Ab Workouts and Core Exercises

Ab Workouts and Core Exercises

There are plenty of myths in the fitness industry that ab workouts will not generate fat loss. If you are just training abdominals with hundreds of crunches and other core exercises, chances are you won't generate any significant fat loss during your ab workouts. If done correctly, however, training your whole core with targeted ab workouts will maximize your fat burning ability. This can be accomplished by taking the basic principles of cardiovascular and circuit training and combining it with challenging core exercises, movements, and ab workouts that will require the use of major muscle groups.

Any time your body moves, there are muscles working to keep you stabilized and other muscles working to actually move you. Your circuit should feature challenging core exercises and ab workouts to target both the stabilizers and the movers, because they are both an extremely important part of everyday functions as well as during strength and fitness training.

What is the Core?

The major muscles of the core reside in the area of the belly, the mid back, the lower back and the hip flexers. Most movements originate with the core, so a strong core is important for preventing and eliminating most lower back problems.

Static Core Function

Static core functionality is the ability of one's core to align the skeleton to resist a force that does not change. The bridge exercise is an example of a static core function that uses your whole core to keep you stabilized in position. Your body weight will rest on your forearms and toes, but without your core staying tight, your butt will shoot up in the air to get your calves involved to keep you in position, or your hips will drop to the floor.

Starting and ending each round with static core exercises will target and improve the strength and endurance of your core. As you begin working on your core exercises while in the circuit, you'll notice a huge difference in how you feel during the first static exercise and the last. You can use this comparison as a way to gauge where you're at with your strength and endurance.

Dynamic Core Function

Dynamic core functionality is the ability to use the core as a stabilizer but also deal with the force of external resistance and incorporate a vastly different complex of muscles and joints versus a static position. For example, if you get into position to do a push-up, your core has to keep you stabilized and aligned in that position. Your chest, shoulders, and triceps are sharing the load as you lower down towards the floor and again as you come back up to starting position, all while your core continues to work keeping your back flat and your hips from dropping to the floor. 

Performing challenging dynamic core exercises, movements, and ab workouts will exhaust your energy stores extremely quickly, causing your body to start dipping into your fat stores to help complete your exercise. This is why it's important to keep the repetitions high with clean mechanics for whichever core exercises, movements, or ab workouts you choose.

Ab Workout and Fat Loss Mistakes You Must Avoid

Ab Workout and Fat Loss Mistakes You Must Avoid

If you want to discover some areas where you may be going wrong in your ab workouts and your attempts at losing stomach fat, I have an interview for you here that you'll want to read.

In the interview, we discuss the topic of abs training and the biggest myths and mistakes we see in this field.

Here's a copy of the training portion of the interview below. We'll discuss the nutrition aspects necessary for losing enough body fat to carve out those six pack abs in another article.

CB: Okay Mike, so where does the average man or woman go wrong when it comes to training abs?

MG: Most people are probably going to be surprised with this answer. In their quest for 'six pack abs', the biggest mistake I see people making is wasting WAY too much of their time training their abs directly... pumping away with all kinds of different abs-specific exercises.

I'm sure you know what I'm referring to. The person is trying so hard to get those abs to show, that they're spending almost all of their time in the gym with hundreds of reps of various crunches, leg raises, twisting exercises, etc. Meanwhile, all of that wasted time directly training the abs could have been better spent on a properly designed full body workout program that would elicit a much better metabolic response and increase the fat-burning hormone levels in their body as well.

After all, losing the stomach fat that is covering the abs is the MOST important aspect for most people to finally be able to make their abdominals visible. Unfortunately, pumping away with hundreds of crunches and leg raises does NOT cause much of a metabolic or fat burning hormonal response.

This is the main focus of my Truth about Six Pack Abs book... full body workout programs and proper nutrition to strip off that stubborn belly fat and reveal the six pack that's hiding underneath!

Of course it wouldn't be an abs book if I didn't focus on ab development too, but I make sure firstly that the most important concepts for lasting body fat reduction are understood.

CB: Do you see any gender differences in mistakes they make? And more importantly, do you see any gender differences in the response to various types of ab training?

MG: To be honest, I don't really see any need for men or women to train differently. Bottom line... the best exercises are the best exercises regardless of gender.

Best Way to Lose Weight Secret

The last thing you want to happen after you find the perfect weight loss program or the perfect weight training program is to lose interest. In this article you'll discover how to stay focused and keep the excitement you felt on day one of your program.

OK, you start a diet, you're going to lose stomach fat once and for all, you get the latest weight loss products, the doc's go ahead, all the right foods, even your own personal coach or at least a place to work out that you enjoy.

You're well into your program and everything is going fine for a week or so and then all of a sudden there is more important things to do than workout. A dialog starts up in your mind, "wouldn't you rather be doing something else?" or "shouldn't you be taking care of such and such?" And the next thing you know your diet plan is a distant memory.

Why is this?

Because the exercising is turning into work and you're not keeping your goal of the new you fresh in your mind. So your thoughts start wondering, finding something more interesting for you to do than to work out.

Do you know what is happening? You're losing focus, you forgot to feed that internal goal machine with a nice image of that body you had envisioned previously. And just like a house of card all the parts start to fall down.

It's really a simple matter of staying focused. That is why some diet programs have you report in and they make a big party using the support system of other dieters. If you have access to this support great, if not, you can still stay focused.

Prime the pump constantly, keep that new body of yours in your mind's eye. Feel that new you, how loose are those clothes are going to be or how sculptured your body is going to be? Imagine hearing someone complimenting you on a job well done as you achieve your goal.

Keep in mind that new you, refresh your goal energy. Nourish your thoughts the same way you nourish your body and you will experience the outcome just the way you knew it would be.

Pre Workout photos

It is becoming a ritual doing photos before the workout.People prefer to make selfies and mirror selfies at the gym before starting the workouts.Sometimes i personally make selfies and i post them online but there are lots of people who spend more time doing selfies than training

Loss Weight System - Fun Ways to Lose Weight

Loss Weight System - Fun Ways to Lose Weight

Losing weight does not have to be boring, there are a lot of fun ways you can lose those bulges without feeling like you just want to go over there and kick the bucket. There are so many people who really desire to lose weight but always keep falling off the wagon because they find conventional methods of shedding weight either too difficult or just plain boring. Here is a list of weight loss systems that are quite fun:

Dancing

Dancing is a pretty great way to have loads of fun while burning off the calories. There are a lot of dances that can help you lose the pounds and still have a lot of fun while you are it:

Salsa

Tango

Hip hop

Belly dance

Ball room dances

Jive

You can participate in vigorous dance routines like salsa, jive etc you will not only be sweating, burning off calories and having great fun, but you will also be doing the following as well:

Burn calories and releasing toxins through sweat - which is very important if you want to lose weight

Tone your muscles

Increase your energy levels

Strengthen your bones

Improve the body's circulation

Increase your endurance and flexibility

Dancing burns calories as much as any other type of conventional exercises, dancing helps to relieve stress and tension as well. A loss weight system using dance is cheap and very convenient; all what you will be requiring is a ready and willing body and the real desire to have a lot of fun. 

If you have been yearning to learn the following dances; salsa, jive, hip hop etc you can do so using an online resource, register at a dance club or just get down while you are doing the household chores. You do not need expensive tools or gear in order to get into the grove.