November 14, 2009
Six Pack Abs Checklist
Diet, exercise and attitude are needed for six pack abs. Miss one of these and you will not get them. Sorry, just telling the truth. These 3 elements can be done but it will take some grunt work to do them. All the info you need for getting six pack abs is here. I will go into each component below.
Your Diet
I reckon most of you will have a six pack but they cannot be seen because a small layer of fat is making them invisible. We all use our stomach muscles in most of our daily routine and have built them up over time. Your first goal is to strip that layer of body fat. This can only be done by getting rid of the foods that put the layer there in the first place. What to eat is your choice. You have the knowledge of what to eat and what not to eat.
Your Exercise Plan
Ready for some hard work? You basically have to build the abs up to have them show but doing ab exercises should be part of an overall plan to get bigger. Do not waste your time doing hundreds of crunches, in fact, It could set you back in your goal Have an overall exercise plan for getting six pack abs like the one here.
Your Thinking
You must be totally committed to getting abs and that means not being tempted to deviate off course. Commit to do whatever it takes for 3 months and the results will astound you. You can do it as I have seen quite a few do it by simply using this guide to mentor them or simply go to http://www.perfectsixpackabs.info/body-fat-percentage-and-your-six-pack-abs
Filed under Beyond Random Ramblings by Arjuna
September 29, 2009
How Difficult Is It Really to Get 6 Pack Abs?
Once the standard of excellence in masculine bodies was the highly muscular look of weight-training body builders. The “muscleman” look of Charles Atlas and Mr. Universe winner Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Today, the extreme muscleman physique is less sought-after than the slim athletic look, characterized by a slim mid-section with all abdominal muscles showing.
To work on getting that look, many are putting an exercise for sixpack abdominals into their daily exercise sessions or are putting themselves on a diet routine they hope will help them to get good abs.
Certainly, some exercise is necessary. But that is just part of it, there’s a lot more to it than just that. You will need an integrated plan, containing all of the necessary elements.
Achieving that six pack abs look demands a professionally laid-out plan, step by step. Everyone is different and everyone needs a plan designed for them alone. You’ll need a plan laid out with your body type and your needs in mind. You cannot get that kind of informatin and plan by reading articles and tips on exercising and body-building.
You really need the services of an experienced professional trainer, one with a track record of many successes in guiding others to get their six pack. Expensive you say? Well, you don’t really need to hire a professional trainer personally! Resources are available that will enable you to tap into their expertise for a lot less money than hiring them personally
Professional guidance and advice should be sought out to choose the best 6-pack abs workouts for you. You can find it by clicking on any link in this article.
If you want to have six pack abs for yourself, here is what you need to do:: 1. Make up your mind that you really want to do it. 2. Get professional advice, a guide as to how to do it, ways that really work. 3.Based on that, lay out your plan. 4. Follow your plan step-by-step. 5. Just knuckle-down, buckle-down and get it done!
Author - Howard Helms
Filed under Beyond Random Ramblings by Arjuna
January 9, 2009
Lose Belly Fat–you Can’t Spot Reduce
For those of you looking to lose belly fat, it’s important that you have the right information in order to achieve your goals. If you’ve been doing countless sets of crunches, leg raises, or any other direct abdominal work in attempt to lose that spare tire, then you have the wrong information.
I’m about to show you why it’s absolutely impossible to lose belly fat no matter how many abdominal exercises you do. I’m also going to show you the right way to do it.
When you ask someone who seems to know about belly fat loss, they’ll give you an extensive abs routine consisting of crunches for the upper abs, reverse crunches or leg raises for the lower abs, and side crunches for the obliques. That should work your abs from all angles and melt that fat right from you belly, right?
No Way! That is completely false.
You will never lose belly fat by doing all of those abs exercises. Yes, you’ll end up with strong abs, and possibly even a six pack, but good will that do you if you have a roll of fat around them?
The reason direct ab work doesn’t work (pardon the pun) is that you can’t spot reduce. By spot reduction, I mean trying to lose fat from only one area, or body part.
It is therefore impossible to lose belly fat, and then not lose fat throughout the rest of your body.
In order to lose belly fat, you have to have a total fat loss plan. Fat won’t just disappear from your abdominal region simply because you’re doing every imaginable abs exercise. That’s not the way it works.
Fat loss occurs in the body as a whole. That means that if you want to lose belly fat, you have to have a fat loss strategy that burns fat throughout your body.
To lose belly fat, you have to change your workout focus away from direct ab work, and instead start doing the types of exercises that really burn fat. That’s heavy, compound exercises like squats, deadlifts, presses and rows. These exercises work most of the muscles of the body, along with their stabilizers. This, in turn, helps to release the hormones responsible for muscle gain, and fat loss. You can’t get that from crunches, or leg raises, and definitely not from side bends.
You also have to do cardio, but not in the way you’ve been taught. To lose belly fat, you have to do high intensity cardio. That low intensity stuff won’t produce a hormonal response the way high intensity, interval cardio does.
Simply put, high intensity cardio releases fat burning hormones, and revs up the metabolism in a way that slow, steady state, and long duration cardio never will.
Aside from heavy compound exercises and high intensity cardio, if you’re serious about losing belly fat you must also eat a healthy and well balanced diet to really lose that belly fat.
By healthy and well balanced I mean a diet that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables, lean meats such as chicken and fish, nuts (unsalted), and whole grains. Notice I didn’t mention anywhere that you must starve yourself. That’s not the way to lose belly fat, and it’s definitely not the way fat loss works.
If you starve yourself, or deprive your body of any of the macronutrients (i.e. proteins, fats, carbohydrates), you won’t lose belly fat. Instead, you’ll end up messing with your metabolism. Essentially, you’ll end up slowing down your metabolism and stopping your fat loss before it even starts.
So, to really lose belly fat, you can’t try to spot reduce it away. Spot reduction does not work. Instead, you must focus on fat loss in the body as a whole. You have to include compound exercises, and high intensity cardio. And, you absolutely must include a healthy and balanced diet.
Filed under Health and Fitness by Joshua