Turn on the TV sometime after about 1:00 in the morning, and flip through the channels. Chances are, you will very quickly be able to find at least one enthusiastic infomercial about a revolutionary new ab training machine or program. Seven minute abs, bowflex, the crunchinator, you name it. Six pack hype is everywhere these days. And there's a reason for it - People keep failing to get the abs they want, seemingly no matter what they try, so there's always a market for more more more!
The problem is, though, that regardless of whether you are being sold a fancy ab machine for $19.99 a month, or your friend is standing over you with a stopwatch while you do intricate, acrobatic lunges and backflips to music, it really all boils down to just that: Hype.
No matter how much you lift weights or exercise your abs, none of it alone will give you a six pack. There has always been and will always be only one way to get a six pack...
Step 1: Cardio!
Do cardio.
That's it. That's the whole secret. To get six pack abs, you have to do lots and lots and lots of cardiovascular exercise. Run, skip rope, swim, whatever.
What most people don't realize is that unless you have been bedridden for the last ten years, every single one of use already HAS a six pack in us. If you didn't have a six pack, you wouldn't be able to walk or stand up without flopping over backwards and crushing your organs.
The problem is simply that for most people, their muscles are hidden by layers of fat. Thus, your real enemy in your quest to get washboard abs is not your abs; it's your fat. And you get rid of fat with a treadmill, not an ab flex 3000 that you work out on for 5 minutes a day, burning a whopping 30 calories in the process.
Of course, once you've gotten rid of that fat (or if you don't care about looks and just want strong abs), you can make your muscles bigger and more powerful by lifting weights, doing crunches, etc. But none of that has anything to do with whether you or your friends can visibly see any of it, which is what most people are interested in. They are separate issues.
That's it. That's the whole secret. To get six pack abs, you have to do lots and lots and lots of cardiovascular exercise. Run, skip rope, swim, whatever.
What most people don't realize is that unless you have been bedridden for the last ten years, every single one of use already HAS a six pack in us. If you didn't have a six pack, you wouldn't be able to walk or stand up without flopping over backwards and crushing your organs.
The problem is simply that for most people, their muscles are hidden by layers of fat. Thus, your real enemy in your quest to get washboard abs is not your abs; it's your fat. And you get rid of fat with a treadmill, not an ab flex 3000 that you work out on for 5 minutes a day, burning a whopping 30 calories in the process.
Of course, once you've gotten rid of that fat (or if you don't care about looks and just want strong abs), you can make your muscles bigger and more powerful by lifting weights, doing crunches, etc. But none of that has anything to do with whether you or your friends can visibly see any of it, which is what most people are interested in. They are separate issues.
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