Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Lower Ab Workouts - Burning Abs Don't Mean Ripped Abs Emphasized By Langhorne Trainers

By Jose Loni

Lower ab workouts are great! We feel the burn but we see no results! That's because the whole principle of spot reduction does not work. The ads and TV commercials we see always claim to get fantastic results by using their product. In fact, you just have to increase your metabolism through resistance training and your body will burn the fat. You will see results!

Lower ab exercises are really good at strengthening the targeted lower abs. However, isolation exercises are not very efficient at burning overall body fat. In order to really affect body fat, you must do overall multi joint exercises.

Infomercials selling all sorts of magic machines usually show their always-smiling, perfectly shaped models in various contorted positions, trying to make their contortions as enticing to the viewer as possible, with the magic promise of getting your own body in model-perfect shape as well.

Don't get sucked in. Magic machines don't work and perfectly shaped models are just there to make you think they do work. It's all a marketing ploy because target area reduction doesn't work. You end up with stronger abs but you still have to burn the fat covering the ab muscles and magic machines don't burn fat.

Burning fat still requires you to actively use your muscles and the best way is through training with weights. The harder your muscles work, the more energy they use up so the body has to constantly source more fuel for the muscles to use. This is when the body starts to look for and use up any excess fat as a fuel supply.

When we train the body at a higher intensity, the muscles will accumulate excess carbon dioxide and lactic acid. The body must then provide blood and oxygen to the muscles to keep the muscles functioning.

This whole supplying, clearing and repairing processes requires a lot of energy and because this process takes awhile to complete, the body is constantly 'working' or metabolism is now raised, and the body starts burning fat.

Spot reducing focusing on lower ab exercises will not give you defined six pack abs. TV ads and ab exercises will not give you the results you want. Resistance training to jumpstart your metabolism is the key to ab workouts. Turn on your body's natural fat burner and get your killer abs fast!

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