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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Ab Workouts - Changing Your Body In 30 Days

By Jose Loni

Are ab workouts essential to a 30-day transformation of our abs? No, ab workouts don't play an important role in this 30-day transformation, but fat loss does and proper nutrition and exercise are the major players in removing the unwanted extra fats covering up our abdominals.

You need to modify your eating routine first. Start eating small, frequent (5-6) meals a day. The frequency helps control your intake to a lesser amount and the frequency of digestion keeps your metabolism running, contributing to more calories burned.

Proper nutrition also means smart food choices. Stay away from foods high in corn syrup, fructose, saturated fats and hydrogenated oils. Avoid white bread, white rice, and pasta because all these foods easily convert to fat, which gets stored as soon as they're converted.

Instead, pick foods high in proteins like lean meats and chicken, fish and egg whites and complex carbohydrates like whole grain breads and brown rice. Complement with high fiber vegetables and fruits and healthy canola and olive oils. These choices will enable you to burn calories efficiently and prevent a sudden drop in blood sugar levels, which is the main culprit that leads you to snack mindlessly.

Knowing which foods contribute to more fat being stored around your abdominal area and which foods actually burn up the spare fat in your body is essential in trying to attain nutritional balance. When you are not adding excess fat to your stores, whatever is left can be used up by working out.

A mixture of high intensity (sprinting, lunges, squats) and aerobic exercises (brisk walking, running, cycling) along with lifting weights work wonders at revving up your metabolism. A high metabolism is key to burning fat better. But you have to remember to change up the activities to help sustain the metabolic fat burn.

The addition of weight training builds muscles, which use up more energy resulting in a greater fat burn. Since 3 lbs of muscle burns up calories equivalent to a 1 mile jog, muscle building is a faster way to lose fat. Also, this burning occurs during the training and even while the body is stationary.

Doing ab workouts is not necessary on your 1 month route to ab glory. What you do need to do is lose the fat. And the best way to lose fat is through a combination of healthy food choices and smart training habits. Add discipline to the mixture and your six pack abs will be here to stay. - 17273

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