With so many different opinions and methods given to achieving fat loss and build a six pack it’s difficult to decide to what works and what does not work unless you’re well educated in these things. To cut through the mass of information I’m going to mention three things that will work time and time again, no matter who you are. If you work on these three things you will get a six pack of flat lean abs.
The prime ingredient to {stomach fat| body fat|tummy fat| belly fat|abdominal fat} loss and six pack abs is to get control of your diet. If you get control of this and eat a balanced healthy diet you will find it easier to lose that body fat than to flog yourself to death on endless exercises. Don’t get me wrong here - exercise is important, but your diet takes priority when it comes to losing body fat so that you can see your abs.
These days there's tremendous confusion over what constitutes a healthy diet for fat loss. There are so many conflicting messages regarding what is healthy and what is not, complicated by gimmicky and celebrity diet books about low fat, high protein, low carb, fasting, atkins, vegetarian, liquid diets, south beach, and too many more to count. With all this mass of information is it any wonder that the average person is suffering from information overload and doesn't even know where, when or what to start eating for fat loss.
The second important factor that repeatedly works, is to concentrate on working the body as a whole and pay attention to the intensity of your workouts in order to get the greatest metabolic response possible that will work to lose that stubborn stomach fat.
To get the best out of, and to get really lean, these workouts should be high intensity workouts, separated by short rest periods. Rather than isolating small muscles like the biceps, triceps and calf muscle you should try working the larger muscle groups of the body. Apart from anything else this will avoid you ending up looking lop-sided or top heavy.
The third important secret concerns specifically training the abs. if you want real, tangible results forget about the usual crunches and sit-ups. Ok, if you are really out of condition then they’ll do some good. But if you’ve already got some training behind you then they just don’t offer enough resistance to do any good. And it’s resistance that’s the key to developing and toning muscles.
There’s no end of great abs exercises to tone and develop your abs. One I can personally recommend is the Hanging Leg Raise which is a really high resistance exercise, if done properly – unlike how most people in the gym do them. To get the best out of this exercise and really work your abs is to curl your pelvis up while you raise your legs. This is difficult to do at first for most people but with the right training can be learned and is well worth the effort of learning.
When it comes to building a six-pack abs body the biggest mistake I see people making is to get too focused on training their abs. That’s right! I did say get too focused.
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What they lose sight of is the fact that to get a good flat and visible abs six pack you need to get down to a low body fat percentage and especially lose that belly fat. To do this properly you’ve got to promote a fast metabolic rate – a fat burning metabolic rate. Concentrating on training a small muscle group, to the expense of the whole body, just does not increase your metabolic rate.
What’s needed instead is to spend the majority of your workout time training the whole body, focusing on training the large muscle groups like the chest, legs and back. That way your metabolism will get a healthy boost and so will the fat burning hormones. This whole body approach will get you a lot leaner and develop that six pack abs far quicker than concentrating on the abs alone.
Other top exercises that will help you get maximum definition with your abs include any kind of abs hanging exercise. Plus good floor exercises like lying leg thrusts. The whole emphasis is on losing body fat, not direct training of the abs themselves. There are many alternative effective exercises including swings and snatches, dumbell and kettlebell, lunges, step-ups, squats, deadlifts, presses. Basically anything that works on the larger muscle groups used in a high intensity workout.
That’s the three secrets to body fat loss. But I just want to go back to the most important and expand on it a bit. As I said earlier correct diet is the most important factor to belly fat loss and developing an abs six pack. The simple fact of the matter is that these days with our more hectic lifestyles we just do not pay enough attention to our diet. Without going into a boring list of do’s and don’ts, I’ll just make a few general observations. It’s the processing of our food that causes most problems. It’s not just processed but often over processed and it’s this over-processing that causes the problems, upsetting the bodies’ natural balance. So keep your diet as fresh and unprocessed as possible.
The keyword in all this is balance. Your body needs a balanced diet to perform naturally as it should do. It needs a wide variety of macronutrients and the right proportion of vitamins, fats, protein and carbs to function properly. Once it’s out of balance (with most people this means overweight or obese) the natural reaction is to diet. But by dieting you inevitably cut out a vital part of a balanced diet.
It is far better to correct the diet so you get a proper balanced diet first and cut back on the bad parts of your diet until they are in balance. And then, once this is achieved, a regular exercise routine will take care of the imbalance and the stubborn belly fat will start to disappear while your abs will start to re-appear again. This is not the quick fix that most people seem to want but it is a certain cure that combined with a healthy regular exercise routine will give you a long term result.
If you’d like to find out more about how the right diet can help you achieve the six pack you’ve always wanted or the best ways to get more out of your work outs then download a copy of the free 65 page e-book "Insider Secrets for a Lean Body" or visit the website that helped me to lose my belly fat – The Truth About Abs
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