Want those sexy 6 pack abs that will get you noticed on the beach or by the pool? Jogging won’t work. Neither will swimming, or working up a sweat shooting hoops. Those are great cardio exercises. But to get sculpted, lean abs you need to add fitness strength training to your exercise regime. Here’s why.
Your muscles need to contract and flex to get tight and bulked. Sure, endless pushups and crunches will eventually get you in the right direction. But to really sculpt your body, you need to add resistance. You need to move your muscles over and over again and make them work for it. By adding fitness strength training with bands and weights, you are burning more of that belly fat and building more of the lean muscle mass at even the deepest level.
Your torso is wrapped in six groups of upper, lower and side abdominal muscles. Like a bandage, they overlay and intertwine. If you have a bulging belly, it puts extra strain on not only your stomach muscles but your mid and lower back muscles as well. To get those abs in shape, you need to get the rest of the muscles there as well.
Most people don’t realize that all of your abdominal muscle groups work with each other. You can think you are targeting just the obliques, but in essence, all of the six groups are being effected. You should work them at least three times a week, every day if you can.
Don’t fall for hype that one machine or magic exercise will do the job. Your abdominal muscles don’t fatigue like your muscles in your arms and legs. The trick is to vary your exercises. That helps your body respond instead of becoming complacent. Repetition with varying weights and at increasingly stronger levels of resistance can make your fitness strength training more enjoyable and produce results quicker than if you do the same routine in the same order day in and day out. If you don’t increase your weights and resistance, your muscles will stop working as hard. Whatever exercises you are doing will become ineffective and a waste of time and effort.
One more thing you need to keep in mind, eating a well balanced diet will definitely make your abs stand out. Make sure to have foods with low calories and always follow the golden rule to super charge your weight loss (high protein, high fiber, low fat and low sugar)
Experts agree. When you add weights and resistance, you are working the abdominal muscles harder and feeling the impact more. Add fitness strength training to your routine and those 6 pack abs will begin to emerge quicker as the flab disappears.
Mike Derfasi, known as (Mike Watcher), is a certified personal trainer who’s graduated from the College of Food and Agriculture and has worked for the Food and Drugs Authority since 2006. He achieved his Masters degree in Nutritional Science from Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia. He has authored several books, including the highly controversial e-book Triple Threat Theory To Maximum Fitness
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December 26, 2024