Saturday, January 24, 2009

How To Get Abs Faster Than Your Friends

By Robert Casewood

Most people that shell-out their hard-earned funds on expensive ab machines and products touted to produce a six-pack "in no time" learn a painful lesson soon after. They find out too late that a lot if not all of these are just tools to take advantage of society's demand for faster washboard abs.

The human body is designed to store surplus energy from food in the form of fat cells. These are stored mainly around our lower body- our bellies, butts and thighs. This is the main reason eliminating beer bellies and love-handles have been a source of consternation for fitness aficionados since the early days of bodybuilding.

In fact, the muscles around our midsection aren't any harder to develop than say, the chest or the biceps. It just seems that way because belly fat is the most stubborn- always the last to go because of the body's predisposition to store excess fat there.

Doing the proper combination of exercises optimal for burning body fat as well as adopting healthy eating habits are the real secrets to getting six-pack abs in the shortest amount of time. The key word in the fight against The Flab is metabolism.

Hitting the abdominal machine at home or in your gym and doing a gazillion reps won't do you much good if you don't incorporate total body cardio exercises in your workouts. Not even if you combine this with limiting your calorie intake which can actually result in muscle-loss.

Fitness experts specializing in fat-loss all agree that incorporating total body cardio exercises into regular weight-training is the best workout scheme optimal for burning body fat. Remember that loss of body fat means less belly fat ergo, sexy six pack abs.

Another way to accelerate belly fat burn is to compliment your workout regimen with healthy eating habits. Timing your consumption of the different food types (proteins, carbs, etc.) can aid the body's ability to absorb nutrients and keep it from packing on the pounds from body fat.

A lot of people have the notion that cutting-back on food intake by skipping meals is the fastest way to lose weight and flatten the tummy. This can in fact be detrimental to losing belly fat because the human body purposely slows down metabolism in order to conserve calories when we start to go hungry. It's actually better to avoid from going hungry and eating just enough whenever we feel like it. - 20897

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