Tuesday, March 11, 2008

What are the best abdominal exercises to lose that spare tire?

The answer to the age-old question of "What are the best abdominal exercises to lose that spare tire?" is...

None!
Abdominal exercises alone won't create enough metabolic response in your body to ensure fat loss.
As a fitness professional, trainer, and diet specialist, I'm often asked what the best exercises and workouts are for losing annoying stomach fat in order to bring out wicked six pack abs. The problem most people face with excess stomach fat is that they are looking to try to reveal their abs by searching for some "miracle ab exercise" that is going to melt the fat off their abdominals instantly.

The problem is... they are going about this the entirely wrong way!

The truth is that you don't lose abdominal fat by doing abdominal exercise.

Focusing all of your effort on ab exercises and abdominal workouts to try to flatten your stomach and bring out 6-pack abs is simply robbing you of your time from doing the correct workout programs that will acutally lower your body fat for life.


These types of whole body workouts encompass a much higher percentage of the workouts I would do instead of abdominal-only exercises directly targeting the core. How you mix these whole body exercises into a purposeful workout that maximizes your metabolism is vitally important.

Don't take that the wrong way now. I encourage a certain amount of exercises that directly target the abdominals and the core, but these are only a small portion of the programs I create for my clients as your time is far better invested focusing on the full body exercises that stimulate the biggest hormonal and metabolic changes inside your body. Whats more, a side-benefit of working out using mostly whole body multi-joint combo workouts are that you indirectly work out your whole midsection even while you are not specifically isolating your abdominals.

Bear in mind that the most important factor of shedding that spare tire to see your abs is actually in the nutrition arena. It flat out does not matter how hard you work out if your diet is full of junk. If your diet is full of junk then your abs will be covered with an ugly spare tire.

Diet and Nutrition is without a doubt the "king of getting a six pack".

So let's make this super clear...

Stop wasting all of your effort limiting yourself to situps, crunches, leg raises, and all those silly worthless "abdominal machines" in trying to develop 6-pack abs. Focus instead on high intensity whole body lifts using combination multi-joint exercises all purposefully combined into highly effective fat loss workouts. Pair that with a nutritional diet full of natural unprocessed whole foods that are as close to their natural state as possible, and those elusive six-pack abdominals will yours in no time flat!

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