ABs Part Two
May 30th, 2007 | 
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Part Two
“Why doesn’t my waistline shrink when I do crunches?”
Crunches do not shrink your waistline. Losing bodyfat does shrink your waistline. So the answer is simple: Lose body fat. The first step in losing body fat is to look at your diet. A diet full of calories from sugary foods, junk food, starchy carbs and too much alcohol is the quickest road to ‘big ol’ fat belly’. If you want to have a waistline and abs that are worth looking at, you’ve got put the effort in to produce them. If you are eating all of the wrong foods while increasing muscle growth you are actually “bulking up”.
Getting Started On A New Ab Program - Tips & Hints
When you read through the following tips and hints you will find that there are quite a few of them that you aren’t following or didn’t know about. Use the following like a checklist so you can remember each point when starting your new abdominal progam.
1. Resistance Training Program Tips
* Train your lower abdominals first.
* Breath out as you crunch forward.
* Place hands lightly to the front of the forehead, make sure you keep your elbows forward and pointed toward the knees.
* Don’t pull your head.
* Keep your navel pulled toward the floor and keep your ribcage closed.
* Don’t overtrain your abs. Three quality training sessions per week is more than enough.
* Focus on your ab exercises on cardio days or on non-weight training days.
* Don’t go overboard with repetitions to start. 20 reps with perfect techniques is better than 100 that flop all over the place.
* Keep your abdominal movements controlled and precise.
* Don’ t just train your abs. Train each body part so that you can a achieve a “toned and firm look” all over.
2. Healthy Eating Program Tips
* Reduce your fat content in your meals
* Do not cook with oil, use a low fat cooking spray instead
* Remove all fried foods
* Remove margarine and butter
* Increase lean protein (to help feed your muscles and support repair and growth)
* Eat fresh salads and veggies
* Remove gravy
* Cut all the fat off your meat and grill it
* Always have breakfast!
* Use egg whites rather than eggs with yolks
* Have one day off your eating program per week
* Add 2 protein shakes to your day between meals
More in part three
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