Crunches Should Be Eliminated

Posted By Jose Loni
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by Jose Loni

When it comes to the topic of six pack abs, crunches need to be discussed. The discussion on crunches should inform people that crunches are not effective to achieve six pack abs. Focusing on what we eat, helping our metabolism to burn faster and managing our stress will help us achieve six pack abs.

Doing crunches develops different areas of the lower back and abs. Actually, some crunches train the hip flexors instead of the abs. Focusing on doing crunches may create imbalances in our back and, consequently, cause back pain.

Achieving six pack abs requires eating a balanced diet of carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, fat, and minerals. By eating small, frequent (5-6) meals a day, we can avoid causing spikes in our blood sugar level and keep our energy levels constant.

Increasing our metabolism can be done through resistance training. By increasing our muscle mass, we can affect our metabolism by increasing our muscle’s metabolic activity. In doing so, our body will be better able to utilize the excess body fat and convert that into fuel.

Interval training also increases our metabolism. Due to the increased demands of the interval training exercises, more lean body mass is built. This causes an increase in overall fat burning capacity in order to fuel increased activity levels.

Stress has been shown to increase the amount of fat stored in our stomach area. During stress, our body releases the hormone Cortisol, which causes fat to be stored in our stomach area. The excess fat is kept there for the body to use when there is an emergency.

There are many ways that we can reduce stress. Activities such as deep breathing, relaxation techniques, yoga and tai chi have shown to be effective at reducing stress in our body.

Since crunches do not work for six pack abs, we must focus on overall dietary changes, increase our metabolism and reduce stress in our lives to get lean, visible and toned abs.

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Ab Exercises - The Long Road

Posted By Jose Loni
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The truth is, doing ab exercises may actually be hurting your six-pack ab results, therefore, instead of solely doing ab exercises, we must rev up our metabolism and stick with healthy eating to get ripped abs.

Ab exercises have always been promoted as the best way to achieve ripped abs. Many different types of crunches, sit-ups and core exercises, mostly utilize and recruit the hip flexor muscles rather than the abdominal muscle group, which can cause muscle imbalances. Some ab exercises position the back in an awkward position, which can cause injury.

Ab exercises don’t have any effect on having ripped abs. To have ripped abs, we need to increase our metabolism. Resistance training as well as interval training have produced very quick results when it comes to burning fat.

Interval and resistance training demands our muscles to work more and harder. Consequently, our muscles will need more fuel to be able to work and our body then looks for excess fat, usually in the stomach area, as extra fuel to burn.

A beneficial side effect of interval and resistance training is an increase in metabolism, which allows for extended fat burning even several hours after the training session.

Healthy eating means our body is being fuelled by good quality foods like lean proteins and complex carbohydrates (not sweets, sodas, fatty and fast foods), that allow for efficient burning of calories, therefore little or no excess calories are stored as fat in our stomach areas.

Consuming small, frequent meals around 5-6 times throughout the day prevents our blood sugar levels from going up and down too much. As a result, we remain energetic and manage to maximize excess body fat burning.

Ab exercises may be hurting your six pack ab results so the best way to avoid muscle imbalances and injuries and to achieve ripped abs is to increase metabolism through interval and resistance training and to practice healthy eating.

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Ab Exercises - The Truth

Posted By Kareem Samhouri, DPT
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The topic of ab exercises should be discussed. Television and media bombards us with countless ab exercises and ab machines, each claiming to give you six pack abs. This topic needs to be discussed so that the consumer will understand what they really need to do to get six pack abs. To achieve six pack abs we need to focus on exercises and dietary adjustments to help increase our metabolism. When we increase our overall metabolism, that will burn the necessary fat that will allow for our six-pack abs to become visible.

Increasing our energy expenditure so that it is greater than our caloric intake allows our bodies to utilize our fat as an energy source. When that occurs, it will burn the fat that is stored in our belly.

Doing multi-joint exercises and resistance training increases our metabolism. We increase our lean body mass as a result of the increased training. When this occurs, our muscles increase their metabolic activity and require more fuel to burn.

Interval training has been effective in increasing the body’s metabolism. The anaerobic component of the training forces the body to adapt to the increased demands of the activity, which results in increased muscle mass. The increased muscle mass has an increased metabolic activity and continues to burn fat for several hours after the exercise activity.

Diet also needs to be changed to help increase the body’s metabolism. By eating a diet of quality foods made up of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals, we enable our bodies to utilize these foods as energy.

In addition, by increasing the number of meals we eat per day to 5-6 times and decreasing the portion sizes, we are better able to maintain our energy throughout the day and help maintain our blood sugar levels.

Increasing our energy expenditure and at the same time monitoring and decreasing our food intake, we can help our body to use the excess fat that we have as a fuel source.

The truth about ab exercises is that in order to get ripped abs, we need to watch what we eat and increase our overall activity levels. By stimulating our metabolism through interval training, we can help our body to be more efficient at burning excess belly fat and help us achieve ripped abs.

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How to Lose Your Belly Fat

Posted By Jose Loni
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Lose your belly fat the easy way. Losing belly fat has never been easier. By following some simple principles of diet, exercise and stress management, you will achieve the goal of losing your belly fat.

The quality of the food we eat is very important. We should avoid processed foods, fast foods, high fat and high sugar foods. Also, we should not over eat and consume too many calories. When we consume too many calories and are unable to use up those calories, our bodies turn that food into fat and store it as belly fat.

We must match our food intake with our energy expenditure. Basically, we should decrease our meal portions and spread out the number of meals throughout the day, eating 5-6 times per day.

Increasing our physical activity as well as decreasing the amount of food we eat, will help you lose your belly fat. Our bodies can use the stored fat to fuel our muscles during activity.

Exercise activity such as resistance training, has shown to increase the body’s metabolism. When we increase our metabolic activity, our body is better able to utilize excess belly fat and convert it as fuel for the body to use.

Decreasing the amount of stress in our lives will help you lose your belly fat. Stress causes the production of a hormone called Cortisol, which has been linked to fat accumulation in the belly area during periods of stress.

Various stress management exercises like meditation, tai chi, deep breathing are just some examples that people can do to decrease their stress levels.

Diet, exercise and lowering our stress levels are simple ways as to how you can lose your belly fat. By committing to change how we eat, exercise, and decreasing the amount of stress in our lives, you will be better able to lose your belly fat.

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Crunches - The Truth

Posted By Jose Loni
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Lately, the controversial question is, are crunches bad for six pack abs. No, they are not bad for six pack abs, but if your goal is to attain visible six-pack abs, then you need to focus on other aspects of exercise and diet. Concentrating on resistance exercises that increase our metabolism to burn fat, monitoring our diet and reducing the amount of stress in our lives.

Crunches are not necessarily bad for six pack abs. In fact, crunches are good exercises to strengthen, stabilize and develop our abdominal muscles. But to achieve six pack abs, we need to focus on overall fat burning activities.

Exercises that have a fat burning effect are overall exercises that help increase our metabolism, which allows body fat to be burned. The increased metabolism rids the body of excess fat in our abdominal region, when this occurs, the six-pack abs under the fat will become more visible.

Lean body mass is increased as a result of resistance training. The increased muscle mass increases metabolic activity and helps the body burn more fat, which is required to fuel increased activity.

Watching what we eat is also an important aspect of achieving six pack abs. By increasing the frequency of our meals to 5-6 per day and reducing the portions of each meal, we allow our body to maintain our energy levels throughout the day and maintain our blood sugar. Being aware of eating foods, which consist of carbohydrates, fat, minerals, vitamins and proteins will help us get our six-pack abs.

Stress affects our bodies in a way that makes our bodies react in an emergency mode. When our bodies are in a stressful situation, Cortisol is released and causes fat to be stored in the abdominal area.

There are activities that are effective in reducing our stress. Activities like yoga, tai chi and deep breathing have all been shown to decrease stress in people.

Six pack abs are not a direct result of doing crunches. In fact, it may be stopping you from getting six pack abs. We should focus on overall fat burning activities like resistance training, watching our diet, and reducing the stress in our lives. Understanding these facts and being disciplined to change can achieve your goal of getting six pack abs.

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