How do I Get really Ripped Abs like the guys on the covers of magazines such as men’s health and other Health and Fitness magazines? Well the two factors for determining whether or not you will get Ripped abs are straight-forward , yet never acknowledged. The firstly one being Body Fat.
You must have really -and I mean REALLY- little body fat percentage to get totally ripped abs. Truthfully it should be hovering around 3-5% with the use of skin fold calipers test. If you have ever seen someone with a 3-5% body fat it actually looks like they have no body fat and just carrying pure muscle. At this degree of body fat almost every outer muscle of the body is clearly defined including the abdomen region.
The complete Upper, Middle, Lower and Oblique abs should be clearly visible. A word of caution though is that this level of body fat isn’t recommended to maintain year round and in truth can be quite dangerous if you are holding you body at the lower end of the 3-5% range. This is simply because body fat is vital for the operation of the internal organs. What you may find appealling is that cover models and body builders never keep this low body fat year round.
They may maintain a low body by conventional body fat standards but what they do is that they peak for photo shoots and bodybuilding shows as this minute degree of body fat would be unbeneficial and unsafe for them year round.The second criteria for attaining totally ripped abs is abdominal deveopment. Unfortunately if you don’t have abs muscles no matter how maegre your body fat you won’t achieve ripped abs.
It is for this reason that you should incorporate Best Ab Exercises into your workout routine 2-3 times per week. On top of this, try and integrate great ab exercises that will hit both the lower abs, middle abs, uppers abs and the side oblique’s to develop all the abdominal region. A great way to ensure that you are achieving this is to pick 4 individual exercises such as hanging leg raises, abdominal ball crunches, bicycle crunches and side abs ball crunches and complete them 2-3 times per week. Also include cardiovascular exercise to reduce body fat to your desired level.
All the Best,
Kieran from Body2Shape
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