Friday, March 20, 2009

3 Tips for Six Pack Abs

By Richard Black

The way your stomach looks tends to reflect very highly on your overall health and how much you care about your wellness and physical appearance. There are a number of skinny people that are generally unhealthy, and that is shown to the public by their abs, which tend to not be fit. That is why six pack abs are so important to people - they give the impression that you are a healthy specimen, one that cares about both his appearance as well as his health.

But getting six pack abs can be difficult for many people. Even those that generally care about their health tend to drink beer or fattening foods, and that is most immediately apparent in the stomach, where flab can grow at a rapid pace. Even those that do not eat unhealthy sometimes have a problem performing the workouts that they need to due to back pain concerns that result from the exercises.

If you want to get six pack abs, you need to make sure that you are following a set regimen designed at targeting the abs area. There are three tips on how to do this:

1) Exercise Choice is Important

Choosing which exercise you wish to do is vitally important towards whether or not you will be able to get six pack abs. There are two things to consider: Which exercise is the most effective, and which is an exercise that is comfortable enough that you will stick with it.

The bicycle crunch is the most effective abdominal workout, for example, but if you perform the bicycle crunch and decide you do not like it very much, it is very likely that you will quit doing it in the near future and be unable to get the six pack abs. That is why commitment is so important, and you are only going to commit to exercises that you find comfortable.

2) Target Both the Abs and Obliques

The oblique muscles, or "love handles," may not be the abs themselves. However, if your oblique muscles aren't fit, you are going to have a hard time seeing the abs that you have created with your workout. Six pack abs are not just about improving the muscles in that area - it is also about being able to see them because they are clear cut and defined, and the only way to do this is to also exercise the obliques.

3) Cardio Workouts Help

Also, consider taking up some type of cardio routine, either by running or using an exercise bike. Ab workouts are incredibly important towards building up six pack abs, but cardio workouts help ensure that your metabolism stays high and that you are able to burn calories, and much like performing exercises that affect the obliques, if you are unable to lose fat all over your body (especially in your stomach area) you are going to have a very difficult time seeing the results.

By performing those three tips, you should be able to see six pack abs in as little as a month. They all take commitment, but if six pack abs were easy, we would all have them already.

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