Truth about 6 Pack Abs - Top 3 Secrets

How much have you money and time have you spend on different type of ab belts, twister, flex belts? And what kind of results have you gotten? If not, are you wondering why you still can’t lose the belly fat or get the 6 pack abs you have been dreaming of?

First, let me ask one thing. When you do push-ups and chest fly, do you expect to make your chest muscle smaller, or larger? The ab muscle is the same as any other muscle groups, you can train them to make them stronger and more toned, but it’s literally scientifically impossible to “spot reduce” any section of your body. That’s a myth have been busted over and over again. Everybody has 6 pack abs. In fact, most people love them so much that they put a layer of protective fat to cover them!

You may see claims on tv that certain automatic ab flexing belts sending electric pulse will make your ab muscle do the work automatically, like doing sit-ups for you. Sounds pretty amazing right? Well, even if the claims are true, crunches and sit-ups are some of the LEAST EFFECTIVE exercise to lose belly fat at the first place. And here is why:

If you want to lose belly fat, you have to burn a certain amount of calories and fat. To be exact, to burn 1 pound of fat required 3500 calories. Doing crunches or using ab flexing belts uses the ab muscles only, which burns very small amount of calories at the first place. Studies have shown that doing 50 sit-ups burns about 10 calories. If you do that math, that’s 17,500 sit-ups just to lose 1 pound of fat!

HOLY CRAP! THAT’S A LOT OF SIT-UPS! WHAT DO I DO?

SECRET # 1: BURN FAT WITH MULTIPLE MUSCLE GROUPS 

Well, the good thing is that we are all born with other large muscle groups that burn more calories, such as your legs, your back, chest, etc. And, if you workout the smart and efficient way, you can work multiple muscles simultaneously, which guess what? BURNS MORE FAT! So, if your primary goal is to lose weight and get fit, unless you have hours to spend at the gym every single day, we highly recommend you work multiple muscle groups simultaneously, versus isolated muscle training.

SECRET #2: FOCUS ON CALORIES BURNED AFTER THE WORKOUT 

You burn calories 24/7, so why be so obsessed with how many calories you burned during your exercise? It’s been clinically proven that shorter burst of high intensity exercise (HIIT) triggers the phenomenon called the EPOC (Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption), or more commonly known as the Afterburn Effect, which basically means your body continues to burn more calories and fat for hours and hours after the workout. So, for example, if you do cardio exercise for 60 minutes and burn 500 calories, the Afterburn Effects stops immediately. You burn 500 calories total. On the other hand, if you do a high intensity interval workout for the same 60 minutes and burn 500 calories, then you burn an additional 400 calories in the next 48 hours after the workout, you would then burn a total of 900 calories!

SECRET # 3 ABS ARE MADE IN THE KITCHEN 

Now that you know how to workout the smart and efficient way, you gotta eat the same way too. If your diet is poor, then your weight loss progress is going to be poor. A proper diet is critical to your success in getting the 6 pack abs, but noticed that we place diet below the 2 workout secrets. The reason is that “diet alone” is a known receipt for failure. Many people focus on dieting without exercise by consuming very little amount of calories. The problem with that is your metabolism actually slows down, so even if you consume less calories from dieting, you also burn less calories per day. What’s even worse is that extended time of starving makes your body go into “survival mode”, which then the instinct is to “STORE FAT”.

 A smart diet & nutrition guide should be easy to follow, and more importantly sensible and achievable on a long term basis. We recommend eating at least 5 meals per day, at smaller portions. Focus on eating “clean” and natural food that are high in fiber and protein, which further help speed up metabolism and burn fat. Eating a proper amount of fat is ok. We are not telling you to fill up with burgers and fries, but eating good fat such as olive oil, almonds, walnuts, etc are great for you joints and keeping you full.

The truth is that to have any “visible” evidence of 6 pack abs, you need to cut down your overall body fat percentage, to about 8%. That might sounds daunting to many of us, but many people are able to achieve that within a few months, by doing the right way of exercising and dieting. And yes, you have to do all three. But the good thing is that you really don’t need fancy equipment, and spending tons of money on supplement and protein power, etc. Continue your training with WorkoutBuddyX.com, and you will get noticeable results. We’d love to hear from your experience in getting the 6 pack abs. Please feel free to provide additional comments below.