Get rid of Your Belly Fat And Show Off Your 6-pack Abs

Have you noticed that most people will never fail to include abdominal muscle exercises in their workout routines and yet somehow or other, they can't ever own that sought after 6 pack abs?

Have you been religiously doing your abdominal muscle exercises? Is your abs showing to your satisfaction? No? Why? Are you aware that your abdominal muscle is one of the simplest muscles to build but yet why is it that most people have trouble in developing that 6 pack abs?

Here is the truth. Those of you who are working out your abs regularly do probably own that much desired six pack. Yes, you do. The sole trouble is that your belly fat is covering them. Your abs won't show up very well if you have a body fat ratio of more than 12%. The more fat you burn off, the more defined your abs will be. You will own that rippling washboard abs when your body fat is 10% or less. Therefore if you have fat on your belly, just forget about abdominal exercises and burn off the fats first.

There's another reason why people devote so much effort to develop their abdominal muscle and yet their abs aren't showing although they have low body fat. Once more, there is a simple explanation. They are doing the wrong exercises and working out in bad form.

Let us take for example the most typical abs exercises, the sit up and the leg raisers. Everybody seem to be doing these 2 exercises not knowing that these exercises truly don't do much for their abs. Don't believe me? Ok...try this. Whenever you do your sit up or leg raisers, place your palms on your hip on the area connecting to your thigh and perform the exercises. Let me know what did you feel? Ahhh....you are getting it. Those muscles there are doing the majority of the work. Those are your hip flexor muscles. Because your hip flexors are doing most of the work, how can you develop your abs effectively?

So you say, from now on I'll do crunches instead. Well, I have another big surprise for you. Most people perform their crunches wrongly too. Think it over. Why is the exercise known as the "crunch"? It is because you must squeeze your abs in order that you are crunching them. So that you can squeeze your abs hard, you have to curl up like a prawn and breath out all of the air in your lungs at the top position and then squeeeeeeeze the muscles so hard that you feel a burn. That will take a few seconds to crunch out all the air before you lower to the beginning position again. You cannot do this effectively if you simply go up, down, up down, up down rhythmetically. So, if you've been doing hundreds of crunches everyday with nominal result, now you know why. Actually, it is nearly impossible for the average guy to do tens of properly performed crunches and not to say hundreds of them. The same squeezing principle applies to other abs exercises.

Ok....now that you know why your abs are not showing up well, so get on with burning your fats and execute your workout in correct form. You'll then see your 6 pack abdominal muscle before you know it.

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