There’s Work to be Done Before you Hit the Gym

We are all familiar with the fact that in order to get six pack abs, you must workout and eat right. I could show you a good food and a bad food and there is a very high likelihood that you would know which is which. But where many people get confused is the difference between a good and a bad exercise. Many people simply think, “Hey, as long as I am either sweating or my muscles ache, then I have to be making progress.” But it isn’t as simple as that. Sure, for the most part, any exercise is better than no exercise, but you are going to need to add a little brain to your brawn if you really want six pack abs. There are plenty of people at the gym who have been going there for months and sweating up a storm and have yet to see anything close to six pack abs. What these people lack is direction and a plan, they are just throwing themselves out there and hoping that they hit the target.

One of the most surprising things people learn when they start a comprehensive ab program is that learning HOW to do the exercises is as important as knowing what these exercises are in the first place. Doing exercises incorrectly most often leads to it taking much longer to reach your goals, and if you do them incorrectly enough, you may never reach your goals even though you know what the right ab exercises are for getting six pack abs. An even worse scenario is that doing exercises incorrectly will lead to injury. Even doing just one exercise incorrectly and all the other moves right could lead to injury because the rest of your body is growing stronger while that one part stays weak, the drastic difference between strength ability in your own body could lead to an overuse injury.

You will want to set up a schedule, in the beginning probably two days of exercise and one recovery day, then repeat. After four weeks you can safely increase it to three or four days of exercise with one day of recovery in between. Another thing you will learn with a complete ab plan is what kind of workouts you will want to rotate between every two to three weeks. This plan of attack lets you body spend enough time with a workout so that results have a chance to take hold without spending so much time on the same workout that your body figures out just what is asked of it and stops progressing.

Your workouts should consist of lighter weight lifting with many repetitions, cardio, and ab work. You will be relieved to know that the strength training required doesn’t involve pushing your body to the limit each time you lift like you may see in weight lifting competitions. Performing a move 12 times at a lower weight is much more effective than performing it just 3 times with the maximum weight your body can handle.

The cardio you will need should be performed three times a week. The minimum amount of time spent on an exercise that requires constant motion is 20 minutes. You will want to start with this time frame and add to the length of your cardio workouts each week. You also want to mix up the pace that you do your cardio at. A light jog on your lighter workout days is fine, but you will want more intense workout days where you increase the intensity of your exercise in order to get your heart rate up, insert short one to five minute lower heart rate “breaks” into this routine so that you will have enough rest time to bring your heart rate back up again.

Varying your workout every few weeks isn’t the only trick for optimizing your six pack abs plan. The order that you do your strength training moves in is also very important. You may think that all long as you get all of your exercise moves done, it really doesn’t matter what order you do them in. Doing your moves in a proven order can help you burn more calories and build more muscle in less time. This will also help you reduce the chance for injury and will teach you what pace to lift at and how different muscles interact with each other.

You need to do your six pack abs homework in order to ace this test in ninety days to six months. Sure, some hard work is involved, but going into this challenge with a well laid out and proven ab plan is going to greatly increase the results you get out of the work you put in.