Sexy Abs For Summer

Sexy abs are the focal point of almost everyone who starts a weight loss program.

We judge our fat loss results and our overall fitness with the conditioning of our core.

Sexy abs equals sexy. Period..

And summer is rolling around fast so if your core isn’t a set of 6 pack abs it’s time to get with the program.

One of the biggest mistakes most people make is focusing too much on ab exercises.

Sure, you need to work your abs but not to the neglect of your overall fitness program.

No matter how many ab exercises you do, it won’t matter if the rest of your program doesn’t help you build muscle and burn away body fat.

You could have the strongest abs in your neighborhood but if they’re covered in an ugly layer of body fat, does it really matter?

If you want hard abs, you need to burn fat so those abs can be seen.

You MUST focus on your other muscles even if your goal is six pack abs.

This will help you in numerous ways such as:

Keeping your body in balance. This isn’t just about looks. An imbalanced physique is an injury waiting to happen.

For example, if you focus on getting those ribbed abs by doing tons of ab exercises and neglecting your lower back, you’ll develop an imbalance between these two opposing muscle groups and before you know it you’ll be walking around like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Not good.

By training your large muscle groups, you’ll burn more calories in your workout than you would just doing abs (where you’ll barely burn any calories).

Burning more calories helps burn fat. The less body fat, the better your abs will look.

Many other exercises also work the abs pretty hard since your core stabilizes you during exercises like:

Squats
Deadlifts
Heavy Tricep Pressdowns
Seated Shoulder Presses

And others. Your abs work hard on all these exercises.

Unless you are taking a planned break or back cycling with an easy week of workouts, always look ton increase the intensity by doing more reps, heavier weight, or getting more work done in less time.

This includes your ab exercises. You don’t need to do endless sets of hundreds of reps.

Instead, add weighted resistance and keep your reps in the 12 – 25 range most of the time.

The abs are a muscle just like the legs, chest, back, etc. Work them like a muscle.

The most important key to ripped abs is shedding the flab.

This means proper nutrition, intense weight training workouts and high intensity cardio training.

Here’s a sample program for sexy abs and a lean, fit, sexy body.

This program is a whole body workout routine that you can do two to three times per week (depending on how much high intensity cardio you are doing as part of your program).

Squat 2 x 12 – 15
Deadlift 1 x 15
Lunge 2 x 10
Decline Bench Press – 2 x 10
Seated Dumbbell Press – 1 x 10
Close Grip Decline Bench Press – 1 x 10
Incline Dumbbell Curl – 1 x 10
Weighted Crunches – 2 x 15
Reverse Crunch – 2 x 12
Plank – 1 hold of 30 – 60 seconds

Follow a proper nutrition plan, do your high intensity cardio, kick butt on a solid weight training program and you’ll be showing off your sexy abs in no time flat.

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.