Building an awesome set of six-pack abs isn’t just about what you do and how you do it, it’s also about what you refrain from doing. It doesn’t really matter how hard you train your core if you don’t watch what you eat. It’s like the old computer analogy, GIGO, garbage in, garbage out.
Top Three Dos For Easy Six-Pack Abs
- Suck in your gut. Plain and simple! If you have been trying to build six-pack abs for any length of time, as little as four weeks if you’re not obese like I was, you already have a six-pack, packed away underneath your belly fat. The challenge is carving the fat away to reveal your six-pack in all it’s glory. Try this, lay supine on a flat surface, raise your head and shoulders, no, not your shampoo, about three or four inches and look at your abs, see the ripples under the fat? If not you will soon. Keeping your gut sucked in accomplishes two things, it works your abs all day long and improves your posture.
- Practice Push-Aways. What’s a Push-Away? Push yourself from the table a little hungry. Don’t starve yourself by any means, it will backfire on you big time by making your body a more efficient calorie extracting machine. That’s why fat people can eat almost nothing and still not lose weight. Your body thinks it’s starving to death so it takes less energy to do the same tasks and stores all it can against future needs, in the form of fat.
- Workout Smarter, Not Harder. I’m 51 years old, I no longer have the desire to do those two-hour long daily workouts like I did in my twenties. Hey, I said Easy Six-Pack Abs. My current workout schedule of two to three hours a week gives me far better results and leaves me with plenty of ‘Get up and go’, to do all those fun physical activities people stay in shape for.
As I said at the outset, it’s not only what you do, it’s also what you don’t do.
I don’t push myself to failure when I workout, neither do I breeze through my workout. I don’t starve myself to lose weight, neither do I overeat. It’s like the Ancient Greeks always said, “Every thing in moderation.”
Michael Cole