Personal Trainer from Langhorne Explains How Lower Ab Exercises Can Be Misleading
If you think doing lower ab exercises can get you ripped abs, think again. Doing lower ab exercises to get six pack abs can be one of the most misleading notions out there. Having visible, well-muscled abs require having disciplined eating habits and regular physical activity in order to increase our body's metabolism.
Doing lower ab exercises can strengthen the lower abdominal, hip and back muscles, thus preventing injuries, but exercises focusing on that one area alone cannot tone and expose those abs.
Working the problem area in isolation is not effective and cannot burn localized fat. Instead, overall physical activity is required to get our whole body to use up excess fat.
A smart eating plan, consisting of smart food choices, allows the body to easily burn these for energy. This jumpstarts our metabolism and allows the burning of excess body fat stored in our stomach area.
Lowering caloric intake by eating small meals 5-6 times throughout the day helps keep our energy up and our blood sugar stable. Energy is used to digest food so the frequent meals help burn even more calories.
Exercising is a great way to increase our metabolism. Resistance training has a way of making our muscles adapt to the increased demands, which results in greater metabolic activity. When the body has increased metabolism, it becomes more efficient at burning fat and utilizing the excess fat as fuel.
Meanwhile, engaging in anaerobic interval training builds explosive and highly reactive muscles that require more energy. Thus, increased muscle activity allows our body to be more efficient in burning excess fat stores, leading to continued fat burning even hours after training.
Doing lower ab exercises in isolation is simply not the answer to getting toned and visible abs. However, having a smart eating plan and regular physical activity can boost metabolism and send us on our way to achieving six pack abs.
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