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Sep 02
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A weak six pack workout will ultimately destroy your quest for lean abs. This workout is not about what you think it is though. Finally, it is possible to stop wasting your efforts and start getting the abs you’ve always dreamt of.
First, calorie burning is the goal of your six pack workout. If you do not have six pack abs, it is more than likely due to your body fat percentage being too high.
Your heart should be beating rapidly in your workout. If it isn’t, you need to change something. You can either raise the pace of the individual exercises, or decrease the cool-down between exercises to achieve this end. You ought to be sweating profusely by the end of your workout.
Next, your direct abdominal work should have one of two focuses, muscle gain or muscle maintenance. You should be in the low to mid rep range. Ten to twenty reps per set per exercise should be solid for abdominal work. Generally anything over 20 reps is viewed as endurance training, which does little good for appearances. If what you’re doing isn’t enough of a challenge, add weight to it. The normal ways to add resistance to freestyle ab workouts are to hold it on your chest, behind your head, or over your head. Lower ab exercises take this addition by holding the weight between your feet.
The third problem is lack of consistency. I don’t mean consistency in the exercises themselves, but in staying with your six pack workouts at least a few times per week every week.
By not having a schedule like this, you will either never gain any momentum or lose it all. Lack of workouts on a regular basis may cost you the balance of calories needed to lose body fat. It is not missing a single workout that’s a problem in and of itself, but what missing that workout often leads to.
Not ready to scrap your old six pack workout? Learn five simple ways you can improve your existing six pack workout (and do not forget to grab your free report on 27 ways to increase your metabolism).
