomach without doing any abdominal exercises.
I don't recommend this, but not for the reason that you need to work your abs to get a flat stomach. It's just not true.
You need to get your body fat down to a pretty low level to see your abs.
And getting your body fat down that low requires strict attention to your nutrition program, your weight training routine and your cardio program.
You should work you abs for overall health and fitness reasons, to be better able to do every day things, to be able to excel in sports or other activities that you may participate in, and to provide balance to your body so you can prevent injuries.
A lot of injuries occur because of body imbalances, like overdeveloping the abs without exercising the lower back.
I believe a lot of hamstring injuries that occur with professional athletes is because they overdevelop their quad muscles relative to their hamstring muscles.
So if you want to get 6 pack abs, be sure to incorporate a complete nutrition and fitness workout program into your life.
You'll be pleasantly surprised by the results.
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