Abdominal exercises
May 22, 2009
Fitness buffs engage in many different kinds of exercises for their abdominal muscles. There are sit-ups, weighted sit-ups, leg raises, plain crunches, crunches with legs bent, crunches straight up in the air, hip thrusts, and side bends.
Plus there are hundreds of machines targeted for ab muscles, along with hundreds of DVDs and video tapes with ab-specific workouts and hundreds of bogus ab contraptions on infomercials and TV ads.
Truth is, most people work out using one of these exercises or devices not to strengthen their abdominal muscles, but to LOSE FAT. And here’s a bigger truth: NO exercise or machine or workout program for abdominal muscles will burn fat. Not one of them.
Oh, they’ll make ab muscles stronger, but the only way to sculpt that long, lean, ripped set of six-pack abs is to modify your diet to lose weight and to follow a good aerobic workout to amp up your metabolism.
Sorry, but there’s just no way those trim, fit, sculpted models on TV could have achieved their six-pack abs simply with abdominal exercises. That’s because it’s scientifically impossible to target any one part of the body for weight loss.
It’s called “spot reduction” and it’s just an old workout myth in new sweats. Even if the devices and workout programs on TV resulted in a loss of inches, say, that’s only water lost to perspiration and it will come back as soon as the fat and muscles are re-hydrated.
Genuine weight loss, especially in the tough abdominal area, comes only from following a nutritionally safe weight loss program, coupled with a good cardio workshop to increase the body’s aerobic capacity.
Why increase aerobic capacity? Because that’s how you “burn” calories; taking in plenty of oxygen helps amp up the body’s metabolism and increasing muscle mass and strength burns calories more efficiently.
So now, you know the secret: All those abdominal devices, exercises, and workout programs are nothing more than a bunch of hooey designed to make money for somebody else.
Take the word of qualified fitness instructors: To get a strong, good-looking body, you must follow a healthy diet, exercise with weights to strength your muscles, and do a good aerobic workout to increase your heart and lung fitness.
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