| So you are sick of your big tummy and want to get | | | | Ok, try this then. When you do your sit up or leg |
| that awesome flat 6 pack abs. You have diligently | | | | raisers, place your palms on your hip area connecting |
| been doing hundreds of sit ups and crunches every | | | | to your thigh and perform the exercises. Tell me what |
| day so that you can own a flat tummy with defined | | | | do you feel? Ahhh, see what I mean? Those muscles |
| abs muscles and yet that six pack remained elusive. | | | | there are doing most of the work. Those are your hip |
| You are now on the verge of giving up. Why is that | | | | flexor muscles. Since your hip flexors are doing most |
| so? | | | | of the work, how can you develop your abs |
| Well, if it is any consolation at all, you are not alone. | | | | effectively? |
| The irony is that your abs muscle is one of the easiest | | | | So you say, from now on I will do crunches instead. |
| muscles to build and yet most people have difficulty in | | | | Well, I have another surprise for you. Most people |
| developing that 6 pack abs. | | | | perform their crunches wrongly too. Think about it. |
| Here is the simple truth. The only reason is that your | | | | Why is this exercise called "the crunch"? It is because |
| tummy fat is covering your abs muscles. Period! Your | | | | you must squeeze your abs and contract hard so that |
| six abs will not show up if you have a body fat ratio of | | | | you are crunching them. Not just crunching up and |
| more than 12%. If you want rock hard and defined abs | | | | down like a worm in spasm. |
| muscles to show, your body fat ratio percentage must | | | | In order to squeeze your abs hard, you have to curl up |
| be in a single digit. | | | | like a prawn and breath out all the air in your lungs at |
| The more tummy fat you burn off, the more defined | | | | the top position and then squeeeeeeeze the muscles |
| your abs will be. So if you have tummy fat, then forget | | | | so hard that you feel a burn. That will take a few |
| about abdominal exercises and start working off the | | | | seconds to crunch out all the air before you lower to |
| belly fat first. | | | | the start position again. So, if you have been doing |
| That said, there is another reason why your abs are | | | | hundreds of crunches everyday with little result to |
| not showing up even though you have low body fat | | | | show, now you know why. |
| percentage. Again, there is a simple explanation is that | | | | In fact, it is almost impossible for the average guy to |
| you are doing the wrong exercises and working out in | | | | do tens of properly performed crunches and not to |
| bad form. | | | | say hundreds of them. The same squeezing principle |
| Don't believe me? Ok, then let us take a look at some | | | | applies to other abs exercises too. |
| of the more common abs exercises, the sit up and the | | | | There are many more tips to get a flat tummy with |
| leg raisers. Everyone seems to be executing these | | | | defined six pack abs to show. However, just get the |
| two supposedly abdominal exercises not knowing that | | | | gist of the article right and you will definitely see |
| these exercises are really inferior exercises. | | | | progress. |
| Oops. I see incredulous look on some of your faces. | | | | |