Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Athletic Workouts

Use athletic workouts to help build your six pack abs and even more. Athletic bodyweight workouts will blast fat from your body like never before...just try a workout and see for yourself!



Athletic bodyweight workouts are very intense and will improve your body's composition (fat loss, more muscle). These workouts will sculpt your body without your joints taking a pounding from lifting heavy weights!

To get your muscles to improve power (how fast your muscles can produce force), do some or all of the exercises full speed. Also, you will really burn fat and shape your bulkier, fast twitch muscle fibers when doing exercises at full speed!

Athletic bodyweight circuit workouts are a tried and true method to burn more fat, increase strength/endurance and improve heart health.

Do each exercise (10 repetitions) one after the other with little or no rest between exercises. Rest 2-3 minutes and do the circuit 2 more times. Here is a good athletic bodyweight workout:

--Bodyweight squats, moderate pace
--Medicine ball soccer throw (pictured above), full speed
--Pushups, full speed
--Walking lunges/Side Lunges/Tranverse Lunges, moderate pace (one for each circuit)
--2-Handed medicine ball chest pass, full speed
--Squat jumps, full speed
--Back extensions, moderate pace

Use correct form and get after it!

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Barefoot Running

Harvard evolutionary biologist Dan Lieberman believes that modern running shoes may explain why fifty percent of serious runners are injured at least once a year (Nature, January 2010). Modern running shoes have features that cause runners to land on their heels with forces of at least three times body weight at 6-minute mile pace. The faster a runner runs, the greater the force, which causes stress fractures of the feet and lower legs, shin splints, tears in the fascia on the bottom of the feet, knee and hip pain, tendon and joint damage and more.

Hitting the ground with the heel first generates tremendous force because it stops the foot suddenly. On the other hand, landing on the front of the foot allows the foot to keep on moving as the heel is lowered toward the ground to distribute the forces throughout the entire lower leg. If you drop a pen on its tip, it hits with tremendous force because it stops when it hits the ground and then falls forward. However, if the pen were dropped on the side of one end, it would hit the ground with much less force because after hitting on that side, the force would be distributed as the pen falls backward to the other end.

In the 1960s doctors thought that most running injuries were caused by excessive pronation, a rolling inward of the foot after the heal strikes the ground. They felt that the foot rolled inward toward the arch to dissipate the tremendous heel strike forces. This, in turn, caused the lower leg to twist inward and they blamed the frequent running injuries on the inward twisting motion of the leg after heel strike. So they invented running shoes with special arch supports to limit inward rolling, and with padded heels to cushion some of the shock of the heel hitting the ground. However, these features reinforce the runners' habit of landing on their heels.

Dr. Lieberman has shown that barefoot runners are more likely to land on their forefoot or mid-foot. He has shown in elegant experiments that landing on the front part of the foot reduces the force of the foot strike very significantly. However, he has no data to show that running injuries can be prevented by running barefoot. Furthermore, stones and cut glass can cause injuries, and most runners have such thin skin on the bottom of their feet that they couldn't possibly run barefoot.

New on the market are running shoes with very thin soles and minimal heels called Vibram FiveFingers shoe and the Dunlop Volley. Vibram is supporting Dr. Lieberman's studies. Dr. Lieberman has shown only that
• modern running shoes tend to encourage a runner to land on his heels, and
• heel strike generates more force than front foot strike.
He has not yet shown that:
• modern running shoes cause injuries, or that
• injuries can be treated or prevented by running barefoot or in thin-soled shoes.
Dr. Lieberman's website

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Ab Ball Jackknife

Sculpt those six pack abs sooner by doing the ab ball jackknife exercise. Superset the ab ball jackknife with the ab ball rollout to build your six pack even faster!





Do the ab ball jackknife this way:

1. Place both shins on the stability ball with both hands on the ground (arms straight). Keep hands a little wider than shoulder width. Keep your body in a straight line from head to feet.

2. Roll the ball toward your chest with your legs together. Bend your knees to your chest as far as you can. The movement should be controlled and steady throughout.

3. Roll the ball back to the starting position. That's 1 repetition.

The ab ball jackknife will improve your balance. Include this exercise more in your workouts.

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Prisoner Squats

Yes, prisoner squats will help you get six pack abs sooner! When you do these squats correctly, your ab muscles will be activated.



Add bodyweight prisoner squats to your exercise routine. You can do prisoner squats anywhere, anytime (as a warmup exercise also).

As a matter of fact, go ahead and do regular bodyweight squats, one-legged bodyweight squats and Y bodyweight squats. They all work to burn fat and sculpt your body.

You also get strength benefits for your glutes, hamstrings and quadriceps. Prisoner squats also help to realign your shoulder blades.

1.Stand with your feet a little wider than shoulder width apart with your toes pointing slightly outward.

2. With your hands behind your head, keep your chest up and shoulder blades down and back throughout the range of motion.

3. As you descend, push your glutes back as if sitting down, bending at the hips and knees. Keep your knees aligned with your toes (don't let the knees "cave in" or protrude outside the feet). Also, don’t let your knees pass over your toes and stay back on your heels.

4. Don’t lean forward, maintain the natural arch in your back and keep your core braced (as if getting ready to take a punch).

5. As you ascend, contract your glutes.

Bodyweight prisoner squats are a good variation from the traditional bodyweight squats.

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With A Meal Plan

Your six pack abs won't show if they are covered with a layer or layers of fat! While you're building up those ab muscles, you need to burn ab fat at the same time. You can only do that by following a healthy meal plan.

You can start with eating your daily servings of fresh fruits and vegetables. I've never heard of anyone getting fat by eating too many fruits and veggies. Next, cut out ALL SUGARY DRINKS. Drink only water or unsweetened drinks like tea. If you will do just those two things, you will be well on your way to shedding body fat on your abs and whole body.

So, how much food do you need to eat every day? You have to achieve a caloric deficit (burn more calories than you consume) for the day to lose weight and burn fat.

Set your daily caloric intake based on your basal metabolic rate and your activity level (including exercise). This way, you won't eat too much or too little. Maintaining the right amount of caloric deficit is the key to burning fat and losing weight.

If your basal metabolic rate is 1800 calories a day, 1000 calories of food intake is not enough food for you to function properly! This type of calorie restriction will cause your body to shift to survival mode and store fat. Your body will also be a total wreck if you do this too much!

So, if you eat 1800 calories and burn 2200-2300 calories a day (through movement and exercise), you will lose weight and burn ab fat and total body fat.

Eat foods as close to their natural state as possible. For example, a baked potato would be better than french fries.

Here are some do's and don'ts when it comes to the replacement method of eating:

Cut out these types of foods: sodas, sugary fruit juice drinks, candy, cookies, donuts, fried meats and fried foods, fast foods, ketchup, mayonnaise

Add these types of foods: whole grain breads, whole grain cereals, oatmeal, almonds, nuts, low-fat dairy products, low-fat yogurt, fruits, veggies, unsweetened tea, water, lean meats (baked, broiled or grilled), olive oil, cinnamon, mustard.

Uncover those hard-earned six pack abs by burning the fat covering them!

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Hanging Leg Raises

Build your six pack abs sooner with the hanging leg raise exercise. It is an advanced abdominal exercise.

There is a reason you see more people doing ab crunches instead of hanging leg raises! The hanging leg raise and its variations is very tough to execute. In fact, it is the gold standard for abdominal exercises! Gymnasts have been doing hanging leg raises for decades. A person needs core strength, arm strength and grip strength to perform the exercise correctly. If you can't do one hanging leg raise, you need to strengthen your core, back, arms and grip.



1. Hang from a bar using an overhand grip with arms straight and shoulder-width apart. Let your legs hang straight down.

2. Contract your abs and make sure that your back remains neutral with natural arch. Keep your head still and looking straight ahead. Raise your legs to the midpoint of your body using your abdominal muscles. Don't swing your legs up and use momentum to do the exercise. This is a controlled strength exercise.

3. Hold for 1 to 2 seconds and slowly lower your legs. That is one repetition.

Beginning exercisers can start by trying to bend the knees up to the chest. Intermediate exercisers are able to do a straight leg raise up to the midpoint of the body. Advanced exercisers can usually raise straight legs up to the head or "windshield wiper" bent knees to the left and right.

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Good Carbohydrates Help to Prevent Heart Attacks

This month, separate studies from Denmark and Italy show that heart attack risk is lowered by replacing saturated fats with good carbohydrates that do not cause a high rise in blood sugar, while heart attacks can be caused by replacing saturated fats with carbohydrates that cause a high rise in blood sugar (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, April 7, 2010; Archives of Internal Medicine, May 2010). Those who ate the most foods that cause high rises in blood sugar levels had more than twice the risk of having heart disease as those who ate the least.

In the 1940s, Ancel Keys, of the University of the Minnesota started groundbreaking research that showed that saturated fat in meat causes heart disease and premature death, while carbohydrates from intact plants in a Mediterranean-type diet help to prevent these complications. Further research showed that replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats in plants also helps to prevent heart attacks.

Carbohydrates found IN plants are combined with other components that prevent a high rise in blood sugar. When these same carbohydrates are extracted from plants or ground into powders, they can cause blood sugar to rise too high.

• Whole grains are capsules with a tough outer coating that prevents a high rise in blood sugar. They can resist digestive enzymes and pass through your digestive system virtually intact. Grinding whole grains into flour breaks the capsule so the small particles are easily absorbed to cause a high rise in blood sugar.

• The carbohydrates in vegetables and fruits are attached to fiber that markedly slows absorption. When sugars are extracted from plants they pass into the bloodstream almost immediately (see the list of extracted sugars below.)

• Before food can pass from the stomach into the intestines, it must be converted to a liquid soup. No solid food passes into the intestines. When solid food enters your stomach, the pyloric sphincter at the end of the stomach closes and the stomach continuously squeezes the food until it is turned into a liquid soup. This can take up to four hours which markedly delays the rise in blood sugar. Therefore you want to limit foods made from ground-up grains (flour), extracted sugars, and sugars in liquid form including fruit juice, because they can cause the highest rises in blood sugar levels.

How a high rise in blood sugar causes heart disease: When your blood sugar level rises too high,
• your pancreas releases huge amounts of insulin which
• converts sugar to triglycerides, which clog up your bloodstream to increase risk for clots, so
• you use up huge amounts of your good HDL cholesterol in carrying triglycerides and your bad LDL cholesterol from your bloodstream into your liver.
• Low HDL (good) cholesterol causes heart attacks becaues HDL is not available to carry cholesterol and triglycerides from your bloodstream.
• High insulin levels constrict arteries to cause heart attacks. • High blood sugar levels cause sugar to stick to the surface membranes of cells to destroy them and cause all the horrible side effects of diabetes.
• High triglycerides in your liver cause a fatty liver that can lead to diabetes.

A diet rich in plants has also been shown to help prevent Alzheimer's disease (Archives of Neurology, April 2010). Based on these and many other studies, I recommend that you:

1) Eat unlimited amounts of unprocessed fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts and other seeds.
2) Avoid all sugared drinks including fruit juices (except while you exercise; contracting muscles remove sugar from your bloodstream without insulin).
3) Restrict all ground up carbohydrates (foods made from flour).
4) Choose cereals made from whole grains and with little or no added sugar. See How to Pick a Breakfast Cereal
5) Restrict meat from all mammals. Poultry has not been associated with increased risk for heart attacks, and fish is associated with reduced risk.
6) Read labels on all processed foods. Extracted (added) sugars have many names, including: barley malt, beet sugar, brown sugar, buttered syrup, cane-juice crystals, cane sugar, caramel, carob syrup, corn syrup, corn syrup solids, date sugar, dextran, dextrose, diastase, diastatic malt, ethyl maltol, fructose, fruit juice, fruit juice concentrate, glucose, glucose solids, golden sugar, golden syrup, grape sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, invert sugar, lactose, maple syrup, malt syrup, maltodextrin, maltose, mannitol, molasses, raw sugar, refiner's syrup, sorghum syrup, sucrose, sugar, turbinado sugar, yellow sugar.

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