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Not able to see your abs despite grueling ab exercises?

I know, I can relate…

Fitness experts say that a six pack set of abs (or lack there of) is the direct result of low body fat levels.

If we want great abs.

Then, we better get the fat off that is covering them!—End of story.

Read on to get the truth about flat abs, and how to get the fat off…

I was reading a fitness article the other day about a guy who was doing one thousand crunches per day and still could not see his abdominal muscles.

One thousand crunches!

Wow! Talk about frustration.

Clearly, exercise alone just is not going to cut it.

As I read further, the article revealed that there was a significant factor preventing him from achieving the lean body and the abdominal definition he was aiming for.

A crummy diet!

Yes, he certainly exercised like a fiend, but he then thought he could get away with eating whatever and as much as he wanted. Turned out his diet was a mess. You know, fast food, packaged processed food, refined snacks, everything he ate was too much, and all wrong!

I’m sure you’ve heard nutrition experts say that…

“We cannot out-train a lousy diet.”!

I can relate to that! Can’t you? Come on. Let’s be honest. After a hard workout don’t some of us think we deserve a break. We think we deserve to eat until we are stuffed even if it is good healthy food.

Or even worse, we think we deserve that chocolate chip cookie—just one. We say, “I’ll work it off tomorrow”… One cookie once in a while is fine, but it’s a problem if it’s a consistent choice several times a week. And, let’s be honest—it’s often more than just one.

Now, come on, I’m not saying that ab work is not important.

But, if we want to get the tight flat abs, we cannot ignore any one of the three factors discussed below.

And, we especially cannot imagine that hard exercise can reverse the fat storage consequences of the brownies and ice-cream we had last night…

All the ab exercises and spin classes won’t help as long as we still have body fat covering our muscles.

Sorry!

The truth is, that there is no such thing as spot reduction or people who chew gum all the time would have a skinny face. Right?

The hard truth is that if we want to have a really lean body with great abs and well-defined muscle, we must be concerned with the number and quality of calories we consume.—as well as a combination of resistance and interval training.

To see great abs, we must be concerned with fat loss, not working the ab area to death.

This information is a bit counter intuitive. But all of the most reputable fitness experts agree on this point.

So, how do we achieve fat loss and get lean enough to see our abs?

According to Tom Venuto, here it is…

Fat loss, and weight loss is a combination of three major areas:

1. Intense interval cardiovascular training,

2.  A well-rounded whole body intense weight training program

3.  And, finally, a healthy nutrition program that is about 15 to 20 percent less than your calorie maintenance.—not drastic.

Tom will expand on each of these areas in his book, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle.

He points out that each of us is very very unique so this three pronged approach is extremely variable from one person to another.

Some of us can tolerate carbs, others do much better with low carbs.

Tom Venuto’s, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle e-book is the best on determining your very individual body composition, and training and eating requirements. I highly recommend this fat loss manual.

He teaches us exactly how to burn the fat and get lean forever!

So, all the really credible experts like Tom Venuto tell us that in order to loose fat, and get lean, it’s not enough to exercise.

We must slightly reduce our caloric intake, and we must eat small frequent meals. Tom says meals should be around 250 to 300 for women, and a little more for men.

So this means that having only two or three large meals is not conducive to fat loss.

As a spin instructor I see it all the time. Participants work out regularly and see know results. They are either not working intensely enough, and eating poorly. Or, the intensity is there, but the diet stinks. Or they are not doing any strength training. Or a combination of all three.

If we are truly honest with ourselves we will see where we need to adjust.

Maybe more strength training. Maybe we have the intensity, but it’s not frequent enough. And maybe the other two factors are there, but be honest, we just plain eat too much, or we constantly choose highly refined processed food.

So, to recap…

It’s a massive error to think that one thousand crunches done every day will make your abs finally “pop” when your diet is a disaster which is leading to fat storage.

Go check out Tom’s program, I think you’ll really appreciate his no-nonsense information.
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Let's get lean!
Kathy Strahan