If you spend hours scouring the web for tips on how to get abs or how to lose weight, today you are going to learn the simple strategies which most individuals in gyms around the world are totally overlooking.
If you have ambitions of achieving a solid six pack, you need to cover these three bases first:
1. Your stomach is not one muscle, it is three. Hit them all in tandem.
2. Don't overtrain your midsection.
3. Contract the muscle as you perform each exercise, otherwise it isn't working.
It is surprising how many individuals cannot tick all three of the boxes above. In fact, the first one throws an awful lot of people a curve ball. If you were to ask a thousand gym members which abs exercises they did as part of their routine, you would probably hear the same answers again and again. Crunches, sit ups, weighted crunches, and so on. But they are neglecting several key areas of their midsection with this approach.
Crunches won't hit your lower abs or your obliques. This is why even those in decent shape often only have the top two muscles clearly visible on their stomach.
If you want to get an appealing, well developed abdominal area then try today's full workout:
1. Crunches with feet on an exercise ball x 20
2. Leg raise x 20
3. Knee-touch-crunches x 20
Perform each exercise straight after the last, as a circuit, without any rest. After you have reached the end of the third exercise you should rest for around two minutes before beginning again. See if you can achieve 5 rounds of this.
Not only will this hit every single muscle within your abs, it will also kick-start fat burning to a whole new level due to the very high intensity of the session.
It is very easy to get caught up in bland, boring workouts for muscles which do not provide the same ego-boosting stimulus as biceps, chest and shoulders. This is why many men neglect training their legs and do very dull midsection workouts, but the fact is any muscle needs a reason to develop. If you keep hitting it with a boring, easy workout then it won't force itself to change.
If you get your training intensity sorted out, you can get fantastic results in a very short space of time. Should you train abs with weight? This is not really necessary, providing you can keep your intensity level high. Today's body weight circuit teaches you how to get abs with no fitness equipment and those who apply the techniques will see results from it.
If you have ambitions of achieving a solid six pack, you need to cover these three bases first:
1. Your stomach is not one muscle, it is three. Hit them all in tandem.
2. Don't overtrain your midsection.
3. Contract the muscle as you perform each exercise, otherwise it isn't working.
It is surprising how many individuals cannot tick all three of the boxes above. In fact, the first one throws an awful lot of people a curve ball. If you were to ask a thousand gym members which abs exercises they did as part of their routine, you would probably hear the same answers again and again. Crunches, sit ups, weighted crunches, and so on. But they are neglecting several key areas of their midsection with this approach.
Crunches won't hit your lower abs or your obliques. This is why even those in decent shape often only have the top two muscles clearly visible on their stomach.
If you want to get an appealing, well developed abdominal area then try today's full workout:
1. Crunches with feet on an exercise ball x 20
2. Leg raise x 20
3. Knee-touch-crunches x 20
Perform each exercise straight after the last, as a circuit, without any rest. After you have reached the end of the third exercise you should rest for around two minutes before beginning again. See if you can achieve 5 rounds of this.
Not only will this hit every single muscle within your abs, it will also kick-start fat burning to a whole new level due to the very high intensity of the session.
It is very easy to get caught up in bland, boring workouts for muscles which do not provide the same ego-boosting stimulus as biceps, chest and shoulders. This is why many men neglect training their legs and do very dull midsection workouts, but the fact is any muscle needs a reason to develop. If you keep hitting it with a boring, easy workout then it won't force itself to change.
If you get your training intensity sorted out, you can get fantastic results in a very short space of time. Should you train abs with weight? This is not really necessary, providing you can keep your intensity level high. Today's body weight circuit teaches you how to get abs with no fitness equipment and those who apply the techniques will see results from it.
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Info from: You can learn how to get abs by watching the complete workout clip from Russ Howe PTI. Russ is a TV-featured trainer who answers tough questions such as should you train abs with weight and more on his free personal training blog each week.
