The quality of your six pack workout can make or break your quest for amazing abs. Most people have their focus in this workout all wrong though. Today we’ll cover the common mistakes and how you can get back on track to get your six pack.
The first priority of your six pack workout must be to burn calories. A high body fat percentage is the main reason that someone doesn’t have six pack abs. Almost never is it about lack of muscle.
Your heart should be beating rapidly in your workout. If it isn’t, you need to change something. For the physics explanation of how to do this, you simply increase the work you do. Work is defined as force divided by time and is a measure of energy, which means you may either amplify your pace or resistance, or decrease the time it takes to complete. If you aren’t dripping rivers of sweat by the end of your work out, slap yourself across the face, go back, and do it right.
Secondly, the actual abdominal exercises should be focused around muscle maintenance (possibly muscle gain depending on a number of factors). Go for the low to medium rep range. If you’re doing more than 20 reps of anything at a time, that is for muscle endurance which does you no good at all. Sometimes you’ll need to add some extra resistance for this to be challenging. If the name of the ab exercise has the word reverse in it, or is otherwise meant to target the lower abs, it means holding the weight between your feet. For the other ab work of your six pack workout you may choose from holding the weight on your chest, behind your head, or over your head.
Lack of consistency is the last flaw. 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’s not missing a single workout that’s a problem in and of itself, but what missing that workout often leads to.
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