If there is one mistake that most gym lovers make, it is spending too long looking for an over complicated answer explaining how to get abs, when in fact the truth is a lot easier to digest. There are three major mistakes generally made here.
If you have ambitions of achieving a solid six pack, you need to cover these three bases first:
1. Hit all the muscles in your midsection properly.
2. Ignore those who over-train their abs, this leads nowhere.
3. Contract the muscle in the same way you would squeeze your biceps at the top of a curl. Feel it.
It is surprising how many individuals cannot tick all three of the boxes above. In fact, the first one throws an awful lot of people a curve ball. If you were to ask a thousand gym members which abs exercises they did as part of their routine, you would probably hear the same answers again and again. Crunches, sit ups, weighted crunches, and so on. But they are neglecting several key areas of their midsection with this approach.
They are skipping their lower abs and obliques - the small muscles down the side of the stomach. If you only hit the top two, you'll only develop the top two.
If you want to get an appealing, well developed abdominal area then try today's full workout:
1. Crunches x 20
2. Leg raise with swiss ball held between your ankles x 20
3. Straight-leg crunches x 20
Perform each exercise straight after the last, as a circuit, without any rest. After you have reached the end of the third exercise you should rest for around two minutes before beginning again. See if you can achieve 5 rounds of this.
This will allow you to individually focus on the three key areas to a stronger abdominal region, but you can significantly increase fat loss by keeping the intensity level set at a high pace.
It is very easy to get caught up in bland, boring workouts for muscles which do not provide the same ego-boosting stimulus as biceps, chest and shoulders. This is why many men neglect training their legs and do very dull midsection workouts, but the fact is any muscle needs a reason to develop. If you keep hitting it with a boring, easy workout then it won't force itself to change.
While today's workout is most certainly a tough one, it does return results. If you are trying to learn how to get abs the number one rule is to adapt your program to ensure you are hitting every single muscle in the target area, rather than just doing the basic, most popular exercise. Should you train abs with weight? This is not really necessary if you are hitting the area effectively already. If you can do that, then you will see positive results in any muscle group.
If you have ambitions of achieving a solid six pack, you need to cover these three bases first:
1. Hit all the muscles in your midsection properly.
2. Ignore those who over-train their abs, this leads nowhere.
3. Contract the muscle in the same way you would squeeze your biceps at the top of a curl. Feel it.
It is surprising how many individuals cannot tick all three of the boxes above. In fact, the first one throws an awful lot of people a curve ball. If you were to ask a thousand gym members which abs exercises they did as part of their routine, you would probably hear the same answers again and again. Crunches, sit ups, weighted crunches, and so on. But they are neglecting several key areas of their midsection with this approach.
They are skipping their lower abs and obliques - the small muscles down the side of the stomach. If you only hit the top two, you'll only develop the top two.
If you want to get an appealing, well developed abdominal area then try today's full workout:
1. Crunches x 20
2. Leg raise with swiss ball held between your ankles x 20
3. Straight-leg crunches x 20
Perform each exercise straight after the last, as a circuit, without any rest. After you have reached the end of the third exercise you should rest for around two minutes before beginning again. See if you can achieve 5 rounds of this.
This will allow you to individually focus on the three key areas to a stronger abdominal region, but you can significantly increase fat loss by keeping the intensity level set at a high pace.
It is very easy to get caught up in bland, boring workouts for muscles which do not provide the same ego-boosting stimulus as biceps, chest and shoulders. This is why many men neglect training their legs and do very dull midsection workouts, but the fact is any muscle needs a reason to develop. If you keep hitting it with a boring, easy workout then it won't force itself to change.
While today's workout is most certainly a tough one, it does return results. If you are trying to learn how to get abs the number one rule is to adapt your program to ensure you are hitting every single muscle in the target area, rather than just doing the basic, most popular exercise. Should you train abs with weight? This is not really necessary if you are hitting the area effectively already. If you can do that, then you will see positive results in any muscle group.
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About the author: You can discover how to get abs by watching the complete workout clip from Russ Howe PTI. Russ is a TV-featured trainer who answers popular gym myths such as should you train abs with weight and more on his free personal training blog each week.
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