Achieving toned abs, you must design a program that will get you to your goal.
Planning is the most important part of any ab workout and it isn't just doing ab exercises.
The proper program design will incorporate weight training or utilizing exercises that are bodyweight resistance, both of which increase the metabolism of the body.
Advertisements that we see constantly show us ab exercises and machines that train the abdominal muscles directly and promise you ripped abs if you buy their product.
Spot reduction is the concept that the ab machines and ab exercises are trying to sell.
However, spot reduction does not work, especially if you want rock hard abs.
The abs will get stronger but not necessarily more defined.
Weight training is an efficient way to increase the body's metabolism.
The primary principle to this type of training is to do exercises that incorporate more joints and use more muscles.
It is important to increase the weight and keep the repetitions minimal.
In doing so, the larger muscle groups will burn more calories and result in greater fat burning.
Exercises that use the weight of the body for resistance can be used to increase metabolism.
Multi-joint exercises like squats, walking lunges, push-ups and chin-ups will help increase the body's exertion level as they allow the multiple muscle groups to work really hard and burn more calories.
An effective way to train with these exercises is to do them all together and take a short rest break, and then repeat the process again 3-4 times.
Weight training and resistance with bodyweight are great ways to train the body and to increase its metabolic activity.
The greater number of muscle groups we use, the more calories we burn, which results in even greater calories burned when the body is replenishing and repairing the muscles during the day and night after the exercise session.
Having a program design which focuses on weight training or resistance with bodyweight are equally effective at increasing the body's metabolic process and can really give you fast results for toned abs.
It's all in the program design!