Uncover your Abs
The elusive six-pack stomach is plastered everywhere you look these days with ripped abs being used to sell anything from aftershave to magazines, underwear to diet Coke.
The lean, defined mid section is often seen as the Holy Grail of masculinity, providing the ultimate sexual attraction.
The truth is that the six pack (rectus abdominus) is just one part of the core musculature that supports our posture and protects our spine and, like all other muscles, should not be over-trained. A strong stomach and a weak back can lead to imbalance and ultimately injury or lower back pain.
Follow the Sculpt Personal Training top tips for a lean, muscular stomach and achieve the beach ready stomach you’ve always dreamed of – get rid of flab-pack and welcome your six pack….
1. Don’t spot train
You can do 500 stomach crunches every day but still won’t see any definition if you have a layer of fat on your stomach. Instead focus your efforts on a training program that will burn the fat and reveal your hidden six pack.
2. Eat rubbish, look rubbish
Enjoy junk food and drinking binges? You can bet your stomach doesn’t, maintain a balanced healthy diet to strip away fat and uncover your abs.
3. Interval training
One of the most effective ways of burning body fat – run / swim / cycle / row at a high intensity for 1-2 minutes and then bring it down to a lower intensity for 1-2 minutes. Repeat 10 times for a fat blasting workout.
4: Quality not quantity
You’ll get much better results from challenging exercises completed with good posture. 10 well-performed crunches are better than 100 poorly performed ones.
5. Train the entire core
The stomach muscles work together with the rest of the core muscles so it’s important to train them all equally to get best results.
David Jones
Sculpt Personal Training
david@sculpt.me.uk
