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Don’t Be Scammed By 8 Minute Abs

By admin | August 4, 2008

6 Minute Abs, 8 Minute Abs, and on it goes.

I’m sure you’ve seen and heard about all the ways to get great abs with various pieces of ab equipment and magical ab exercise routines.

I think I’ve even seen 30 second abs.

So what’s the deal? Can you really get 6 pack abs from these routines?

Well, yes and no.

Let me explain.

It’s definitely true that you really don’t need much ab training at all to get great abs.

What none of these magical routines or ab equipment promoters tell you is that these aren’t the key to getting great abs.

The key to 6 pack abs is your overall training and nutrition program.

Most people have abs, they are just carrying too much body fat for anyone to see them.

One of the big myths of ab training is spot reducing. Many people have the mindset of wanting to lose their flabby belly and nothing else.

They aren’t worried about their arms, or back or legs so they embark on a program heavy on crunches and light on everything else.

This type of spot reducing ab program won’t work.

Endless crunches will not melt away the fat from your midsection. It just doesn’t work that way.

And despite the “burn” of high rep ab exercises, you barely burn any calories while doing those endless crunches.

Your fat burning time is best spent elsewhere on more effective training.

High rep crunches don’t work the ab muscle intensely enough to develop it, which is what you need to do.

If you want to develop a flat stomach with your abs visible, you need to treat your abs like a muscle and train that way.

And you need to strip away the fat with a proper training and nutrition program designed around total fat loss, not trying to spot reduce through endless crunches.

Here are four more ab training myths you need to be aware of so you can develop an effective ab training routine that gives you results.

Training your abs consistently will eventually give you the flat stomach or six pack that you want.

No. It’s not gonna happen if your abs are covered by a layer of body fat and doing endless sets of ab exercises is not the way to rid yourself of that excess body fat.

Train your abs everyday for best results.

Again, no. Your abs are a muscle, just like your chest, lats, arms and so on.

You should train your abs just like these other muscles, with progressive resistance and high intensity - then allow them to rest and recover.

Never train your abs more than 3 or 4 days a week.

I know I’ve mentioned this a few times already and that’s because it’s extremely important and too many people don’t make the connection.

You need to do hundreds or reps and feel the burn to get great abs.

Again the answer is no. The abs are a muscle just like I mentioned above.

To get six pack abs you need to strip off the fat, but you also need to build the abs to get them to really pop out.

If the muscle isn’t developed, you’ll just have a flat stomach but no abs.

The name of the game is progressive resistance for sets of 8 - 25 reps, just like your other muscles.

This also helps to prevent injuries. If you weight train with exercises like squats and deadlifts, you’re strengthening your lower back with heavy resistance.

If you don’t do the same for your abs, you’ll develop a muscle imbalance in your core, which could lead to injury.

Train the abs with lots of sets and high reps to burn off stomach fat.

You guessed it. This is also false. Spot reduction just isn’t going to happen as much as we’d all like it to.

You can’t burn fat on your stomach by doing endless crunches.

All the pieces of your routine must fit together.

You need to put together a proper weight lifting program, nutrition plan, and cardio plan in order to rid your stomach of that stubborn layer of fat and bring out your abs.

And you need to train your abs like the muscle it is, with progressive resistance, in order to be able to see those abs once you’re melted the layer of fat away.

Eliminate these ab training myths from your routine will take you a long way toward finally getting the abs you know you deserve.

Stop being frustrated by a lack of progress and start seeing results!

If you really want to succeed with your fitness program and learn more about how to get sexy abs and a lean, flat stomach check out the following information.