Author: Craig Ballantyne
Crunches are a joke, a complete waste of time if you want abs.
Goodbye situps, hello intervals.
There's no such thing as spot reducing exercises, but according
to Australian research, interval training can actually help spot
reduce belly fat more than body fat anywhere else on the body,
so when you do interval training and you lose fat it's mostly
coming from around your abs.
Interval training is a big part of Turbulence Training,
obviously that means that people are going to have a great
opportunity to lose belly fat and therefore see their abdominals
better than ever before.
In Turbulence Training, don't spend 30 minutes three times per
week on abdominals in the Turbulence Training programs, but we
do put in the most effective abdominal exercises, maybe one or
two, in each workout or maybe just one or two for the entire
week.
And we only use the best exercises incorporated into a total
body workout to boost metabolism and help get your abdominal
muscles ready so that when you get the body fat off you'll see
them.
Total body exercises can build 6-pack abs as fast as crunches.
And most people if they're just doing exercises on a machine
sitting down, they don't realize how hard these total body
exercises are actually working your abdominals.
So that's why we use these, what I call multi-muscle exercises,
rather than sitting down in a machine type of exercises.
You can burn stomach fat and get abs at home with minimal
equipment.
Most people don't realize how hard their stomach is working to
maintain that proper pushup position when actually doing the
movement. And most of the exercises I do for the abs people
wouldn't think that they are for the abs like the pushup.
People still tend to believe movements like crunches and other
exercises where you're laying on your back work your abs the
best. Lose your gut with short burst cardio. That combination's
far more effective than any type of crunch or other exercises
where the ground is supporting your back.
And you know what? The best abdominals that I ever saw on people
were on athletes who had never actually done any abdominal
exercises in their entire lives.
They were just very fit athletes but their sporting movements
and their other training gave them the abdominals that most
people want. So people have to understand that you could lie on
your back all day and do ab exercises but unless you're putting
everything else together you're not going to have the abs that
you want.
So, again, don't get too hung up on the abdominal exercises,
especially the ones you see in magazines that are talking about
these 30 minute ab routines. A lot of stuff in some magazine is
just there because they know that's what people want to see. It
gives them what they want but not what they need. So, don't get
hung up on the ab exercises, the crunches and that type of
stuff, just focus on getting rid of that body fat and you'll be
surprised at how good your abs are even without spending a lot
of time on your abs.
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