Exercises For Abs – Best Way To Get Six Pack Abs
Article by Absninja
1. Crunches and leg raises (the most popular choice, and very bad)
Imagine a guy with a big beer gut doing crunches. Take a close look and try to remember this image for the rest of your life. Doing sit-ups and crunches is a lost hope for the abs. Trying to develop six pack abs with crunches is like tying to dig a well with a toothpick. It will not happen.
Crunches are the third best exercises that build your abdominal muscles, but they will do little to facilitate fat loss.
All the useless gadgets sold on TV via infomercials are variation of crunches. They won’t do you any good.
Please read on, to find other choices you have for building six pack abs.
2. Diet only (also popular but not so healthy)
Trying to build your six pack with diet only is a losing game. It is possible but it will take a long time and the result will be less than desirable. You will get a skinny, unhealthy and unfit look. A six pack that anorexic would have.
3. Doing cardio only (excellent choice, fast results)
The aerobics. They are positively the best workouts, if you want to get cut.But if you’re just a runner, you will look like a runner. Yes, you have six pack abs, but they don’t look too good, because they do not appear quite muscular and healthy.
The easy cardio workout is jogging.
The cardio workout with accelerations and slowdowns is called HITT, interval training. It is the fastest way to loose your gut and expose your six pack jewels.But doing cardio exclusively will give you a skinny looking six pack. Most women love to look skinny, but it is not good enough for boys!
4. Compound Barbell Lifts (another excellent option, preferred by bodybuilders, but it is hard to get ripped by the weights alone)
Now, if you’re like many people that try to learn about abs, you’re probably asking: What about weightlifting?
Strength training is the second best six pack abs exercise. But not any kind of weight lifting. I’m talking about lifting weights through compound movements. Let me explain.For our purpose here there are 2 types of weightlifting exercises:
? compound lifting? isolated lifting
Doing just bicep is an isolated exercise. If you squat with barbell you work many muscles at the same time, including your abs.This is essential if you ever want to get a set of visible abs.
Here are the best 4 compound lifts:
? squat with barbell,? deadlift? chest press? rowing exercises
Bicep curls or hamstring cable machines are not your best choices. Focus on the compound movements, if you want to see your abs and look muscular.
5. Combo approach: Cardio + Compound lifts + Crunches + Diet (the best, fastest and most beautiful six pack look)
The secret to the perfect abs, you have to do cardio to lose the fat that covers the abdominals.
You also do compound weightlifting to look muscular.
You must have a balanced nutrition to ensure your cardio and weights do not go in vain.
I hope you are red hot from excitement by now. Do you agree, it is quite possible that you have a six pack?
About the Author
There is one more element that will determine whether you will fail or succeed in getting your visible abs. Go to Exercises For Abs and click on Last Word tab on top of the blog.
I am a Physical Therapist and having lean body is one of my passions. I run a blog www.ExercisesForAbsHQ.com, where I share my experience in getting six-pack abs.
Thank you, and I hope you’ll get your six pack abs within months not years.
Absninja