As a fitness personal trainer, one of the most common thing my clients request me to get for them is to help them develop hard chiselled 6 pack abs like those of male fitness models as if there is a secret formula. If you are reading this article, I supposed you too want to know what this formula is. Hang on tight as I am going to disappoint you because there isn't any secret.
Firstly, if you have a layer of blubber in your belly area, then you have to burn the fat off to reveal your glorious six pack "stomach muscles". There is no way that you will ever get the eye popping, jaw dropping set of abs to be seen if your tummy fat is covering them up.
As a matter of fact, your belly will even look bigger if you build muscles beneath your tummy fat because your bigger abs muscles will just push your belly out even further! That is can be very grotesque indeed. You may do thousands of crunches regularly, but those crunches will not in any way burn off the fat around your belly!
Just hop into any gym and you can see men with fat around their bellies doing crunches after crunches hoping to burn their fat away. No way this is going to work no matter how dilligent they are.
Now get this straight. There is no such thing as spot reduction although it does help a little if you know how to regulate your hormones such as cortisol, leptin and testosterone. But that can get rather technical and is for another article altogether.
When you engage in a fat burning program you will lose fat all over your body, however as everyone has different genetic disposition, there will always be a different set of result for each individual regarding where the fat is coming off.
Ok, I lied to you earlier that there isn't any secret. Yes, there is. Do you know that you can get your abs muscles without doing any crunches, sit ups or direct abs exercises? Surprised? No, I am not saying not to abs specific exercises, I am saying you can indrectly get your six pack abs muscles even without doing them.
Why is this so? Because if you do excellent compound exercises like the squats, deadlifts, bent over rows, weighted push ups and chip ups just to name a few, you would have already worked out your core muscles. Furthermore, as those exercises targetted many muscle parts, you are building muscles all over your body and your muscles like to grow symetrically and not specifically like when you were doing cruches targetting only the abs. Furthermore, the compound exercises mentioned earlier are excellent fat burners as well.
So the secret to getting your six pack abs to show is simply this.
a) Watch your diet to lose weight until your body fat percentage is below 12%.
b) Do cardio exercises for healthy heart and lungs and at the same time, burn more calories.
c) Workout with heavy compound exercise for overall muscle development including your abs muscles.
That's it. If you persist with the above three steps, your six pack abs will show up pretty soon.
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