What You Need to Get Six Pack Abs

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Greg | Jul 10, 2010 | Comments 0

Many people think that in order to get ripped abs you need to spend a lot of time doing ab exercises. This is almost completely wrong.

You need to keep in mind is that your core muscles are being engaged during many different exercises (e.g. lunges, deadlifts, good-mornings…). If they were not working, you would find yourself feeling unstable, and chances are, you would wind up injured.

In fact, your ab muscles come into play for every exercise you do, to some degree.

Furthermore, one of the major factors in developing ripped abs, is going to be getting your body fat level low enough for them to be seen clearly.

If you’re not approaching close to single digits, chances are you may have great ab muscles, but you aren’t going to see them when looking in the mirror.

One of the best ways to raise your metabolic rate, leading to a higher energy consumption and more fat burning happening in your body throughout the day, is doing fall body weight lifting exercises. Do keep in mind though that all weight lifting activities are not created equally. A heavy set of squats is going to ramp up the metabolism a great deal more than a set of bicep curls would for example.

This is why many fitness experts recommend focusing mainly on compound exercises for you workout routine. This would be movements such as squats, lunges, deadlifts, bent over rows, shoulder presses, and the bench press.

Exercises like these will not only help you burn off excess body fat, they will also increase muscle growth all over your body period.

Lastly, keep in mind that ripped abs and strong abs can mean different things. If you do too much resistance training for you ab muscles, they might end of growing too large, making your waist appear wider than you would like. Unless the body fat levels are not low again, you’ll just end up looking bigger in the middle, rather than more defined.

So, in order to make this goal a reality for you, first focus on getting low enough body fat levels to get those abs showing. The best way to achieve this is to do a solid full-body training program, combined with cardio and a good diet. Once your abdominal muscles begin to surface, you can start shifting the focus to more abdominal exercises.

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