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The Most Effective Way To Obtain Six Pack Abs and A Lean Stomach

Learn The Real Truth and Secrets About Abs

The first and most important thing to get control of in order to lose your belly fat and get flat abs is cleaning up your diet. Working out is important, but your diet trumps all when it comes to losing body fat so that you can see your abs.

There’s so much disarray these days about what a healthy diet that pushes fat loss really is… after all, we are so overwhelmed by conflicting messages in the media about what is healthy and what is not, and you have all of these gimmicky diet books about low carb, low fat, high protein, vegetarian, fasting, atkins, south beach, liquid diets, and hundreds more. There’s so much conflicting information, that the average consumer doesn’t even know where to start when it comes to eating for fat loss.

Another thing, is to focus on the intensity of your workouts and focus on working the body as a whole in order to get the best metabolic response to lose that stubborn stomach fat.

In order to really get lean, the workouts should have a high intensity levels, with short periods of rest, working out the largest muscle groups of the body, instead of trying to isolate specific small muscles like the biceps, triceps, or calves.

For the last thing, let’s talk about actually training the abs specifically. When it comes to training the abs, if you want real results, I always recommend forgetting about the stupid floor exercises for the most part. They are ok for someone that is really out of shape, but most people that are very well conditioned need a much better stimulus for their abs than crunches and situps. Crunches are one of the abs workouts that actually provide the least amount of resistance, and remember that resistance is what develops and tones the muscles.

I provide a ton of great abs workouts in my book, but one of “THE” highest resistance exercises for the abs, is hanging leg raises (but NOT the way you see most people in the gym doing them). The key to doing these and actually working the hell out of your abs is to curl your pelvis up as you raise your legs. Almost nobody ever does this right. To be honest, the majority of people can’t do this at first, but I provide some tips and tricks in my book as to how to progress to doing these correctly.

I know this might sound funny to some people, but the MAIN thing that people are doing wrong to get those flat 6-pack abs is… are you ready for this?

They spend entirely too much time focusing on training their abs! WAY too much time is spent on abs exercises. Sounds crazy, but it’s the true.

Remember, having a flat and visible six pack of abs is all about getting down to a low body fat percentage. In order to do that, your workouts must focus on stimulating a fat burning hormonal environment in your body, and increasing your metabolic rate. That just doesn’t happen when you focus too much time training a small muscle group like the abs.

Instead, you must use the majority of your time working and focusing on training the largest muscle groups of the body like the legs, back, and chest. That’s what stimulates your metabolism and the fat burning hormones that will get you truly lean and sporting a flat six pack of abs!

When it comes to forming the six pack abs themselves, I again refer to any kinds of hanging abs exercises, as well as some good floor abs exercises like lying leg thrusts (all described and illustrated in my book).

However, maximum definition in the abs and mid section comes from losing body fat, and the most effective exercises featured in my program for that goal are various forms of swings and snatches (unique dumbbell or kettlebell exercises that almost nobody ever does in normal gyms), squats, dead lifts, lunges, step-ups, cleans & presses, mountain climbers, sprinting, and other full body exercises and calisthenics. If you want great looking flat six pack abs, focus on those instead of focusing so much on training the abs directly!

I have included a fully comprehensive discussion of this topic in my book, which accounts for almost 2/3 of the book, but I’ll try to make some nice simple generalizations to get people started on the right path immediately. The most important thing is that your diet needs to be as natural and unprocessed as possible. It almost always comes back to the over processing of food that makes it unhealthy, and makes it totally wreck your metabolism and hormonal balance in your body.

For example, why eat refined grains, when you can eat whole grains (even better than whole grains are sprouted grains, as I usually recommend limiting grain foods overall for best results).

Why eat refined sugar, when you can get natural sources of sugar from a high nutrient whole foods like fruit. Why eat highly processed, refined, and hydrogenated vegetable oils (these are THE worst things to eat in the modern diet), when you can eat natural sources of healthy fats like nuts, avocados, fish, eggs, coconut milk, organically raised meat, and so forth.

The point is to not fall for some gimmick like extremely low carbs (although I do believe in a fairly reduced carb intake as that is a big problem for most people), low fat, super high protein, or any other combination that has you focusing on one macronutrient vs. another.

Your body needs all macronutrients it can get to thrive and obtain a variety of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, etc. Trying to cut an entire food group out just works against what your body needs in the long run. I get into much more detail on this vitally important topic towards losing body fat (especially that stubborn stomach fat) for life in my book.

program for lean flat abs. Well, I hope you plucked several nuggets of information to get you motivated and started on showing off your flat abs shortly. If you don’t already own a copy, be sure to pick up a copy of my Truth about Six Pack Abs book and discover the entire system I’ve developed for ridding yourself of that extra ab fat for good!