Saturday, December 20, 2008

Easy Six Pack Abs

By Jose Loni

To get six pack abs quickly, we need to follow some basic principles. By eating a proper diet, resistance training, and increasing our metabolism, we can achieve fast results to get six pack abs.

Getting six pack abs, we need to reduce our overall body fat composition. Our six-pack abs will become more visible. By watching what we eat, we can energize our system so that our workouts will have the energy it needs to utilize the fat in our stomach as energy.

Here are some simple exercises that will train the overall strength of the whole body as well as develop the core abdominal muscles of our six-pack.

Warm up: we should start with an activity that is of light to medium intensity for 5-10 minutes, followed by some light stretching of the muscles involved in the exercise. We want to make sure that our muscles are flexible and ready for the activity.

Exercises: Do overall multi-joint exercises such as: squats, chin-ups, lunges, rows, split-squats, step-ups and deadlifts. Do 3 sets of 8 repetitions for each exercise. Stability ball sit-ups and bridging can be incorporated into the program as well, to strengthen and tone the core muscles as well as train the body in a different way (as opposed to traditional weight training).

Training with resistance has been shown to help develop six pack abs, by sculpting and lowering body fat levels. Multi-joint exercises at lower repetitions of 8 increase our lean body mass, which leads to increased fat burning as our metabolism is increased. Exercises specifically for the abs help strengthen and define our abs, especially when they become more visible after.

The increased lean body mass that we gain as a result of resistance training directly contributes to the increased metabolism of the body. The increased metabolism causes the body to burn fat as fuel not only during exercise but several hours afterward as well. When our metabolic system has been increased, our six-pack abs will be more visible and results will come quickly.

To get six pack abs quickly, we just need to understand and follow the basic physiological principles of diet, resistance training and increasing our metabolism. When we achieve those, we can definitely get our six-pack abs quicker. - 15995

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