Get Six Pack Abs

Many people starting an exercise program to lose their belly fat continually ask "what are the best ab exercises for losing belly fat?" The simple answer is….

There are NO such exercises! This may seem counter intuitive, but the body just doesn’t work that way.

Isolating a certain area of the body and just trying to work that muscle area will not produce a strong enough metabolic increase to significantly stimulate fat burning. Save yourself a lot of frustration and heartache and stop looking for that "super abs workout" that will give you those ripped abs in a week. If you have excess belly fat that you are trying to get rid of then you need to look at the body as a gestalt-or whole, synergistic system.

The body does not work in isolation. Even simple motions, say picking up a pencil off the floor, involves complex, multi-joint, multi muscle movement. This how the body effectively works and since the body effectively works as a multi jointed synergistic whole, it makes much more sense to create an exercise routine with this in mind.

This is why those silly "ab-rollers" or "ab-belt" gadgets you see hawked on TV don’t work. You can’t isolate one muscle group and effectively stimulate fat loss. So what DOES work?
There are proven strategies and techniques that really work. Here are some general guidelines that will genuinely help you get rid of that stubborn belly fat and lose it forever.

1. The main point to remember is when you design your workout routine stop concentrating on doing those endless reps of crunches, leg lifts, sit ups etc. Remember, you are trying to boost your metabolism so it begins to burn fat. Isolating your abdominal region with these types of exercises will not stimulate fat loss from your belly. It is a falsehood that just doesn’t seem to die. Certainly it’s fine to spend part of your routine with isolated abs exercises. They can increase your strength in that area as well as in your back muscles but they should make up just a small part of your overall program. It is much more effective if you spend most of your routine with multi-muscle exercises that involve the major muscle groups in the body such as the legs, torso, chest and back.

If you concentrate on these multi-muscle, complex type movements you boost your metabolic response during the workout and for 1-2 days after as well. It also helps stimulate the production of fat burning hormones in your body that will help you lose even more fat during normal, everyday activities. Can you get this same benefit if put on an "abs belt" or use an "abs rocker-roller" gadget? No way!

If you really want to lose that excess stomach fat then do deadlifts, some step-ups, lunges and squats with weights. The type of exercises you do aren’t as important as keeping up the intensity and doing full body resistance workouts with the major muscle groups. Keep at it without taking those long breaks in between sets. If you concentrate and raise the intensity of your workouts like this then that belly fat you thought was permanently glued to your midsection will begin to disappear.

2. The second guideline that will greatly help get rid of belly fat is following a proper nutritional program. You should not bow down to popular wisdom and go on a fad diet that is low fat or low carb, or low anything that restricts a certain macro nutrient that you need such as protein or carbohydrates. These fad diets will counter the natural effort of the body to burn fat. Frequently what they do is cause you to lose your lean muscle and lower your metabolism. This, of course, is the opposite of what we want to accomplish. This is why people so often "boomerang" that are on these type of diets and gain back all their weight and more when they start to eat normally again. The human organism needs a wide variety of nutrients-sometimes it needs high protein foods, sometimes it might need fatty foods or foods high in carbohydrates. Keep your diet diverse and as much as possible eat unprocessed, organic living foods. When your body is signalling it needs protein, for example, skip the hamburger fast food meal and try a fresh avocado or some raw almonds or pecans instead.

If you deprive the body of one or more of these macro nutrients it upsets the delicate hormonal balance needed to keep your body on the right "metabolic engine" to keep burning fat. You want to burn the fat..not your lean muscle!

So to sum up don’t spend most of your workout on those traditional abs exercises like crunches, situps, leg raises and using those junky useless abs gadgets. Concentrate instead on full resistance body lifts and multi joint complex movements to get rid of belly fat. Combine your effective workouts with a biologically correct diet of natural minimally processed foods and you will quickly develop those nice sexy 6 pack abs.