Bucks County Personal Trainer Teaches How The Best Ab Workout Works Many Segments At Once
June 1st, 2009 Posted by: Jose Loni
The best ab workout is not about the abs. The media always bombards us, that in order to have ripped abs, we need to do endless crunches or use a machine that will target the abs. In fact, the best ab workout is doing overall body exercises that focus on increasing our metabolism, through resistance training, interval training, watching our diet and reducing our stress levels.
On the spot reduction does not work. Doing ab exercises will help strengthen our abs and help our hips and back get stronger. To get ripped abs, we must do a full body workout to burn fat. When the overall body is able to burn fat, the abs underneath the stomach fat will become visible and give you the ripped abs.
Doing multi-joint exercises with resistance helps to increase the body’s metabolism. Not only does our body become more defined and toned, but the increased muscle mass increases the metabolic activity of the body and helps burn excess body fat, which is stored in the belly.
Training with intervals also helps the body increase its metabolism. By adapting to the high intensity sets of the activity, the body must increase its metabolic activity. The increased metabolic activity causes the body to seek out and convert excess fat from the body into a consumable fuel. The increased metabolic activity has been shown to continue its fat burning well after the exercise session has ended.
Watching our diet is another effective way to help our metabolism. By eating quality food made of lean protein and complex carbohydrates, we can effectively provide our body with the calories to fuel our physical activity. Avoiding sugar, sodas and fatty foods will help us control our caloric intake and keep from taking in too many calories. When we take in too many calories, our body will convert the excess calories into fat.
Increasing the number of meals we consume throughout the day to 5-6 meals and making the meals smaller portioned, will help us maintain our energy level as well keep our blood sugar level stable.
Stress affects us by increasing the amount of Cortisol in our body. When this occurs, fat is stored in the stomach area so that it can be used as a fuel source when there is an emergency situation.
By understanding that exercising with resistance and intervals, watching our diet and reducing the stress in our lives is much more of an effective ab workout than ab exercises alone.
