Reveal Your Six Pack Abs!

You work so hard doing crunches, leg raises, V-sits, planks, sit up, etc., ect. but your abs are nowhere to be found! You should be totally ripped by now, what happened?!? You will not see a thing until you get rid of your belly fat and to get rid of your belly fat, you have to get rid of all your fat. To reveal your six pack abs you have to lower you overall bodyfat% by atleast a couple notches. There is no such thing as spot reduction and it just so happens that your belly is one of the hardest places to lose fat from.

To lose this fat, you need to start doing some cardio. The best kind of cardio bar-non is high intensity interval training. To do HIIT, you do intervals of high intensity exercise(usually sprints) spaced apart by rest or less intense exercise. The point of these intervals is to put out a maximum effort so it is pointless to do an interval lasting much longer than 2 minutes. Your spacing should be short as well, giving you just enough recovery time to make it through the next interval.

This kind of training is very effective because it has both short-term and long-term effects. In the short term, you both burn a ton of calories on the spot and continue burning calories rapidly for the next couple hours as your metabolism slowly settles down from the stress of the intensity. In the long term, your metabolism becomes more efficient to compensate for the extreme demand you put on it in these training sessions, leading to passive fat loss.

On top of cardio, you should also be making use of general weight training. You should be training your whole body; every muscle you can build up is an opportunity to burn more fat. This is because just by existing, muscles require a constant supply of energy in the form of calories, greatly boosting your metabolism and burning fat faster than ever!

The best way to train muscles is to use exercises that you can only do 8-12 times in one set. Do these exercises to just 1-2 reps shy of failure with your sets spaced apart by no more than a minute thirty seconds. If you do it right and with intensity, you should need no more than 3 separate exercises to work a single muscle group completely.

It really is that simple to lose weight in your belly and/or your thighs;the two major problem areas. All you have to do is get started and never stop!

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