Archive for July, 2009

Lower Ab Workout

Categories: Exercises For A Six Pack
July 24th, 2009 by Trainer

Secrets To Six Pack

Secrets To Six Pack

Okay, get ready for the great news! I’m ready to share with you three of the most beneficial lower ab workout exercises ever. I’ll also include a detailed description so you can execute each technique the right way. Here they are, from easiest to hardest:

Low Ball Pull In – |Begin in a push up position with your feet on a Swiss Ball. Don’t let your hips sag. Pull your knees in directly towards your chest while maintaining a neutral spine. Pull in your abs. Straighten your legs until they are straight and in the original position. Duplicate.

Hanging Knee Raise – Hold a chin up bar with the overhand grip. Beginning movement with your abs, lift your knees up until they are just about touching your chest. Return until your waist, hips, and knees are extended and straight. Repeat for the standard number of reps.

Rocky Abs- Lay on your back on a bench. Reach over your head and grab onto the underside of the bench to steady yourself. Lift your legs up until your hips (and legs) are at a ninety degree angle with your trunk. Now raise your hips straight up, bringing your feet towards the ceiling.

At this point, the only section of your body that should be on the bench are your head, shoulders and UPPER back. This is the starting position. Now bring down your legs until they are parallel to the floor, while keeping your hips up and off the bench. Return them to starting position and repeat.

There you have it! These 3 lower ab workout exercises are a few of my favorites. I must inform you that they are not easy movements. They will require hard work. But I promise that the hard work will pay off and you will soon be on your way to the perfect six pack abs!

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Boost Your Metabolism And Six Pack Abs

Categories: Diet For Great Abs
July 17th, 2009 by Trainer

Your metabolism is a vital ingredient if you are wanting to get a six pack. Basically, it is the procedure where your body turns calories that we consume into energy which allows us us to do our daily tasks. If there is any excess energy after this process it is stacked away on your body as either muscle or fat depending on what went in. You cannot ignore the old adage that calories in and calories out is what defines our health.

Your body is a brilliantly designed machine and many of us attempt to trick it into doing something that it does not want to do. I’ll give an example in laymans terms so you get the idea.

Some people who are trying to get six pack abs or any other body building program try to deceive the body into giving them the results they want by not eating very much at all. You figure if next to nothing goes in then you have to lose weight. This is incorrect. Doing this only sends your body into what is called survival mode.

It will stockpile whatever it is being fed because it is unsure when the next meal will be. See the point? Starving yourself is harmful to kick starting your metabolism. It is all about routine. Get your body into the habit of having small meals throughout the day, preferably 5 or 6.

Doing this on a consistent basis gets your body into the habit of saying “OK. Here comes more food for us. Let’s get to work and burn up what we were given previously”. With the meals being smaller than normal size servings your metabolism does not have to work as hard to burn these calories and turn them into energy. I know it sounds simple but the process is really not complex.

In summary what we have discussed here is quite basic.

1. Metabolism is the body’s way of turning calories into energy so we can execute our daily functions.
2. If your calories in is more than your body needs for energy then it gets stashed away on your body.
3. Eating fewer calories is actually doing you more harm than good sending your body into survival mode and storing what it gets.
4. Having five or six smaller meals daily will boost your metabolic rate ensuring it is doing what it is intended to do.
5. Doing aerobic exercise such as walking and running kick starts your metabolism.

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Cardiovascular Exercises For Perfect Abs

Categories: Exercises For A Six Pack
July 10th, 2009 by Trainer

Exercise For Ripped AbsIn addition to toning exercises that isolate the muscles and give you the tone that you want in your abdominals, you also need to use cardiovascular exercises that will work on the lower half of your body, including your abs.

There are many cardiovascular exercises that you can use for the lower half of your body. If you are overweight and want to develop the perfect abs, the first thing that you need to do is to start to lose some of that excess weight. We have already talked about proper diet and nutrition, now we must talk about cardiovascular exercise.

Cardio exercises are those that get your heart pumping and will help you lose weight fast. Cardio exercises should be performed in the morning or as early as possible in the day so that you can get your metabolism going and also burn more calories during the day. You should never perform cardiovascular exercises right before bed as you will find it difficult to go to sleep.

You should also never perform cardiovascular exercises after you have eaten or it can give you a cramp. If you cannot set your alarm early so that you can get up to work on cardio exercises, you should do them when you get home from work
and before you eat. This will help you burn off calories and will also tone your lower body.

This is not to say that the cardio exercises that you do cannot work for your upper body, too. Some cardio machines will work both the lower and upper part of the body, while others will tone the lower half of the body. You want to make sure that whatever type of machine you use, you will be toning the lower half of your body.

You can purchase your own cardio machine or you can join a gym and give yourself the workout that you need to tone up your abs. Or you can join a gym and have access to several machines. You will find that the gym is comprised of many exercise machines that can help you get the abs that you want as well as help you lose weight.

Even if you are not overweight, you should still exercise using cardiovascular machines for your abs. This will give you an intense workout that will help sculpt your abs faster and easier. There are some gyms around that charge a low monthly fee for membership.

Some of the cardio exercise machines that you can use that will tone up your lower half and give you the abs that you want are the following:

.Stair stepping machine
.Elliptical machine
.Rowing Machine
.Treadmill
.Exercise Bike

All five of these cardiovascular machines will work to not only get you slimmer, but also to tone up your abdominal muscles. You can use some or all of them to get the abs that you want. Most people find a machine that they like and settle into a routine. You can do that to help you get your tummy flatter than ever and start to get that six pack that you have always wanted.

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3 Key Elements To Building Ripped Abs

Categories: Perfect Six Pack Abs
July 4th, 2009 by Trainer

great-absI get it. Your months of hard training and discipline have not got you the ripped abs you dreamed you would have with your workload. You are not on your own. Email after email ask when will these damn abs start showing The answer is identical to all of them. They are missing one of the key elements to getting the perfect six pack abs.

What are the 3 important elements? Well before I mention them, let’s see what other plusses there are to having ripped abs. Definition in your six pack region will not only boost your self esteem but it will provide a host of other health benefits such as your posture and spinal cord will get stronger. Now for the 3 key components. Obviously these plusses make working on getting the perfect six pack well worth it.

Correct Cardio Work For Your Abs

If you have a layer of tummy fat covering your abs there is no point having them. Make losing it a major goal now. And this can only be achieved by doing the right cardio movements. Unfortunately, you cannot pinpoint an area of the body to lose fat from. It has to be part of the overall plan to lose all body fat. In other words, do not go ballistic doing abdominal training just to lose the midriff fat.

You will have to incorporate three or four really intense sessions of bike riding, jogging, some rope exercises and even some elliptical to begin the process of losing the belly fat. I’ll say it again, Numerous crunches etc will not shed the pounds of the stomach region.

Your Abs and Eating

Cardio by itself will not strip that belly fat. A disciplined diet regime is also needed. Doing 3 or 4 strenuous sessions a week does not give you a license to go on an eating binge. There is one golden rule to losing weight. Burn more calories than you are putting in and you have to lose weight but we have to make sure that what goes in is the right fuel to aid our endevours for our six pack abs.

Ideally you want to constantly eat throughout the day. Having five or six small to medium sized meals per day is more benificial than having three big ones. Having a snack nearby is a good habit to form so that you can eat it instead of impulse buying food that can harm your efforts

Attitude Rules

Here is the bottom line. Get ready for a ball breaking journey to get your perfect six pack abs. There are going to be occasions where you will want to quit. Resist this urge and keep your end goal at the forefront of your thinking.

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