If your six pack workout is flimsy, your quest for abs is a lost cause. This workout is not about what you think it is though. Finally, you’ll be able to stop wasting your efforts and start getting the abs you have always wanted.
First, the central focus of your six pack workout is to burn calories. Nearly all people lack a six pack not due to lack of the six pack muscles, but because their body fat percentage is too high to be able to see those muscles.
If your heart rate isn’t high enough during your workout, you have the wrong focus. To do this, you’ll want to amplify the energy expenditure in a given time period. So you may either decrease the time it takes for completing the same work, or raise the rate you’re performing it. These are not always the same due to cool-downs. If you aren’t dripping rivers of sweat by the end of your work out, slap yourself across the face, go back, and do it right.
Next, ab exercises don’t burn a lot of calories so they should be used to build or maintain muscle (roughly same training style, just depends on your diet and a handful of other factors as to which happens). These ends achieved with low to mid rep ab exercises. If you’re doing more than 20 reps of anything at a time, that is for muscle endurance which does you no good at all. Traditional ab workout styles often demand you add weight to have a decent workout in this rep range. For ab work, this is usually either held on the chest, behind the head, or between the feet, depending on which side you’re lifting.
The third problem is lack of consistency. What I am referring to is the constant frequency of your six pack workouts. Three times or more a week is what you should be aiming for.
Easing up on this schedule will roll you out of the momentum you built. Lack of workouts on a regular basis may cost you the balance of calories needed to lose body fat. It’s not missing a single workout that’s a problem in and of itself, but what missing that workout often leads to.
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