Dream of Great Abs? Add These Tips To Your Weight Control Plan

                

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How many of people, not just those of us overweight, have dreamed of a "six pack" of abs? How many of you women have dreamed of having a stomach so flat and hard you would bounce a quarter off of it?

Judging by the number of “Rock Hard Abs” books and video’s out there, I’d say most of us dream of those abs!

Truth is, there is no “Silver Bullet” or “Magic Pill” for those kind of abs. It takes hard work and the right nutrition to produce abs that will turn heads.

Here are a few quick tips you can concentrate on while working your midsection out.

Don’t forget breakfast:

Why so many people skip breakfast is a puzzling to me. A good breakfast will help jumpstart your metabolism and give you energy to attack the day. Ramp up your metabolism to help burn all fat, not just the fat around your midsection. Go easy on the carbs such as breads and cereals. Mix your carbs with a good source of protein, you’re abs are growing muscles and muscles need protein.

Mind you Mother, Eat your Fruits and Vegetables!

Fruits and Vegetables such as citrus fruits and green vegetables such as broccoli have huge amounts of Vitamin C. Vitamin C is just one of the many helpful vitamins that you’ll get from fruits and vegetables. Vitamin C has been shown to help muscles repair damaged muscle fibers.

Specifically Work That Midsection!

While stretching and balancing routines due help strengthen your abs, you need to develop specific workout routines for your abs. Ask the personal trainer down at your Gym what exercises you can do to help you build up those abs. Some of the ab machines you see on TV actually do work, but you have to get up off the couch and use them. Best to stick to the Gym's free weight attachments until you get committed about chiseling your abs.

Feed the Abs

Small meals throughout the day will keep your metabolism going. Long gone are the days of eating 2 or 3 huge meals. Studies have show that smaller meals with smaller portions keep your metabolism going strong. When your metabolism is high, you feel like working out. Working the abs is the only way you’ll end up with a “six pack”!

Leave the Salt Alone

Salt stores water in your body. There are other negative aspects of too much salt. It’s a good idea to hide the salt shaker as many processed foods are loaded with salt (and sugar). As long as you’re drinking plenty of water and keeping your salt intake down, you body will most likely keep passing the water through your system, not storing it.

Watch the Fat

Let’s face it, we all know our bodies like to store fat at the midsection and on our thighs. You can work out 5 days a week like a banshee, but if your fat intake is through the roof, you can forget about the rock hard abs! Some fat is necessary for our bodies to function properly, just make sure you don’t go overboard. People who have low body fat find it easier to chisel abs (like you didn’t already know that).

The recommendations above are only a starting point if your goal is rock hard abs. The benefits you’ll discover along the way is that these same recommendations will also help you lose bulk in other areas of your body. Training your body to burn fat and build muscle is the first step on your journey to a healthier you. The abs will be a bonus!

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Build A Six Pack - Proven Ways To The Abs You Want

                

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Are you watching home TV advertisements? If you noticed that everything can be done in easy and fastest way just to have something. Just like building your six pack abs, this can be done with some kind of a drink? Do you think there is a shortcut to build your six pack abs? Remember, nothing is better than a plain machine when building a six pack abs.

Nowadays, because of the rapid growing of technology, liquids, tablets, medicines ban be used in building a six pack abs. However, expert says that these shortcut processes (liquids, tablets, medicines) are not an effective method in building your abs. Still, the effective ways is through constant exercises and go to the gym and pull up weights.

In building your six pack abs, you have to target three places. That would be your sides, the upper abdominals and the lower abdominals. To build and strengthen your sides, you can do twists or simply sit on a chair with your body straight up. You can also use a broomstick and place it across your shoulders and the left to right twist.

To build and strengthen your upper abdominals, the best approach would be is sit ups. Sit ups is to move into a sitting position from a lying position. To do this, you must lie down on the floor with your knees are bent at a ninety degrees and then sits up without moving your knees.

Lastly, to work with your lower abdominals, you have to simply look for something that would raise your feet and legs in the air while lying on the floor.

It feels good to have a very strong body in which you can do all things that you want. Especially the things you enjoy. Therefore, always be active and go constant exercise and you too can build a six pack.

Ok, so there is no magic secret to building abs but for if you are after proven ways to get results in the shortest possible time check out Build A Six Pack. This is great as it offers other free bonuses that will get you in total shape.

Why Crunches Won't Give You Flat Abs

                

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Flat abs are in. It’s almost essential if you are going to wear 70% of the clothes in the store. Halter tops, baby tops, and oh yeah bikini season make having flat abdominal number #1 on most women’s list of how she wants her body. Unfortunately, having flat abdominals are not as easy for the majority of the world’s population. And the rest do sit-ups and crunches until they are blue in the face just to find that flat abs are still thousands of crunches away.

The truth is we all have flat abs. Most of us just can’t see them because of the layer of fat over them. No matter how many crunches you do or how strong your abs are they won’t be flat until your remove the layer of fat on top of them. That means a full fitness regimen including weight training, cardio and nutrition, nutrition, …oh and did I mention nutrition. Eating “clean” is the term I like to call it. A whole food diet that is void of as many pre-made foods, preservative filled junk, and sodium and sugar infested boxes as your dedication will allow you. That means you may have to make time to cook. Yes that means you may have to visit restaurants less often. And yes, that means you will have to change some lifestyle choices for healthier ones that get you closer to your goals. If your answer to the above is a loud “I don’t have time”, “I can’t” or “I’m not able to” Then you should follow it up with the words “have flat abs”. This what it sound like.
“I don’t have time to…have flat abs”
“I can’t …have flat abs”
“I not able to ... have flat abs”.
And all that is interpreted as “I choose not to have flat abs”
Anyone can achieve their ideal body (within genetic capacity) if they dedicate themselves. So if you are ready to ditch your flab tire then follow the five rules of eating clean to clean out the extra fat, reduce your waist size.

1. Eliminate all white poisons and everything that contains them.( i.e. white rice, white flour, white sugar)
2. Eat every 2 to 4 hours (3 meals and 2 snacks)
 

3. Drink ½ your body weight in ounces of water each day
 

4. No grain carbohydrates after 6pm
 

5. Stopping eating 3 hours before bed time
 

6. Do cardio on an empty stomach first thing in the morning
 

7. Weight Train 2-4 times a week
 

Mubarakah Ibrahim is an AFAA certified personal trainer and owner of BALANCE fitness, a personal training service for women in CT that offers in-home personal training, on-line personal training, outdoor boot camps, and hiking clubs for women. She also lectures, promotes and conducts workshops on health and fitness through out the northeast. She can be contacted by visiting her website http://www.balanceCT.com or e-mailed at balanceCT@hotmail.com © BALANCE fitness. Article may be reprinted without permission only in it’s entirety including author bio and contact information.

The Abs... More Important Than You Think

                

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What comes to your mind when I say the word “abs”? Do you think of the infomercials advertising “6 second abs” or the latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue? Most people focus on training their abs to look thinner or sexier. But, do you realize the importance of your abs in everyday activities? Most yoga instructors do. And that’s why one of the focuses of yoga is to build your core abdominal strength.

Important for posture

Your abs attach to your spine and pelvis, helping balance your back in good posture. Often times, when your back is not supported in the correct posture by your abdominals and back muscles, back pain occurs. Did you know that back pain accounts for approximately 50 billion dollars in health care costs each year. This is not something to be taken lightly -- so remember -- one of the best ways to prevent back pain is to strengthen your abs.

It often takes a conscious effort to sit in good posture. But, even if you get into a good sitting posture, you will need the abdominal and back endurance to maintain it! How are you sitting at your computer right now? I would bet most of you are sitting in a slumped posture….some more than others. To sit in good posture, you should have a slight inward curve in your back with your ears directly over your shoulders.

One way to strengthen your abs while working on your computer is to use an exercise ball as your chair. Yes, you heard me right! In fact, I am sitting on my exercise ball as I write this article.

Important for balance

Without abdominal strength, you will have difficulty sitting, standing and walking. Your center of gravity is located at your sacrum or roughly just below your belly button. Therefore, your abs play an important part in keeping you balanced at your center of gravity.

Think about someone who is a quadriplegic or paralyzed from the neck down. They are not able to sit by themselves because their back and abdominal muscles are paralyzed. In other words, they are no longer able to balance themselves. In contrast, a paraplegic, someone paralyzed from the waist down, is able to balance and sit by themselves because only their legs are paralyzed leaving their abdominal and back muscles intact. This proves that our abdominals are important for our balance.

If you are now sitting on your exercise ball, you can practice some balance exercises and strengthen your abs simply by rolling your hips forward, backward and side to side. Make sure to pull your stomach inward during these motions.

Exercise your abs

Now that you know the importance of your abs, you need to integrate abdominal strengthening into your regular strength training. Abs should be trained like any other muscle – 8 to 12 repetitions, 3 times per week.

I have several suggestions for where you can start.

1. The Two Best Abs Exercises: http://www.abs-exercise-advice.com/best-ab-exercises.html
2. Lower Abdominal Exercises: http://www.abs-exercise-advice.com/lower-abdominal-exercises.html
3. Abdominal Ball Exercises: http://www.abs-exercise-advice.com/abdominal-ball-exercises.html

Remember the abs! They are more important that you think!

Written by Shelley Hitz, Licensed Physical Therapist and Certified NASM Personal Trainer.
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