Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Six Pack Abs - Secrets, Myths And How To Get Them

Six Pack Abs Myth's Tip's And Fact's


Hot six-pack abs are sought after and oft-admired, especially during the summer months. If you're on the lookout for that perfect six pack ab solution to help you get in shape for this year's beach scene or whatever reason, you might be confused to how to get started.

5 myths surrounding hot six-pack abs

Let us look at these myths and see if you've fallen for them.

Health foods are readily available in the form of bars, drinks, and a hundred other shapes and sizes. The claim here is that that health foods will help you lose your belly fat and develop six pack abs. The simple fact is that the only real health foods are the ones created by nature, not in a laboratory. If your ingredients list is more then 6 or 7 items long, and any item has more than 5 or 6 syllables, you're not a health food.

The second myth about getting Six-Pack Abs is the notion that abs exercises will burn off your belly fat. Many people think that by doing 100 crunches a day they will eliminate belly fat. Sorry, that doesn't work; you will strengthen the muscle under the fat but the reality is your belly fat will still be there.

Thirdly, everybody agrees that cardiovascular workouts are important for fat loss, but there are right ways and wrong ways for doing cardiovascular exercise.

As an example:

Instead of the marathon treadmill workout try interval training, Short intense and highly effective for burning belly fat to show those six pack abs. Intervals are the single most results producing exercise that there is for boosting your metabolism, helping you burn inches off your body, and giving you a tight, lean, strong shape.


An interval is a short period of exercise performed at a given intensity for a specific length of time. Each interval is separated from the next interval by a short rest or lighter activity.

Contrary to what many marketers want you to believe, you cannot rely exclusively on a pill to burn belly fat and get you six-pack abs. You need a combination of diet, exercise, and willpower, these are the contributing factors to lose fat, lose weight and properly support six-pack abs.

Infomercials Should Be Banned!

Last, but far from least, waste of money that is ab belts, rockers, loungers, and similar gizmos. The commercials are always so attractive as you watch the model with perfect six-pack abs flex away on the nifty-looking ab machine. The reality is that the contraption they're using has absolutely nothing to do with their perfectly chiseled stomachs and six pack ads!

3 tips to obtain hot six-pack abs

There are 3 ultimate tips for losing belly fat and getting Six Pack Abs.

First, figure out your daily energy needs, and eat properly to meet those needs, and nothing more. If you eat more than you need, losing belly fat becomes much harder.

Second, learn proper weight training and interval training. Total Body Conditioning Workouts are the key. Weight training is still the best form of exercise for raising your metabolism.

Here's how to set up your workouts:

Weight training - 3 days a week - Total Body Conditioning Workouts - Concentarting on muli joint exercises - 3-5 exercises per workout - 45 minute at most workouts.

Interval Training workouts - 2-3 days a week - again total body conditioning - 2-3 exercises - 20 minute workout time tops.

Finally, learn which methods of ab strengthening are ineffective, and avoid them. The truth is, some of the old - standbys' for ab strengthening are directly counterproductive!

Want a good ab exercise? Forget Crunches do Mountain Climbers


3 common mistakes people make trying to lose belly fat and get six-pack abs

Most of the thousands of people trying to lose belly fat and get six pack abs for themselves make the same 3 mistakes over and over. The most common of those mistakes is failing to realize that you simply cannot achieve six pack abs that will show if you do not lose the belly fat that is covering them up! This is why spot-reducing doesn't work. The correction to this mistake is to eat and train properly to lose fat while you gain lean muscle.


Second mistake: a lack of cardiovascular exercise. You do need to perform some cardio in order to burn that belly fat, but you may not realize how you should be performing cardiovascular exercise. Rather than long duration cardio, try what I suggested earlier high intensity 'interval training' that you will perform in less time but with better results.

Finally, you need to rework your workout start doing total body conditioning workouts and teach yourself why crunches and similar old-school exercises are not going to give you six pack abs. I gave you one suggestion and there are many others

Total Body Conditioning Workouts,Healthy Food Choices and a strong desire will get you to your fat loss goals so you can see those six pack abs.
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That six pack is there So How Bad Do You Want IT?

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Your Six Pack Abs Quest: How's That Ab Gadget You Bought Working Out?

Despite the misleading infomercials, the perfectly chiseled fitness models in the commercials did NOT get their perfect body and six pack abs by using that “ab contraption”… they got their perfect body through REAL total body conditioning workouts and REAL nutrition strategies.

You should know by now that spot reduction is a myth. No amount of ab exercises or using the ab gadjets will get you six pack abs or serious loss of body fat. Only by total body conditioning and healthy eating will you burn off that unwanted body fat that will then allow your abs to show.


Ab belts, ab-rockers, ab-loungers, and other infomercial ab-gimmicks… they’re all a complete waste of your time and money and won’t get you six pack abs. Those marathon treadmill sessions forget them they are of some use but there is a much less time consuming way.

Six pack abs and permanent body fat loss are obtained with the use of total body conditioning with the use of compound exercises.

What are compound exercises? They are exercises that use multiple muscle groups.

*Squats
*Deadlifts
*Bench Presses
*Cleans
*Clean and Presses
*Pull-ups
*Dips

For the ultimate in lean muscle gain and to lose body fat these are the exercises you should be using. You could put together a workout of 3-5 of theses exercises 3 times a week and you would have an excellant total body conditioning workout. Oh and by the way theses workouts shouldn't take you more than 40-45 minutes.


By focusing more on multi-joint compound exercise as opposed to single-joint muscle isolation, you not only burn a lot more calories during each workout, but you also increase your metabolic rate, and stimulate production of more fat burning and muscle building hormones like growth hormone and testosterone.

Using compound exercises is proven to increase your metabolism which in turn is causing you to lose body fat long after your workout is over. Having lean muscle as opposed to higher levels of body fat causes body fat loss at a higher and faster rate.

Losing That Unwanted Body Fat means you finally having that Six Pack Abs look

Over the last 10 years, scientific research has indicated a couple of very important things to us about exercising for body fat loss. First of all, lifting heavier weights while exercising leads to a higher caloric consumption by the body in the period for about 1-2 days following the workout when compared to lifting light weights with high repetitions. So that’s why 6-8 repetitions per set is better than 12-15 reps per set when it comes to stimulating the metabolism for losing body fat permanently.

Here's a total body conditioning workout you can start using today.

1- Barbell Deadlifts Back, Legs, Abs, Delts, Grip and cardio all get worked during deadlifts - A must do exercise in your workouts.

2 - Dips no dipping bars? do them between 2 chairs. Chest, Triceps and Delts get work.

3 - Squats another must. Use a barbell. Legs, Abs, Hamstrings, Glutes and Cardio all get worked.

4 - Dumbbell or Kettlebell snatch Glutes, Hams, Back, Delts and Cardio.

Total Body conditioning short(not easy)but very effective and efficient for losing body fat gaining lean muscle for that six pack abs look.