If you spend hours scouring the web for tips on how to get abs or how to lose weight, today you are going to learn the simple strategies which most individuals in gyms around the world are totally overlooking.
These three fundamental rules must play a part in your routine if you are going to achieve the attention-grabbing midsection you hope for:
1. Hit all the muscles in your midsection properly.
2. Ignore those who over-train their abs, this leads nowhere.
3. Contract the muscle in the same way you would squeeze your biceps at the top of a curl. Feel it.
It is surprising how many individuals cannot tick all three of the boxes above. In fact, the first one throws an awful lot of people a curve ball. If you were to ask a thousand gym members which abs exercises they did as part of their routine, you would probably hear the same answers again and again. Crunches, sit ups, weighted crunches, and so on. But they are neglecting several key areas of their midsection with this approach.
Crunches won’t hit your lower abs or your obliques. This is why even those in decent shape often only have the top two muscles clearly visible on their stomach.
Try hitting every single muscle in quick succession, such as the workout example below:
1. Crunches x 20
2. Leg raise with swiss ball held between your ankles x 20
3. Straight-leg crunches x 20
Perform each exercise straight after the last, as a circuit, without any rest. After you have reached the end of the third exercise you should rest for around two minutes before beginning again. See if you can achieve 5 rounds of this.
Not only will this hit every single muscle within your abs, it will also kick-start fat burning to a whole new level due to the very high intensity of the session.
While training your midsection might not yield the same ego-boosting qualities as, say, an intense biceps and triceps session, they are still very important to the overall physique you are trying to earn. The problem is that most guys only keep the intensity level turned up to full volume on muscle groups which they enjoy training. This results in a lopsided appearance. A boring workout is an ineffective one.
While today’s workout is most certainly a tough one, it does return results. If you are trying to learn how to get abs the number one rule is to adapt your program to ensure you are hitting every single muscle in the target area, rather than just doing the basic, most popular exercise. Should you train abs with weight? This is not really necessary if you are hitting the area effectively already. If you can do that, then you will see positive results in any muscle group.
You writer: You can learn how to get abs by watching the complete workout clip from Russ Howe PTI. Russ is a successful trainer who answers tough gym myths such as should you train abs with weight and more on his free personal training blog each week.
