Six Pack Abs - Don't Go Through Life Without Them!

Why Are Six Pack Abs So Rare?

A washboard stomach is a rare thing these days. Although you see a lot of people in magazines and movies with great abs, you rarely see a regular guy or girl walking around with a six pack. Most people eventually give up on their quest to get a defined midsection. They believe that it is only something for movie stars or super models. I'm telling you to quit thinking that way!

Lifting a Large Amount of Weight is Not As Impressive as Toned Abs

There are many, many more guys who can bench 315 pounds, than there are guys with a tight midsection. Many women can jog over 6 miles, but not many women have 6 pack abs. If you want to be exceptional, than having a defined midsection is the way to go. If you are spending any time in the gym at all and you don't have a 6 pack, then you are spending your time doing the wrong things. You will need to shift your focus if you want great muscle tone in this area of your body.

When Your Abs Are Defined, Your Whole Body Will Look Great

The fat around your stomach area is usually the last to go. If you get to the point where your abs are showing, then I guarantee you that the rest of your body looks amazing as well. I believe that this is the reason that people find toned abdominals so sexy...they know that the rest of the body must look toned as well! So if you focus on a 6 pack, everything else will fall into place.

Getting a Washboard Stomach is Mainly About Diet and Cardio

I swear that you could drop all those crunching and sit up movements and get amazing abs. How do I know this? Well, I haven't done a crunch in over 5 years and my abs are more defined then ever. Have you ever seen the TV show "Survivor". By the end of the show almost every person has really defined six pack abs and I know that none of them got there by ab exercises. You don't want to go to that extreme, but it does show you what low body fat will do.

Ab Exercises Probably Account for Only 10% of the Results

I don't think you need to directly target the abs to get a great mid section, but if you want pick one and hit it for 4-5 sets. The majority of your time should be spent on a bit of lifting for the rest of your body and intense cardio. As far as choices of cardio go, running on a treadmill or running outside is the way to go. Your abs work harder with running, because there is a certain amount of balancing involves between your legs and upper body. If you are on an exercise bike, your abs don't have to work at all. Your body is being stabilized by the seat.

Summary: You probably just need to increase the cardio and decrease the calories if you don't have six pack abs. I know it sounds almost too simple, but believe me it will work for you.

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Six Pack Abs - When You Don't Have A Lot Of Time! - A Workout For You

Sometimes you don't have the time you need and want to do a full abdominal workout program. This is a 'quickie' you can use and be done in less time than you can imagine.

3 Exercises.

1) Basic Crunch

2) 90 Degree Crunch

3) 'Invisible Ball' Raise

Step 1 - lay on your back, perform a basic crunch, legs at 45 degrees, feet on floor, hands at side of head (don't pull your head) - raise up until your upper abs contract. hold, then return to start.

6-15 reps

Step 2 - After a 5 secs rest, immediately bring your legs up to ninety degrees, shins parallel to floor. Do crunches again with legs continuously in this position - don't put them down even in between sets of this one.

6-15 reps

Step 3 - Now, imagine you have an 'exercise ball between your legs/shins' - with your legs at the same ninety degrees, put arms resting at side of your body. Raise your lower body up and off the floor about 4-5 inches - using your lower abs to raise it up. Then back to start slowly. If its too hard put your knees together, but use your lower abs and keep your legs at ninety degrees.

6-15 reps.

Now - no rest between each different exercise.

AND between each set take 5-10 seconds rest.

Do 3-5 Sets/Cycles of these three.

Then you are done.

This will be a quick, but a good one to really put a quick burn on your abdominals. Indirectly you'll work the side obliques as a stabilizing motion and primarily your core.

Stretch when finished by raising your arms over your head and stretching up and slowly back a fraction so you feel it in your stomach/abdominals.

Anyhow, hope that works for you all. A great little supplementary workout for your six pack abs.

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How to Get Toned Abs in Your Spare Time

Ever wonder how those gorgeous fitness models manage to look like they do? Seems unfair doesn't it? They probably worked for years to develop that sort of look. The truth is, they probably went from flabby and weak, to tight, ripped and lean within under two months....cmon, you don't believe that? It's often more painful to believe the truth. Because if they did manage such a remarkable transformation so quickly, you lose your excuse. You lose the reason that is keeping you happy and chubby.

What if you could be happy and ripped? When we press our fingers into our tummy, we find it spongy and flabby. Our pot belly distends and we feel disappointed by how it feels. Then suddenly we realize we didn't tense them. So we tense them and a little relieved, we are delighted to discover, there is actually a fairly firm wall of muscle behind that pudgy stomach fat. Phew! A little happier now, we casually glance up at the TV to witness a pair of glamorous looking fitness models demonstrating some exercise or other and it strikes us their abdominal muscles and your abdominal muscles are exactly the same but different in a very important way.

Take your shirt off and it barely even gets noticed by the opposite sex. When they take their shirt off, everyone looks and admires.

Something suddenly occurs to you. Something totally different. Something completely new about your abs. Getting abs is not about the muscles, it is about presentation and how they look. Toning your abs is not very difficult. This large muscle group responds very effectively to some mild pedestrian strain. They are a very large muscle group and can easily be trained to a point of ripped. The different is in the presentation. Those taught lean fitness models look so good because the skin across their abdominals is thin, supple and tight. Yours may be thick flabby and loose!

Getting toned, neat abs is more about reducing the body fat than it is building up and working these muscles.

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Abs Diet – What Are The Dos and Don’ts with Eating to Get Abdominals Fast?

If you want to find your abs, you have to burn the fat. Eating right is critical, and by following the nutrition principles of the Abs Diet and centering your meals on metabolism boosting foods. You'll lose fat pretty effortlessly. But to maximize your weight loss and turn your fat into muscle, you need an exercise plan. Exercise will not only make you healthier; it'll make you lose weight faster. It'll make you stronger. Most important, it'll make your body turn fat into muscle -- by converting energy that's stored in fat into energy that feeds muscle.

Most diet plans you’ll find, are dull with complicated, hard-to-follow rules and foods that taste like nothing more than cardboard. If they don’t taste like cardboard they don’t seem to fill us up and give us that overwhelming feeling of oh that was good. Please have a look at a couple recipes I have provided that I personally used in conjunction with exercise to get my abs.

Here's an example of how you can structure a week of eating. It's not written in as a concrete structured plan, so please mix and match to suit your taste and life style. For more recipes, workouts & mentors be sure to check out http://www.truthaboutabprograms.com.

Breakfast
One tall glass (8 to 12 ounces) Abs Diet Ultimate Power Smoothie; make extra for later

Abs Diet Ultimate Power Smoothie
1 cup 1% milk
2 tablespoons low-fat vanilla yogurt
¾ cup instant oatmeal, nuked in water
2 teaspoons peanut butter
2 teaspoons chocolate whey powder
6 ice cubes, crushed

Makes 2 8-ounce servings

Per serving: 220 calories, 12 g protein, 29 g carbohydrates, 4 g fat (1.5 g saturated), 3 g fiber, 118 mg sodium

Snack #1
2 teaspoons peanut butter, raw vegetables (as much as you want)

Lunch
Turkey or roast beef sandwich on whole-grain bread, 1 cup 1% or fat-free milk, 1 apple

Snack #2
1 ounce almonds, 1½ cups berries

Dinner
Mas Macho Meatballs
1 pound extra-lean ground beef
½ cup crushed saltine crackers
1 large onion, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tablespoon ground flaxseed or whey powder
1 jar (16 ounces) tomato sauce
4 whole-wheat hoagie rolls
½ cup reduced-fat mozzarella cheese, shredded
1. Mix the beef, crackers, onion, garlic, and flaxseed or whey powder into golf ball-size meatballs.

2. In a nonstick skillet over medium heat, cook the meatballs until browned all the way around. Drain the fat from the skillet, and add the tomato sauce.

3. While the mixture is warming, use a fork to scoop out some of the bread in the rolls to form shallow trenches. Spoon the meatballs and sauce into each trench, and sprinkle with shredded mozzarella, and top with the top half of the roll.

Makes 4 servings

Per serving: 569 calories, 38 g protein, 65 g carbohydrates, 19 g fat (6 g saturated), 10 g fiber, 1,341 mg sodium

Snack #3
8 to 12 ounces Abs Diet Smoothie

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Abs Workouts For The Beginner

Before I wreck your body by giving you advice that will totally wreck the V shape you are really looking for, Let me say, if you have too much excess fat, you should focus on fat reduction and not enlarging your abdominal muscles. There is a lot of confusion about getting a ripped six pack and I can understand why, so let me clarify this exceptionally convoluted reality.

It is very counter intuitive. The truth often is. In this case, I point to the ab machine company's sensing the great demand for a nice set of abs, and inventing contraptions that actually kill what you are working for in the first place. It is confusing literally for people only because the answer is too easy. Being so easy, it is rejected by the "logic departments" of most sensible peoples minds.

I will give you a few work outs below but this article is really not about enlarging your abdominals. Why? Why would an article about abs exercises actually be telling you not to exercise the abs? Well, the answer lays in the symmetry of your physique and what you are really looking for. For men in particular, the shape of the attractive body is a nice V shape. Even if you don't want that body builders body, but to look more like "Brad Pit" for example, which most women would agree is very attractive. You still don't want to grow those abdominals. Here's why.

Increasing the size of the abdominals actually kills that sexy V shape that you should actually be seeking. The V shape of large (ish) shoulders and a very tight waist is actually what you are looking for. To increase the size of the abdominals too much actually gives one a square shape,. Not what you want! The smaller the waist, the wider the shoulders the better and more satisfactory your physique is to the eye. The eye uses a quick scan of a body and tends to linger around the abdominals. The reason for that is the very shape itself. It POINTS to your abdominals. The eye looks at the differential between the width of the shoulders and the smallness of the waist to ascertain whether the individual has a nice body. (I imagine I must be blowing your mind by now if you haven't heard of this before)

So here is my advice. Reduce fat. You can go on a limited calorie intake diet and drop a few pounds a week. Within a month you will be amazed how much detail will show on your belly. The second thing is to actually have detail on your belly. The eye tends to look for detail. A flat plain featureless area attracts the eye to the outer edges. What this does is create the optical illusion of the area being bigger than it actually is. So doing a certain amount of abdominal crunches and sit ups is required. However, to focus exclusively on the abs and enlarge this quite responsive muscle group, is a mistake. Making them bigger or enormous will kill the V shape that you are really seeking!

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