Ab Workouts

how to shift your stubborn belly fat for good

Ab workouts are essential for building six pack abs, but they are not the "be all and end all".

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Now back to those Ab defining workouts.

If you want lean muscle, go for longer sets; for stand out abs, do the shorter sets with more resistance or weights involved.

You have to realise at the outset that no matter how many ab workouts you do a week (and you can work abs every day if you want to) you are never going to see the results of your efforts if you do not follow a low fat diet and do plenty of energetic cardio.

You can have excellent ab configuration, but your waist will actually look bigger if you don't get rid of the fat in front of your abs.

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There are different movements that target different sections of your abdomen. The most popular and generally successful workouts include:

Crunches and sit ups: Sit ups will work your entire abdominal wall while the bench crunch (with your legs raised over a bench) will work on middle and upper abdominals. Lower and middle abs can be worked with the Roman

Chair sit up, which you can adapt to a fitness ball exercise, hooking your feet securely under a cupboard or bench, then slowly and carefully raising and lowering your upper body.

The instability of the fitness ball encourages the development of extra core strength. To add that little bit extra to these types of exercises, you can twist through the movements either with or without weights.

Seated bent knee raises, where you bring your knees in to your chest will work the frontal abs.

Side Bend and Side Twist: To work your abdominal obliques, try side bends with or without weights. It's best to try without weights until you get the movement right.

Side twists will mobilize the waist area (intercostals) as well as giving greater flexibility to your obliques.

Make sure you fully engage your targeted muscles during the exercises you do by squeezing and holding that contraction. No matter what abdominal exercises you choose, you need to ensure that you do them properly and slowly, using correct form.

Otherwise, your considerable efforts will be minimized and you could well end up with a literal pain in the neck from overstraining the wrong parts of your body.

You can get a sexy flat stomach or stand out six pack with correct exercise and diet.

Mike Geary, who wrote the very popular E-Book, The Truth About Six Pack Abs has a lot to say about full body workouts that not only work on your abs, but tone the rest of your body at the same time.

He is not a great fan of cardio, except for high intensity interval training. He has written some very interesting and informative articles on the subject of six pack abs, including The 3 Best Ab Exercises that aren't called Ab Exercises This article, complete with color photos details one of the best "ab workouts" that doesn't include any direct "ab exercises" at all.


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