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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Mountain Climbers

If you want six pack abs sooner, do more mountain climbers! You can do them slow or fast. Just do them. You will also get a total body workout.Do bodyweight mountain climbers if you're serious about taking your workout to another level. The mountain climber is a versatile exercise in that you can do it on level ground, on an incline, knee-across-your-body, as a warmup, as cardio or as a speed exercise. I like to include mountain climbers as part of a bodyweight cardio session.You will burn more abdominal fat and overall body fat by doing mountain climbers.Either way, include mountain climbers...

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Isometric Exercises

You need to do isometric core exercises to get your six pack abs. This is a surprise to many people. Isometric core exercises build up the deep stabilizing muscles and give tone to your entire core area. Isometric exercises help you build strength and burn fat without moving much.Isometric exercises are very underrated. They are great for building muscles, stabilizing muscles, building strength, improving power and burning fat.Isometric contractions can be described as a type of muscle contraction where your muscles develop tension without changing length. For example, pushing against a wall...

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Ab Ball Rollout

Get your six pack abs on with the ab ball rollout. This exercise might be new to you or you may be afraid to try it....improve your six-pack abs, core strength and balance with the ab ball rollout.The ab ball rollout is a great core exercise that you should be doing if you have been working out for some time. Finish Start1. Start with the ball in front with your elbows on the ball. 2. Roll the ball out slowly and keep your abs braced (as if taking a punch to the gut). As you straighten your torso you will feel your abs stretch and extend. Return to the starting position.Superset the ab...

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Recovery Days: Rest or Easy Exercise?

Virtually all competitive athletes train by taking a hard workout on one day, feeling muscle soreness on the next, and then recovering at a reduced intensity for as many days as it takes for the soreness to go away. Then they take their next intense workout. Intense workouts cause muscle damage, as evidenced by bleeding into the muscles themselves and disruption of the fibers and Z bands that hold muscle fibers together. Significant increases in muscle strength and size come only with workouts intense enough to break down muscles. When muscles heal they become stronger and larger. The faster you move on your hard days, the faster you can move in competition. However, continuing intense exercise when muscles feel sore causes injuries and an...

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Ab Ball Curl Ups

Get started sculpting your six pack abs using the ab ball curl up. You can do the ab ball curl up at home or at the park. To add resistance, place a weight on your chest.The ab ball curl up is a good core exercise that won't injure your lower back, if done correctly. Your rectus abdominis (6-pack part of your abs) and obliques should do most of the work.Lie on your back on the ball, knees bent about 90 degrees, hands behind head and feet flat on the floor.Lie on the ball so that your back hugs the ball. Your shoulders and neck shouldn't assist your abdominals during the movement.The movement...

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Get Six Pack Abs Sooner With Front Chop

Get your six pack abs sooner with power exercises like the medicine ball front chop. Getting six pack abs is all about burning abdominal fat and building muscle.This exercise is also a great full body exercise that you can do as a regular strength exercise or power (full-speed) exercise. Because of speed and intensity, power exercises help you burn more fat during and after your workout.Besides burning abdominal fat and helping sculpt your six pack abs, medicine ball front chops are great for improving your flexibility. Medicine ball exercises help you to exercise with natural movements. Your...

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Sculpt Your Body With Explosive Strength Training

Sculpt your body better and faster with explosive strength training. This type of training will burn fat like crazy and sculpt your body like never before....just give it a try! Just as you can do medicine ball exercises, plyometric exercises and light dumbbell exercises explosively, you can also lift heavier weights explosively.Lifting weights explosively is an advanced form of exercise and shouldn't be done by beginners or youngsters. Your body should have the needed stabilization and strength before beginning explosive lifts.Especially at the start of the lift, explosive lifting can be done...

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Arginine: Will it Make You Faster?

It pays to be skeptical. An article from the University of California at Los Angeles showed that cyclists over age 50 who took a commercially available supplement containing the amino acid, arginine, and antioxidants gained a 16.7 percent increase in their anaerobic threshold at three weeks (Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, March 23, 2010).Muscles need oxygen to convert food to energy. Anaerobic threshold occurs when lactic acid starts to accumulate in the muscles, meaning that a person cannot bring in enough oxygen to cover the amount of fuel muscles use for energy, so the person becomes severely short of breath and has to slow down. Arginine is an amino acid protein building block that can stimulate the blood vessels...

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Burn Fat With Complex Strength Training

Complex strength training burns fat better than traditional strength training. Complex strength training should not be tried by beginners or those with inadequate body strength. It is a high-risk, high-reward type of superset strength training. Power, or speed strength (how fast your muscles can produce force) is one of the best ways to improve your workout efficiency. Plyometric exercises help you to increase power. When plyometric exercises are paired with a similar strength exercise, your strength will improve. Complex training to improve strength supersets a power exercise with a...

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R U Xercising 2Day?

So, texting nation out there: R U Xercising 2Day? R U Xercising 2Morrow 2? And so on.....U gt d idea (You get the idea). Use your TXT MSGs to help U n UR buddies Burn F@ (BURN FAT) n LUZ WGT (LOSE WEIGHT). Why do people text so much? IDK (I don't know)! It seems easier sometimes just to talk to the person. I'm not a big texter on my cell phone but many of my clients and friends are so I'm GWTP (getting with the program).So, hre R sum QIK WGT loss TXT MSGs 4 U 2 snd:1. d/l My Fitness Hut WGT loss eB%K (Download My Fitness Hut's Weight Loss e-Course)2. do BOD WGT XRcZs 4 Cardio (Do Bodyweight...

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High Blood Pressure During Exercise

Does an exaggerated rise in blood pressure during exercise predict who will develop high blood pressure in the future?For athletes, probably not. Many research articles have shown that people who develop very high blood pressure during exercise are the ones most likely to develop high blood pressure in later years (American Journal of Hypertension, April 2004). Textbooks explain that these people have arteries that do not expand as much as normal arteries when blood is pumped to them. When your heart beats, it squeezes blood from inside its chambers to the large arteries. This sudden bolus of blood causes normal arteries to expand just as balloons do when they fill with air. The walls of arteries have sensors that allow arteries to expand with...

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Lose Weight Safely

Lose weight safely and steadily and it will stay off (if you continue your exercise program). If you lose weight this way, you are also building muscle and burning fat. Your body will gradually change to lean and toned. And, you will be healthy and look great. This process takes time and hard work folks! No quick remedies will give you the "killer body" you want. I was reading this article about a fad diet, "Lose 18 Pounds In 4 Days." That's crazy and if you fall for that you will be sick and maybe hospitalized!I have said this before so here it is again: losing weight and burning fat is not the most important thing in your life (it improves the quality of your life). Television commercials try to make you feel that way because they...

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Benefits of High-Intensity Interval Training

To be competitive, all athletes must train very intensely some of the time. New research from McMaster University in Canada shows that short term, high-intensity interval training on a bike can also provide you with all the health and fitness benefits of exercising less intensely for a much longer period of time (The Journal of Physiology, March 2010). Subjects used a standard stationary bicycle and performed a workout of ten 1-minute sprints with a 1-minute rest between each at 95 percent of their maximal heart rate, three times a week. This takes less effort than an all-out sprint at close to 100 percent of maximal heart rate. The study supports other research that shows that high-intensity training improves speed and endurance far more than...

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Power Cardio Burns Fat

Power Cardio is intense exercise and burns fat like crazy. You won't get bored doing power cardio but you will be exhausted! Power cardio will help you break through your weight loss plateau. All of the early success associated with starting an exercise program can send you into a tailspin when you reach a plateau. You become frustrated and wonder "what am I doing wrong?" You probably just need to change up your exercise routine and you'll be okay.There are many ways to change up an exercise routine----do new exercises, adjust the intensity, adjust the amount of weight, adjust the repetitions/sets, etc. One of the best ways to get you "out of your exercise funk" is to add some power exercises to your cardio routine! Shorter, more intense...

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Portion Control Is Key To Weight Loss

Portion control will help you stay with your meal plan and control your calories during the day. Don't ruin great workouts by eating bad food with a million calories! Its possible to hide those hard-earned muscles with a thick layer of fat! Don't fight against yourself!We are kings and queens of "too large" servings of food and that's without even "super-sizing" anything! Keep your daily food journal to track what, how much and why you are eating! This will help you with portion control.Make needed changes to your eating habits and reach your fat loss and weight loss goals! MAKE THE COMMITMENT TO CHANGE YOUR EATING HABITS AND DON'T "GIVE UP" EVEN IF YOU "GIVE IN" AT TIMES! PERSEVERANCE IS THE KEY TO BEING SUCCESSFUL WITH ANYTHING!It will...

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Stability Ball Exercises Activate More Muscles

Stability ball exercises can activate more muscle fibers if done correctly.The stability ball is one of the most versatile and cost effective pieces of exercise equipment. You can take it with you and do exercises at home, work or on vacation. Doing your ab crunches on the stability ball is superior to the traditional floor crunches. According to researchers in the Department of Kinesiology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, crunches performed by 41 test subjects on the stability ball showed significantly greater abdominal muscle activation than the traditional floor crunches. I recommend...

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Bird Dog Exercise

The bird dog exercise is a great core exercise with special emphasis on strengthening your low back. Low back pain affects nearly 85% of all adults at one time or another. The best solution for any injury is prevention. Include the bird dog exercise in your program:1. Start by placing yourself on hands and knees.2. Slowly raise your opposite arm and opposite leg and extend them out away from the body. Keep your back straight. Your extended arm and leg should line up with your torso. Tighten your abdominals and contract your glutes. Hold for 3 seconds.3. Return to the starting position and repeat...

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Vitamin D Deficiency May Be Genetic

A report from University of Toronto shows that genetic factors cause some people to develop severe vitamin D deficiency while others do not (Clinical Biochemistry, July 2009). An earlier study showed that some people and mice have abnormal Vitamin D binding protein (VDBP) and therefore cannot respond to vitamin D normally (Endocrine Reviews, June 2008). They are at increased risk for heart attacks, strokes, certain cancers, depression, athletic injuries, muscle weakness and so forth.Over the years I have been unable to run effectively in the winter and injuries forced me to miss six Boston Marathons. This same pattern of winter-time weakness and injuries plagued me when I switched to cycling. It wasn't until a few years ago that I drew blood...

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Burn Fat With Cardio Workouts--Only 20 Minutes!

Yes, you can burn fat with cardio workouts--with the right cardio workouts! You might have to change your thought process about how you do your cardio. If your cardio workout sessions are 45 minutes to an hour, get ready to change (if you want to burn fat and tone your body)! Long, slow cardio sessions wastes time and your precious muscle mass also wastes away! Anaerobic cardio sessions, like sprint intervals, have been proven to give superior heart-health and fat-burn! So, stop wasting your time and start building your lean, mean fat-burning machine! Devote more time to strength training...

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Burn Fat Using Strength Exercises

Strength exercises will burn fat and lean out your body. Build more muscle mass to speed up your metabolism and burn more fat. To recruit more muscle fibers during workouts and improve your success, focus more on MULTI-JOINT OR COMPOUND EXERCISES. COMPOUND EXERCISES will help you burn more fat because you are working large muscle groups in your body. For example, the largest muscle in the body is the gluteus maximus and squats/lunges would target this area (among other areas). You will also burn more calories after your workout. Examples of SINGLE-JOINT EXERCISES are biceps curl, seated calf raise, leg extension, leg curl and triceps pushdowns. Spend less of your time on these exercises. Here are some top strength exercises that will help...

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