Best Ab Workout Program
By Mike Geary - Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Specialist
Personal URL: http://truthaboutabs.com
Mike Geary - author of the best-seller
"The Truth about Six Pack Abs" The answer to the question : "What is the best ab workout for losing belly fat?" is...
None! Ab workouts don't have the power to create, by themselves, enough of a metabolic response in your body to create fat loss.
Being a nutrition specialist and a fitness professional for many years, I am often asked about the best types of exercises and workouts for losing stomach fat in order to reveal those most wanted six pack abs. The problem is that most people with excess belly fat looking uncover their abs are searching for some "miracle ab workout" that is going to burn the fat off their abs in no time.
The thing is... they are attacking the problem from the wrong angle! The truth is that you don't lose belly fat by doing ab workouts.
The problem is that focusing most of your time and effort on ab workouts to try to flatten your stomach and bring out those six pack abs is simply time wasted that could be used for correct workout programs that will actually reduce your body fat for good.
If I were to choose an answer as to what are the best exercises for losing belly fat, my answer would include full body exercises such as the following:
- various forms of squats
- lunges
- deadlifts
- clean & presses
- snatches
- swings
- presses and pulls
- mountain climbers
- sprinting, etc.
These types of full body exercises would encompass a much higher percentage of the workouts I would design instead of ab exercises directly targeting your belly section. The way you combine those full body exercises into a strategic workout that maximizes your metabolism is also very important.
Don't get me wrong... I do recommend a certain amount of exercises that directly target the abs and core, but these are only a small percentage of the workout programs I design for my clients as your time will be better spent focusing on the full body exercises that stimulate the greatest metabolic and hormonal changes within the body. In addition, a positive side-effect of concentrating mostly on full body multi-joint combo exercises is that you indirectly work your entire midsection even though you are not specifically targeting your abs.
Keep in mind that the determinant factor for losing belly fat to see your abs is actually in the nutrition arena. No matter how hard you workout, if your diet is full of junk, then your abs will be covered with ugly and unhealthy fat. Nutrition is without a doubt the "king of getting a six pack".
So let's clear this up for good...
Stop focusing on sit-ups, crunches, leg raises and all those silly worthless "ab contraptions" in your efforts to try to develop six pack abs. Instead, focus on high intensity full body lifts using combination multi-joint exercises all strategically combined into highly effective fat loss workouts. Couple that with a healthy diet and those elusive six pack abs will be yours in no time!
If you're interested in discovering more of my key strategies for getting flat sexy six pack abs for life, I invite you to visit my personal site where you can find more myth-shattering truths about weight loss programs and body workouts.
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