How To Get Abs

I slept in, I ate a crap breakfast, missed an appointment and look like hell.

Things have been tough lately. I didn’t get to sleep till 4am.

Whatever.

I know what it feels like to feel like this. I know this because this happens to me all the time. Sometimes I get stuck in a patch of life that seems really rough. People die, relationships fail, bosses can be cocks, things break, illnesses happen, families have troubles, wallets stay empty and the sight of  “Palmer Savings Account: -$1500 becomes too normal.. and the list goes on.

I am willing to bet that you reading this have difficulties too. If you don’t, then you must not be from the human being family.

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Despite being human and having ups and downs, I think I managed to scrap the silver lining off todays thunderstorm cloud.

I realized how much time I spend fluffing around doing pointless crap that doesn’t add anything productive to my life, actually making me feel worse. Because I don’t know about you, but when I have a really unproductive day, sleep in and miss a workout, I feel worse than ever.

I am going to make a pact from today on to only focus on things that matter the most to me in my life and keep non-productive activities to a minimum.

You might wonder, what is this grid here for.

This grid is this year.2010.

We are nearly a quater through this grid.

How many of these grids do you have left?

When you can see your life before you on a collection of 40, maybe 50 or 60 grids. Something happens.

You start to wonder if it is worth sleeping in.

Does it really matter if you don’t watch the news, dramas on tv, every new movie, infomercials etc?

(I stumbled across this information here)

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When you can’t be bothered working out, ask yourself these questions:

• What am I going to do instead? Is it something worthwhile that will improve my life?
• Why can’t I be bothered? Did I break up my routine?
• My workout will only be an hour, why is that so hard?
• Do I want to be a lazy slob?
• What is more important, being in exceptional health or slacking off for an hour?

Book in workouts in your journal or diary and stick them out. I always find that the hardest bit about a workout is starting, the rest gets easy after that.

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Until next time, just start okay?

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.

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

Johnny

Everybody goes through these types of thoughts and struggles at some time in our lives.

Not everything is as easy as some people will have you believe, especially not advertisements, salesmen etc.  I remember when I first tried to play a guitar, it took me about a year before I could play a decent song the whole way through, and at the start it seemed absolutely impossible.

I also remember looking at my body in times gone by and thought “I am not happy with this, but how do I change it?”.

Having too much body fat and not enough lean muscle to stand out from a bunch of rakes at a tool shop, I decided to do something about it. I researched, bought products, books, watched videos, tried to discard the gold from the quartz and then did the most vital step, I made a PLAN and took ACTION.

Even if I had never learned a thing about nutrition, cardio or resistance training, if I had just made a plan and taken action, I would have learned along the way and eventually got the result I wanted anyway.

This is to prove that you can lose weight, you just aren’t wanting it bad enough.

You might last a week on a diet that Uncle Jobaba from Turkey recommended, but you aren’t strict enough and you end up blowing off the diet.

You heard about a new workout where you have to try and cover a mile faster every day for a week, but one day it rains so you blow it off as well.

You see an advertisement on a website for a pill that sheds body fat faster than Jenny Craig clients on Meth, but you are trying in vain because it won’t work.

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These are the most common excuses people have:

• You have too many excuses about why something won’t work
• You can’t stay on a diet for more than a week
• The last time you ran was when your partner tried to make veggie burgers for dinner
• You are too old, too young, too fat or not fat enough
• You don’t have enough time because of (insert excuse reason here)
• You have no money
• You have too much money and so you think you don’t have time
• If I wasn’t so stressed I could lose weight
• My family won’t like it if I start dieting
• If somebody helped me do some housework
• If I could just rewind to last year

People think that if they have a good enough excuse then that they don’t have to do something. They feel that they have justified themselves and given themselves a reason to do nothing about their physical (and mental) state. Excuses are just a self-created alibi to fool ourselves into thinking we have no other option.

Excuses are for losers, lazy people, miserable people, martyrs, chicken littles and fools.

Real men and women, boys and girls make things happen no matter what their current circumstances.

Hell, I have been so broke that I can’t even afford the miserable $7 to get into my local gym so I have had to get creative. I could have just said “Oh well, I guess if I don’t have the money,it’ll have to wait”.

I have been through struggles in my life, I have been too depressed, too hyperactive, too mediocre, too tired, sick, injured, geees, find me somebody that hasn’t had struggles in some form or another.

If you can just see past your excuse or whatever reason you have that is currently saying “I can’t …”, ask yourself “How can I make this real?”.

Try asking “Why not?” or “How can I …”, instead of “I can’t.

So to help you with your struggle, go and check out my site, get some good ideas, and if you have no money, go dance in the street for a while.

Until next time, can the excuses and get real!!

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Johnny