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Have you noticed that most people will never fail to include
abdominal muscle exercises in their routines and yet somehow or
other, they can never own that coveted 6 pack abs?
Have you been religiously doing your abdominal muscle exercises?
Is your abs showing to your satisfaction? No? Why? Do you know
that your abdominal muscle is one of the easiest muscles to
build but yet why is it that most people have difficulty 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 sought after six pack. Yes,
you do. The only trouble is that your belly fat is covering
them. Your abs will not show up 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. So if you have fat on
your belly, forget about abdominal exercises and burn off the
fats first.
There is another reason why people put in so much effort to
develop their abdominal muscle and yet their abs are not showing
although they have low body fat. Again, there is a simple
explanation. They are doing the wrong exercises and working out
in bad form.
Let's take for example the most common abs exercises, the sit up
and the leg raisers. Everybody seem to be doing these two
exercises not knowing that these exercises really don't do much
for their abs. Don't believe me? Ok...try this. When 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. Tell me what
did you feel? Ahhh....you are getting it. Those muscles there
are doing most of the work. Those are your hip flexor muscles.
Since your hip flexors are doing most of the work, how can you
develop your abs effectively?
So you say, from now on I will do crunches instead. Well, I have
another surprise for you. Most people perform their crunches
wrongly too. Think about it. Why is the exercise called the
"crunch"? It is because you must squeeze your abs so are that
you are crunching them. In order to squeeze your abs hard, you
have to curl up like a prawn and breath out all 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 can't do this effectively if you just go up,
down, up down, up down rhythmetically. So, if you have been
doing hundreds of crunches everyday with minimal result, now you
know why. In fact, it is almost 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 perform your workout in
correct form. You will then see your 6 pack abdominal muscle in
no time.
About the author:
Chris Chew is a personal trainer of actors, male pageant
winners, fashion models and other celebs. More free fitness tips
on his websites at http://www.sgfitness.com and
http://www.sgfitnessonline.com
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