Ab Workout: 3 Techniques For A Sexy Belly

Top Ab Workout for a Flat Stomach

There are literally thousands of ads and commercials that will tell you all you need is a fast workout a day on some ab workout contraption, and you'll get sexy abs literally overnight.

Have you ever tried any of these ab "doo-hickeys"?

Did you get the results they promised?

If you've bought any of these contraptions, you've more than likely realized by now that the company advertising the gimmick was borderline committing false advertising.

But there are some things you can do for your ab workout without any equipment at all to get toned sexy abs and a flat stomach, starting right now. Without any fancy gimmick.

1) Increase your intensity - I don't mean do more ab crunches or sit ups, I mean make the exercise more difficult.

2) Use Resistance - Rather than pounding out ab crunches or situps on the ground, pick up something that weighs 5-10 pounds to increase the difficulty.

3) Lower the reps - Doing 20-30 or even 100 ab crunches in a workout is a waste of time. You just get really good at doing a lot of situps. Lower the reps to allow for greater resistance.

The purpose of your ab workout is to stimulate your abdominal muscles to become stronger and more dense, in turn they'll be toned and hard once you achieve low levels of body fat.

The notion that ab workouts or ab exercises will give you a flat, toned stomach is absolutely false. Use these strategies for your ab workout coupled with the proper exercise and nutrition program, and you'll have a flat, sexy tummy before you know it.
Todd Scott is a training advisor to Men's Fitness magazine and founder of the best selling book How To Get Six Pack Abs. To learn more go to the Weight Loss Programs homepage.

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