How To Get Abs

At least you are asking this question! I have worked out at my own home, gyms, other peoples home gyms, hotels, motels and Holiday Inns!

Each has their own little quirks, pros and cons. It is quite a major decision you will have to make as you embark on your crusade for mental and physical fitness and getting in the bets shape of your life. Let me give you my opinion and you can make your own judgement on what you are going to do..

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Home Gym – Pros

• You can pay once for your equipment and then never pay again
• Your own music to workout to – no more bending the barbell to Patsy Cline
• Nor more distractions – you can’t make excuses to not go to the gym
• 24/7
• Get your family into working out too

Gym Pros

• Trainers to help you out
• No cleaning up
• Competition (this is a big part I will talk about soon)
• Meeting like minded people
• Endless equipment choices
• Potential to meet future partner who is in great shape!

Each choice has equal and opposite pros and cons, but in the end the choice is up to you.

My advice would be for you to go to a gym until you feel very confident that you are performing all of your workouts with a barbell and dumbbells in the correct form and have progressed significantly in weight. This is just because you don’t have the benefit of somebody pointing out wrong and potentially harmful technique.

I still go to the gym sometimes as I am in the process of making a home gym at my place. The only equipment I have are dumbbells, a barbell, weight plates and a set up that enables me to do squats and bench press etc safely.

I have a boxing bag out in the back yard and use that often for a good ol’ sweat breaker before, after or as a complete workout.

If you do decide to go down the route of a home gym, keep it simple and just learn how to use a dumbbell, barbells and maybe a medicine ball for burpees, press ups and some ab workouts. Play some loud music, record your progress and show those plates of iron who is boss!

Until next time, check out the fitness club house and kick butt somewhere!

Johnny

Nothing gets the fat melting like good hard interval training.

Interval training is something everybody should have in their workout plans. It is more efficient that typical cardio because it is far faster, it is more effective because it makes you work harder and faster causing more muscle breakdown, which increases metabolism, which burns fat

Now that you are positive Interval Training (or High Intensity Interval Training) is the key to fat loss, let me explain what it is.

HIIT is when you are alternating between periods of intense exercise and slow exercise with no breaks. For example, instead of going for a monotonous old run like every other joker does, try having a blast at HIIT next time you strap on your jogging shoes. This is exactly how I do it:

1. I pick a spot where there will be nobody around. My favorite is at a school nearby that has a 400 meter running track.
2. Hit the spot you have determined is best for your activity. I use this school because I sprint the 100 meters.
3. After you have stretched, go for a light jog for a couple of hundred meters at alternating paces and stretch your legs. Fling them up high and down low just to make sure that you are ready as you don’t want a busted muscle or bone.
4. Sprint the 100 meters as hard as your poor body can. Go all out. You might feel like you are going to face plant or slip backwards, but keep going. The idea is to sprint like an absolute mad man.
5. After you cross the finish line (it can be 100, 200, 300 meters, you choose) then you lower the pace right down to a light jog. I will do a light jog back to the start of the 100 meter track, then sprint again.

When I am doing this, I like to plan out in my head how many sprints I will do BEFORE I get to the track. If I leave it till I feel buggered, then I am probably going to throw in the towel at 3 sprints, instead of 10.

There is a whole lot about intense interval training in the free fat loss and six pack abs course that is available for absolutely nothing from my website.

Until next time, sprint like Usain Bolt on Meth gettin’ chased by his Momma around Jamaica

Johnny

I thought I would include this epic picture to demonstrate the potential power of my information on your body, if you let me help you !

Knowing which exercises burn the most fat is the key to being able to get rid of that layer of stomach fat fast. When you are beating round the bush trying all sorts of different workouts, you are just wasting time. People out there for the past few thousand years have been learning and making mistakes, for our benefit.They have done the learning and made mistakes so that we don’t have to.

We can shortcut our way to the top.

Fat loss only comes when the body is placed under hard load or unusual load compared to what it is relatively used to. So for the majority of people who are only needing to lose a little bit of stomach fat to get those abs showing, they will need to do some intense work.

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For the people who are very overweight, this means that the first part of fat loss will occur without too much effort. In fact with just dietary changes, losing some weight is very possible. However the further you go into losing fat and building the body you want, the more work you have to do and the smaller your gains get.

This is the same with anything and it is just called hitting a plateau, which means you have to change things up. The point of all this, is not to waffle on, but to say that there is not going to be a one size fits all exercise to lose ab fat. I will list a few below though and tell you what you should be doing depending on your current situation.

Obviously if you are a girl at 20% body fat, you will not be as fat as a guy who is 20% body fat. Factor that in.

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Very Overweight – over 35% body fat:

If you are very overweight, lets face it, you will probably have trouble sprinting up a hill, so that is obviously not practical. You are probably on a diet similar to that of an Oompa Loompa. So you need to make some small changes like:

• Start taking walks each night or morning. Just around your neighbor hood or around a park. Start with walking just 100 yards or so. Then each time you go out, add on a hundred yards each time. As you lose weight you will do it faster and faster.
• Stop buying things such as crisps, cakes, lollies, pies, sausage rolls, white bread, chocolates etc. These things are the biggest hurdle that you will face. However one simple solution to dieting is to just stop buying it. If you go out for lunch a few times a week, have a dessert to treat yourself, just change the majority of your diet and it is impossible you will not see changes.

Averagely Overweight- 20% and up body fat

• You need to start tightening up your diet and eating 4-6 meals per day. Eating whole grains, vegetables, fruits and lean meats, fish and poultry.
• Exercise needs to be some time in the gym doing full body workouts, cardio with more intensity and doing it for about 45 minutes at least 4 times a week. Light ab workouts such as crunches and sit ups are recommended

Almost There – anything up to 19% body fat

• This is where you make or break your progress. You are already looking a lot better than most people who have ever tried to lose weight, or if there is where you are starting, be very grateful.
• Cardio needs to be very high intensity to start burning fat at these levels. High intensity interval training is recommended.
• Weight training definitely needs to be started around these levels as it will synergize with the cardio giving you results twice as powerful as either one alone.  Body splits are recommended, also 1 rep maxes, super sets and the occasional full body workout are advised. Ab workouts such as decline crunches, captains chair, bicycle are probably the best at this stage.
• Diet needs to be very controlled at these levels if you wish to lower body fat further still. Increasing protein intake, increasing good fat intake and lowering carbohydrates except for within 2 hours either side of a hardcore workout.

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I hope this gives you a little direction and an idea about what you should be doing. Some fitness gurus will just advise people on what to do, without even asking them where they currently are. I can’t see somebody with 45% body fat sprinting up a staircase, but I can see them quitting very quickly.

Check out my site for the free course download and feel free to contact me through email or comments.

Until next time, get a grip… and lift it!

Johnny