What body fat percentage do I have to have great abs?

It’s really a two part question isn’t it? The first part is the simplest. If you are a man you have to be below 10% body fat to have great abs. If you’re a woman you need to get below 16%. Now, the second part of the question is how do I get to that point? Well a lot of people spend a lot of time in the gym and never really get there. So, let me outline a sure fire strategy to get you to the right body fat percentage so that you can have great abs.

The foundation of this strategy is solid nutrition. Stay away from overly processed and highly refined foods such as soda, potato chips, candy bars and even white rice. Eat brown rice instead of white rice and wheat bread as opposed to white bread. The fact of the matter is that you want to eat foods as close to the way nature intended you to eat them. Eat raw or steamed vegetable, eat fresh fruit and nuts. Eat lean beef and bison, chicken, turkey and fish. You should also eat 4-6 small meals a day rather than 3 large meals.

Now that we’ve got a solid nutritional foundation let’s move on to burning fat. Did you know that the more muscle you carry the more fat you burn? So let’s start building muscle by doing compound exercises like the bench press and dead lift, the military press and squats. These types of exercises burn many more calories than curling and flies because they work multiple muscle groups rather than concentrating on one. These exercises also increase your resting rate of metabolism so you are burning more body fat over a longer period of time.

The next step is to develop a cardio regimen to effectively burn fat. You would think that the more miles you run the better. Not necessarily. While running a mile burns more calories than doing to 100 meter dashes, the sprints actually increase your metabolism so that you are burning more calories throughout the day.

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