Six Pack Abs - Abs Gear or Fat Loss?

Are you sick and tired of trying to lose that belly and struggling to show those abs? You have probably been searching on the Internet to find a solution to get those six pack abs. Or maybe you have been watching the TV commercials offering numerous amount of abs gear.

Although many online companies bombard us with possible solutions to get those abs and in spite of all the TV commercials that tell us we only need the next new abs gear solution, we still are left behind with the stubborn fat layer that covers our abs. So what is the real solution?

2 steps to six pack abs

You already have the abs and in some cases they are already well developed. There is a layer of fat hiding the abs.

So what we need to do is get rid of that fat and develop those abs a bit more.

How to get rid of the fat?

You need a good fat loss program, that teaches you how you can get rid of the fat in a healthy way. A program that teaches you how to avoid fat gain in the future. You need a diet planner and a calories planner.

How to develop those six pack abs?

Well, the question should rather be: "How to train my entire body?" The best way to a healthy and good looking body is following a workout program that trains all the parts of your body in an easy and pleasant way, but that also focuses on developing those abs. You don't need special gear as shown on tv. Very often apparel of that kind is not safe and could bring damage to your back and even your neck. The exercises need to be done in an accurate way to avoid damage to your muscles and to avoid back pain. The only way this can be achieved is by somebody showing you how to do the exercises.

The psychological part.

You need to set goals before starting any fat loss program or abs workout. So you will need guidance by an expert. You will have to persevere in order to achieve results. You will need other people to encourage you to continue with the fat loss or abs program. There are specific fitness communities and talk groups online. Very often these forums and talk groups have fitness experts among the members to give good advice about fat loss and getting those six pack abs.

Before everything else you will need to see a doctor. Just to keep it safe.

Rudy Dhondt sits in front of his computer screen 8 hours a day. As a result he has gained a lot of weight. He has taken the challenge to show six pack abs within a few months time.

You can follow along with his progress at Six Pack Abs

How to Get Stronger Abs With These 3 Practical Tips

You have just finished viewing one of those advertisements for stronger abs, but you just don't believe that you can accomplish it yourself. Well you can and the people in those ads are proof that you can. So let's discover how to get stronger abs.

The stomach muscles are a very large muscle group and perform the job of supporting the frame of our body. Should one neglect to exercise these muscles, they eventually atrophy and can cause various aches and pains throughout the body. Stronger abs can change the whole shape of the body and turn it into a healthier body, and with stronger abs one can go the distance in cardiovascular exercise.

So now let's discover how to get stronger abs.

Before any exercise, consult your doctor to make sure you are able to exercise without problems.

Hydration is vital, so drink plenty of water any time you exercise. This is the first tip. By drinking lots of water on balance you will eat less and feel more sated more often. Many pangs of hunger, we actually mistake for hunger when it might be a host of other things the body wants. Often it is water the body is craving.

The second tip is to maintain proper form, as poor or wrong form can negate the exercise or cause muscle injury or shape muscles incorrectly making them look unbalanced if you habitually use bad form.

The third and final tip, repetition. Repetition is the key- for in repetition you are applying a pedestrian strain to the muscle group that causes it to respond by growing and shaping.

The exercise is the same exercise you have heard about for years, simple sit ups. It is by far the most effective movement for abdominal strength. The reason people fail is they do not follow good form or they don't restrict calorie intake. It's as simple as that. You could train your abdominals for a month and I could show you how to get a superb rack of abs in no time, but if you dont limit your calorie intake on a daily basis ,if you have too much fat....those new muscles will never be visible because the layer of fat is too thick.. How to get stronger abs in 3 practical tips sounds almost ridiculous,

Get stronger abs fast by simply applying pedestrian strain on them and you will be astounded how easy your bumps will begin to form!

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Bodybuilder Six Pack Secrets Revealed - Tonned Abs As Easy As 1 2 3

As you may already be aware, abdominal muscles are crucial for stability and wellbeing. Its crucial that we all take this muscle seriously as under developed abs will lead to medical conditions such as muscle strain, back pain & many other conditions. After adding abdominal workouts into your life you will find yourself sitting straighter, lifting more at the gym and working with confidence.

The Abdominal region is broken up into 4 different muscle groups ! What you will find is that you will have stronger and weaker regions in your abdominal area which is due to your current lifestyle physical activities. I personally used to suffer with one side of my body being significantly undeveloped due to being on the shovel a lot of the time.

Ok so what are these abdominal muscles called you ask ?

Transverses abdominus, rectus abdominus, external oblique muscles, and internal oblique muscles. They are present in between the ribs and the pelvis.

The first part of the Abdominal process should be diet ! You must get the old school theory out of your head that three meals a day is enough, simply put its sending your backwards.

After a couple hours of not eating your body goes into starvation mode and slows down your metabolism as it has no idea when its going to get its next meal. You must fix this as this is your easiest ticket to getting your stubborn fat of your belly. You can almost eat anything if its in moderation and spaced throughout the day. Try to stay away from Carbohydrates just before you go to bed as this will most definitely end in a flabby stomach.

The Second for abs development is exercises. The essential exercises include basic crunches, abs rollers, abs trainers, hip-lifts and leg raises. It would be a great idea to create a workout diary so you have a system to stick to & just as importantly be able to monitor your progress.

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Slimming the Waist: Article 1 of 3 - The Abs Routine

Let's face it...there's a million different abdominal exercises and routines out there, and each one promises to have the right stuff to give you a six-pack, get you toned, remove those love handles, and fulfill any other elaborate plans you may have for your midsection. With so many choices, it can be difficult to decide which is best, or perhaps more importantly, which achieves your goals with the least amount of effort.

To simplify things a bit, I'm going to break abdominal training down into 3 basic categories: smart training, effective cardio, and proper nutrition. By the time you finish reading this series of three articles, you'll be equipped with 1) a quick and easy way to design your own abdominal routine using a simple set of rules (this article); 2) an explanation of how to incorporate both long and slow fat-burning cardio and quick and fast metabolism-boosting cardio into your program and 3) five simple nutritional rules to make your body a fat-burning machine.

Time to go to ab school. Since this isn't anatomy class, I won't waste your time naming the muscles and giving you strange Latin terms like "rectus". We'll go straight into the good stuff - how to design your own waist-slimming routine. This type of routine works best when you're able to devote an entire workout to core training alone. Your ab exercises should fall into a five basic categories:

WARM-UP:

The start of your routine needs to get the ab muscles "firing" in conjunction with the rest of your body. Basically, this means your warm-up exercise or exercises need to use the full body and center around a waist hinging action, such as:

Body Weight Squats: start in standing position, then "sit down" until your thighs are parallel to the floor, keeping your center of gravity back behind you.

Lunge with Overhead Push: lunge forward holding a weight, and as you stand out of the lunge, press the weight overhead.

Inchworm Crawl: with open space in front of you, start in a fully extended push-up position, walk the feet towards the hands as close as possible, then walk the hands away from the feet.

Complete 1 set of 10-20 reps for each of these exercises, then move on to...

STABILITY:

Stability exercises should be body weight only exercises that fatigue the abs with a high amount of reps and a low amount of resistance. These would include crunches, flutter kicks, reverse crunches, twists and anything else that doesn't require a weight or apparatus to accomplish. Choose 2 or 3 of these exercises, complete 15-20 reps for each, and after you've got a "burn" feeling in the abs, progress to the third section...

STABILITY WITH RESISTANCE:

Now that you've completed the stability exercises, you're going to add a weight, like a plate, dumbbell, medicine ball, or just plain gravity. Exercise examples would be an incline bench crunch, a weighted crunch, a weighted straight leg crunch or a medicine ball twist crunch (i.e. Russian Twists). Since your resistance is going up, your rep count will go down. Complete 10-15 reps for these exercises, and do them at a slower pace than the stability exercises...now your abs should be wide awake.

DYNAMIC CORE:

The difficulty of the exercises, in terms of movement complexity, is going to be the greatest with your dynamic core exercises. These should be done in a standing position, and should include a twisting, flexing, or rotating component that forces you to work against resistance. Examples of dynamic core exercises include:

Cable torso twists: hold a shoulder level handle attached to a cable apparatus at arm's length, and pull the cable across your body using the torso, not the shoulders.

Woodchoppers: begin with a medicine ball held over head, then "chop" down, bending at the knees and back, so that the ball endsbetween your feet. These can also be performed diagonally.

Around the World: holding a weight in your hands with the arms straight, draw giant circles with a weight or medicine ball, bending and extending at the knees and back as you drop from the high point to the low point of the circle.

Your heart rate will be the highest during this part of the workout and your reps should be low: 8-10 for each exercise is fine. Finally, for the last part of your routine...

UNBALANCED:

Here is the trickiest part of your routine. You need to find an exercise that throws you off balance. Here's one example: get into the pushup position and twist toward the ceiling with one arm only, opening your body in one direction. Then reverse and twist in the other direction, keeping both legs planted. Another example is a crawl crunch, where you assume a crawl position, extend both arm and leg on the same side, then crunch your elbow and knee together. As little as 5-10 repetitions will be more than enough for each exercise in the unbalance phase.

That's it! Put them all together and you will have a complete routine for your entire midsection. You're one step closer to slimming the waist. Many of the abdominal routines I design for online clients are based on these same principles. By signing up for personal training at WWW.PACIFICFIT.NET, you have access to multiple core workouts, complete with exercise picture and video galleries, as well as constant exercise and routine updates, and frequent evaluations to track your progress. In the next article of this series, I'll be telling you the fastest way to burn fat and lose weight with cardio. Until then, train smart!

Ben Greenfield

M.S. PE, NSCA-CPT, CSCS

elite@pacificfit.net

Ben Greenfield holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Sport Science and Exercise Physiology, and is certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a Personal Trainer and Strength and Conditioning Coach (NSCA-CPT & CSCS). For over 5 years, Ben Greenfield has coached and trained professional, collegiate, and recreational athletes, and helped hundreds of individuals achieve their personal fitness goals. Ben's expertise is now available for corporate wellness programs, triathletes, and individuals as http://www.pacificfit.net