Hundreds of ab gadgets, gimmicks, magic pills and exercise machines swamped the market for people seeking to have sexier and flatter abdominals. The proper abdominal muscle exercises to get ripped abs is one of the hottest, and most controversial topics in the fitness and exercise industry.
The problem is that most of the abdominal workout that are being promoted all over the internet, and in magazines, etc, are not necessarily the most honest method to achieve that six-pack abs appearance. First and foremost, the most important phase for nice looking six pack abdominals is losing the excess belly stomach fats that is covering them up. In reality, most people already sport suitable abdominals underneath, yet the six-pack stomach are simply covered up by all of that extra flabby abs belly fats.
The key is instead of concentrating so much on abdominal training program to make your core flatter and more like a six-pack, you will lose much more body stomach fats by focusing the majority of your training time with special combinations of high intensity full-body, multi-joint training program. The best and most effective training program for losing that abdominal stomach fats are the workout that work the largest portions of the body at once.
Workout that work the large muscle groups of the legs, upper and lower back, and chest give you the biggest metabolic bang for your buck in terms of abdominal belly fats loss. Combining these types of big multi-joint exercises in high intensity super-set, tri-set, or circuit fashion gives you the biggest stomach fats-burning and metabolism boosting response from your workouts.
And that is one of the best kept secrets for flat sexy abdominals that are actually visible as a six-pack!
Now when it comes to abdominal-specific workout, another mistake most people make is mindlessly pumping away with hundreds of crunches and situps and other meaningless abs training program that barely give your abdominals much resistance to work against. If you want to actually own your abdominals to the best extent possible, don’t waste your time with training program that you can do more than 20 or 25 reps… that way you are definitely not doing an exercise that provides enough resistance to the abs. Workout that give you enough resistance to get you down into the 6-15 rep range per set works great for the stomach.
Generally, higher resistance abdominal workout that provide a much larger stimulus to the stomach come in the form of workout that involve raising/curling the legs and pelvis either upward or inward closer to the trunk. A couple great examples of these higher resistance abdominal workout are hanging leg raises or knee raises using a “pelvic curl up”, or an exercise like lying hip thrusts. Many times, the same people that can do 50 or 100 crunches, can’t even complete more than 2 or 3 properly executed hanging leg raises.
If you really want tighter flatter abdominals that look like a six-pack, remember that losing that extra belly fats is the MOST significant factor. Also, when it comes to abdominal-specific exercises, always remember higher resistance workout that involve curling/raising the legs and pelvis upward or inward are what develops the core to the best extent possible.