Sunday, April 25, 2010

Beginner ab workouts

Are you just beginning to work on your abs and are looking for a way to burn fat and get good definition? Well, I’m glad I caught you before you began wasting your time doing thousands of sit ups and crunches. Wasting my time? Yes, wasting your time.
The truth of the matter is that, while the typical ab workouts do build the ab muscles, they don’t do much for burning fat, and that is what most people have that is obscuring their abs from public view. You see, to burn fat you need to do a couple things. First you need to build muscle and second you need to increase your resting rate of metabolism. Concentrating on a specific set of muscles like your abs or, for that matter, your bicep, isn’t going to burn a lot of fat or build a lot of overall muscle.
Hmm? Makes sense, doesn’t it? So, what do you need to do?
Well, here’s the part where you’ll be glad that I caught you before you started your ab workout. To build muscle and increase your metabolism you need to begin working your entire body with exercises like dead lifts and one arm dumb bell snatches. These are compound exercises that work multiple muscle groups at the same time. Because they cause exertion of multiple muscle groups they cause your body to go through a metabolic change as it recuperates from the workout over the next couple of days.
There are other exercises as well that build over all muscle mass and burn fat to reveal your abs such as the military press and the clean and press. If you’d like to know more Click Here!

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