Lose Your Belly Fat And Show Off Your Six Pack Abs
Chris Chew

Have you noticed that most people will never fail to include
abdominal muscle exercises in their routines and yet somehow or
other, they can never own that coveted 6 pack abs?

Have you been religiously doing your abdominal muscle
exercises? Is your abs showing to your satisfaction? No? Why?
Do you know that your abdominal muscle is one of the easiest
muscles to build but yet why is it that most people have
difficulty in developing that 6 pack abs?

Here is the truth. Those of you who are working out your abs
regularly do probably own that much sought after six pack. Yes,
you do. The only trouble is that your belly fat is covering
them. Your abs will not show up well if you have a body fat
ratio of more than 12%. The more fat you burn off, the more
defined your abs will be. You will own that rippling washboard
abs when your body fat is 10% or less. So if you have fat on
your belly, forget about abdominal exercises and burn off the
fats first.

There is another reason why people put in so much effort to
develop their abdominal muscle and yet their abs are not
showing although they have low body fat. Again, there is a
simple explanation. They are doing the wrong exercises and
working out in bad form.

Let's take for example the most common abs exercises, the sit
up and the leg raisers. Everybody seem to be doing these two
exercises not knowing that these exercises really don't do much
for their abs. Don't believe me? Ok…try this. When you do your
sit up or leg raisers, place your palms on your hip on the area
connecting to your thigh and perform the exercises. Tell me what
did you feel? Ahhh….you are getting it. Those muscles there are
doing most of the work. Those are your hip flexor muscles.
Since your hip flexors are doing most of the work, how can you
develop your abs effectively?

So you say, from now on I will do crunches instead. Well, I
have another surprise for you. Most people perform their
crunches wrongly too. Think about it. Why is the exercise
called the "crunch"? It is because you must squeeze your abs so
are that you are crunching them. In order to squeeze your abs
hard, you have to curl up like a prawn and breath out all the
air in your lungs at the top position and then squeeeeeeeze the
muscles so hard that you feel a burn. That will take a few
seconds to crunch out all the air before you lower to the
beginning position again. You can't do this effectively if you
just go up, down, up down, up down rhythmetically. So, if you
have been doing hundreds of crunches everyday with minimal
result, now you know why. In fact, it is almost impossible for
the average guy to do tens of properly performed crunches and
not to say hundreds of them. The same squeezing principle
applies to other abs exercises.

Ok….now that you know why your abs are not showing up well, so
get on with burning your fats and perform your workout in
correct form. You will then see your 6 pack abdominal muscle in
no time.


About The Author: Chris Chew is a personal trainer of actors,
male pageant winners, fashion models and other celebs. More
free fitness tips on his websites at http://www.sgfitness.com
and http://www.sgfitnessonline.com