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by Todd Scott, HowtoGetSixPackAbs.com

If you’re interested in discovering some areas where you may be going wrong in your abs training and your attempts at losing stomach fat, I have an interview for you below that you’ll want to read.

In it, Scott Colby, grills me on the topic of abs training, booze, & burning stomach fat

Here’s a copy of the first half of the interview below. In this part of the interview today, we’ll just deal with training aspects.

In a couple days, I’ll send out the rest of the interview, where Scott & I cover the nutrition aspects - plus I go into step-by-step detail about how you can booze it up and still burn off your belly!

Here’s the first part of the interview:

Scott C: Why don’t sit ups, crunches, and the ab machine gizmos
help you get a 6-pack?

Todd S: Think about this for a minute, our muscles are designed to adapt to the amount of stress consistently placed on them, so if sit ups, crunches, and ab machines are supposed make your belly shrink, then that would mean adding additional stress to other muscle groups would cause them to get smaller, too. Yet, when you see someone who is at an advanced fitness level, their muscles are typically larger than the average person.

For example, have you seen a cyclists’ legs? By cycling alone, they place more stress on their leg muscles than the average person. The result? Moderate to Large leg muscles.

Basically, muscles adapt according to the amount of consistent stress you put on them. If you do leg exercises, your leg muscles will adapt to the added stress by becoming stronger and denser. That means they get bigger, and that’s why people who want bigger (not smaller) legs do squats and other leg exercises rather than avoiding them.

We sometimes forget that our abdominals are made up of the same material and are muscles themselves. So by training
them (regardless if you’re doing sit-ups, crunches or an ab machine), the same thing will happen, they’ll grow stronger and denser. And in the end they’ll be bigger. It has very little to do with burning fat.

It’s true that by increasing the size of your ab muscles you’ll increase the rate of your metabolism to an extent, but not enough to make a noticeable difference.

You can see undeniable truth that ab exercises, sit ups, and crunches will not help you get a six pack by reading the story of Mark Pheltz at HowtoGetSixPackAbs.com. He set the Guinness Book of World Records for the number of sit-ups at one time. How many did he do? 45,005 Sit-ups in 58.5 hours… Go see for yourself if he had six pack abs, you’ll be shocked at what you’ll read at the Ab Exercises Don’t Burn Fat homepage.

*note- when you get to the homepage, just click “women” if you’re a woman, and click “man” if you’re a man
to read Mark’s story and see with your own eyes what 6 months of sit-ups 6 hours per day will do for your belly fat.

Scott C: What types of exercises do work to shed belly fat?

Todd S: There really isn’t a “type” of exercise that burns fat better than others. Some will argue that full body movements burn fat faster, but there’s more than one way to skin a cat.

The fact remains that the more muscle you have on your body, the more calories you’ll be able to burn during a given day. So, no matter whether you’re a man or a woman, the ultimate goal is to choose exercises that stimulate the most amount of muscle at a time.

If you want to go with full body movements, that’s perfectly fine. Generally, I will train Men and Women differently even though both can lose fat by following the same program.

Guys typically like having large, hard muscles overall, so in order to burn the maximum amount of fa-t while still focusing on smaller muscles, I’ll use both single and multi-joint movements within supersets or triple sets as well as add explosive movements.

Here’s an example triple set I’d use:

Bench Press
Barbell Curl
Explosive Med Ball Push Up

Here you have all three – Multi-joint movement (bench press), followed by a single-joint movement (barbell curl), and ending with an explosive movement (explosive med ball pushup). The single-joint movement is included as the second exercise in the set to act as an “active” rest for the more metabolic demanding explosive med ball pushup which utilizes the same muscles as the first exercise in the sequence. Though, the single-joint movement is an “active” rest, it should still be performed at maximal intensity.

Since the gals typically aren’t concerned with muscle size or hardness and just want the lean toned look, I generally use the same format but with less emphasis on the single joint movements. Here, the single joint movement would be a “true” active rest.

Here’s an example triple set I’d use:

Step-Ups
Bench Dips
Squat Jumps.

The focus of this set is on the legs. The bench dips are thrown in to divert stress away from the legs in preparation for the more metabolic demanding Squat Jumps. Your heart will be pounding by the middle of the second set, so you’ll gladly welcome the Bench Dips as an active rest while being able to focus attention to the back of the arms.

In all if you place more focus on the larger muscle groups, you will burn more fa-t. But if you want to give your body a metabolic spike, I suggest mixing it up.

That wraps up our training portion of the interview. For more info about whether the How to Get Six Pack Abs Program is right for you, be sure to check out the following site:

HowToGetSixPackAbs.com

I’ll be back in a few days with the portion of the interview where we discuss the common nutrition mistakes most people make along with my recommended tips and strategies - PLUS the nutrition side of the how you can drink booze and still lose belly fat!

’til next time, Train Hard & Live Easy!

The ab workout exercise gone completely wrong.

YOUTUBE

If you’ve ever felt frustrated and confused at the gym… if you’ve ever felt like you’re doing the exercise all wrong…

Or if you’ve ever made an embarrassing goof that you’re not too proud of… well…

You’re not alone…

If you’d like to access a complete step-by-step system containing all the exercises you need, and exactly how to do them, so you don’t end up embarrassed like the guy in the video, just click the link below:

http://HowtoGetSixPackAbs.com

I have a quick goof up story of one of my own blunders in the gym back in the early years.

Growing up, the only access to weights and weight training I had was at my high school. It was a DUMP. Literally, if I left the weight room without being so dirty that I looked like I had been working on a broken down car, I felt as if I didn’t get a good work out. Everything was rusty, old, and broken down. But it was home.

Even in college, I’d look to the bare bones facilities for my workouts.. not sure why, but I just felt comfortable working out and getting dirty.

Well, fast forward 2000, I began working at an upscale Gym in Baton Rouge. The equipment was nice, the people were nice, everything about the place was nice. So as you can imagine, finishing up a workout and still having the clothes I was wearing clean was something new to me. It just felt odd.

So, anyway, as I was getting used to working out on all the new equipment, I was at the cable cross over machine working my triceps. You know the contraptions, it has a weight stack with a cable running vertical & wrapping around a pulley, etc.

Well, I had a fairly heavy tricep bar attached to the end of the cable, when I reached down to pull the pin & adjust the weight stack, a few of the plates (5-10 lbs) started slowly rising on their own. Bent over and Baffled, I just stared at it slowly rising for about 5 seconds… then…

BAM!

Something smashed me on the top of my head. After jumping to the side as fast as I could to figure out whether or not I had just gotten pummeled by a bodybuilder that wanted my machine, I realized….

The tricep bar that was attached to the end of the cable weighed about 15 pounds. Since it was on a pulley against only 10 pounds after I pulled the pin, the bar began to fall…

And walloped me upside the head.

Needless to say, I felt like an idiot. Luckily there weren’t many people at the gym that day, but a cute little girl was over in the corner looking at me giggling…

She had seen the whole thing..

Just wonderful.

If you have a similar story, feel free to post them in the comments section below. I’d love to hear about them.

’til next time, Train Hard & Live Easy!

Todd Scott
HowtoGetSixPackAbs.com

Situps aren’t the best exercise to get washboard abs. Here’s a quick video demonstrating a killer abs exercise to help burn belly fat.

For more information on how to incorporate this exercise into your program to lose belly fat, log on to the Get Washboard Abs homepage.

I hope you enjoyed the video as much as I enjoyed making it for you! I’d love to hear from you, so if you have anything you’d like to say, whether it’s how much you liked the video or about stuff you’d like for me to help you with in the future, leave your comments below… you might be my inspiration for the next video (I have been known to make videos and answer questions based on blog comments… so if you have questions, I’m sure there are other people out there that have the same ones… so ask away, and I’ll talk to ya soon!

Todd

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Washboard Abs

Not many people know it, but i have a passion for tennis…

I know, right? Can you imagine seeing 240lbz of muscle running around on a tennis court chasing a little green fuzzy ball for hours at a time??

I can’t either, and I’m sure it’s a sight to see…

And I even catch people that witness it with their own eyes doing a few double takes as they walk by, but allow me to brag a little…

I’m damn good at it..

– end of brag –

Anyway, the reason I bring up tennis, is that this video is shot at a local tennis court. A few buddy’s and I were going out for a quick practice session…

…and I decided to bring a video camera and an 8 pound med ball.

This exercise is K-I-L-L-E-R.. one of my all time favs because you get a kick butt ab workout and you don’t even realize it, because your main focus is having fun and focusing on your partner & the ball..

check it out…

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