Thursday, January 28, 2010

Rock-Hard Abs - What's The Secret?

By Darryl Snow

Do you envy those folks at the beach, with their washboard abs? Are you afraid to take off your shirt in public, because of the shape of your midsection? What if I told you that it's possibly for anybody to reach awesome rock-hard abs? It's true - With a little bit of work and dedication, you too can have the same beach bod that you envy. You can not be afraid to show off your stomach!

So, what's the secret? It's not particularly just "one secret", but basically a mixture of things that may help you achieve the look you once thought was impossible. For you are body to burn fat, you want 2 things : diet and exercise. When diet and exercise is combined and used together as a force, you'll be amazed at how you can turn your body into a fat burning machine!

to get your body burning more fat, you need to take in less calories that you are burning. To do that effectively, an glorious great start is to cut your calories slowly, week by week. Also, you wish to eat five to six small meals per day to hurry up this process. This pushes up your metabolism ( which helps you burn fat ). The higher your constitution means the more calories you'll burn. In truth, if you increase your metabolism, you will be burning more calories while you are at rest!

Once you get your diet in order, you want an exercise routine to go with it. A handy exercise for abs is kneeling crunches. You'll need special equipment to perform this exercise.

This is where you kneel and contract your abs so that your upper body arches Forward / downward. You hold a rope attached to a crane with weights for extra resistance. Most gyms will have a rope attachment to the triceps pull down to perform this exercise. The idea is to lock your arms against your higher body so you pull down only with your abs and not your arms.Don't overdo your exercises or overwork yourself.

The difficulty in getting great abs isn't so much building the muscle. It's cutting enough fat from your body for them to show. You know by this time that spot-reduction of fat simply does not work here. In order to show those abs you want overall fat loss.

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