Lower Ab Workouts And Exercising Anatomically

People concentrate their ab workout exercises by anatomy. Exercises are differentiated by the area that needs the most work and in most cases, it’s our stomach. Instead of being so specific and focusing just on the stomach, we should focus on our overall metabolism and do activities like multi-joint activities and interval training. In doing so, our body will streamline itself to get fit and show those rock hard abs.

So many times, we see ab machines and ab exercises that focus directly on the abs. These products claim that by using their products you will lose inches from your waist and flatten your belly. In reality, they don’t work. Spot reducing does not work.

Training just the abs, will not give you rock hard abs. Isolation exercises like ab crunches or lower abdominal strengthening will strengthen your abs, but it will not give you the definition that you want. In fact, you may not notice a physical difference from training the abs only.

To sculpt and reveal those six packs, you need to get your whole body moving and do cardio activities, which will jump-start your metabolism into burning fat continuously, allowing you to lose the fat cover around your ab muscles.

Some exercises you can do include jogging, squats, lunges, brisk walking, push-ups and even dancing. Doing these specifically trains the large muscles, which uses up more energy. The more trained these large muscles become, the more efficient they are at burning fat.

Interval and circuit program training also raises your metabolism by challenging and keeping your muscles in a constant state of readiness to perform at any time. These quick, intense bursts of exercises (for example, jumping jacks-brisk walking-sprinting-jogging) work muscles hard causing lactic acid and carbon dioxide buildup, which needs to be cleared. More oxygen needs to be supplied to the muscles to keep them going. This ongoing cycle enlarges the muscles causing them to use up more fat as fuel.

All this clearing away, replenishing of oxygen and repair work uses up a lot of energy, which the body gets from excess fat stores. Addtionally, the training enlarges the muscles, which now require more energy to fuel their new size. This all translates into an increased metabolism.

When all is said and done, do we keep doing lower ab workouts and should we really be targeting something so specific? Current research says “no” and as far as sculpting six pack abs go, it definitely makes sense to lose the fat and the flab in order to allow the six packs to show through!

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