Ab exercises, the long road to achieving ripped abs, actually cause imbalances in the muscles and potential injury. A better, more effective way to getting visible, toned abs is by increasing our metabolism and practicing diet discipline.
It has always been thought that ab exercises are key to achieving six pack abs. However, exercises like crunches, core movements and sit-ups train mostly the hip flexor muscles instead of the abdominal muscles, leading to muscle imbalances. Other exercises place us in odd, awkward back positions that may cause potential injury.
Doing ab exercises will not give us ripped abs. Instead, we must increase our metabolism by doing resistance and interval training, as they have been shown to yield excellent fat burning results.
Resistance and interval training exercises increase lean body mass. Consequently, more muscles mean more energy required to fuel those muscles and so more excess body fat, especially from the stomach area, will then be used as an energy source.
A beneficial side effect of interval and resistance training is an increase in metabolism, which allows for extended fat burning even several hours after the training session.
Healthy eating means our body is being fuelled by good quality foods like lean proteins and complex carbohydrates (not sweets, sodas, fatty and fast foods), that allow for efficient burning of calories, therefore little or no excess calories are stored as fat in our stomach areas.
Eating smaller portion meals and increasing the number of meals we eat per day to 5-6 meals, will help us stabilize our blood sugar levels and help maintain our energy throughout the day. This way we will have enough energy to burn as well as optimize how our body will burn excess body fat.
Ab exercises may be hurting your six pack ab results so the best way to avoid muscle imbalances and injuries and to achieve ripped abs is to increase metabolism through interval and resistance training and to practice healthy eating. - 16752
It has always been thought that ab exercises are key to achieving six pack abs. However, exercises like crunches, core movements and sit-ups train mostly the hip flexor muscles instead of the abdominal muscles, leading to muscle imbalances. Other exercises place us in odd, awkward back positions that may cause potential injury.
Doing ab exercises will not give us ripped abs. Instead, we must increase our metabolism by doing resistance and interval training, as they have been shown to yield excellent fat burning results.
Resistance and interval training exercises increase lean body mass. Consequently, more muscles mean more energy required to fuel those muscles and so more excess body fat, especially from the stomach area, will then be used as an energy source.
A beneficial side effect of interval and resistance training is an increase in metabolism, which allows for extended fat burning even several hours after the training session.
Healthy eating means our body is being fuelled by good quality foods like lean proteins and complex carbohydrates (not sweets, sodas, fatty and fast foods), that allow for efficient burning of calories, therefore little or no excess calories are stored as fat in our stomach areas.
Eating smaller portion meals and increasing the number of meals we eat per day to 5-6 meals, will help us stabilize our blood sugar levels and help maintain our energy throughout the day. This way we will have enough energy to burn as well as optimize how our body will burn excess body fat.
Ab exercises may be hurting your six pack ab results so the best way to avoid muscle imbalances and injuries and to achieve ripped abs is to increase metabolism through interval and resistance training and to practice healthy eating. - 16752
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