Six Pack Workout: What’s Really Involved?

So you see them on all the fitness mags. You can’t escape them. They are on the racks of every grocery store mocking you. I am talking of course about the elusive six pack abs that have a funny way of making you feel like a loser if you don’t have them.

You’ve feel like you have tried all the workouts, you go to the gym all the time, maybe you bought that expensive ab gizmo you saw advertised on tv. but your abs still look flabby.

The purpose of this article is to clear things up and put you on the right six pack workout to getting the hard rippled abs that you deserve. The first misunderstanding about abs comes from an optical illusion.

The rippled look makes it look like the stomach area is made up of several different muscles. But the fact is that is only one muscle.

The illusion of several different muscle groups has launched a ridiculous amount of exersises aimed at upper and lower abs. This would be like trying to workout your upper or lower bicep.

It is only a single muscle and all muscles perform one function: they contract. So the only true way to work your stomach muscle is one that forces it to contract under stress.

This is why leg lift exercises are almost useless. Most of the action of this exercise is done by the hips. The pressure to stabilize your spine during this exercise causes a lactic acid burn which makes you feel like you are working your abdominal muscle really well but you are not.

The most effective six pack workout is one that focuses mainly on contracting the abdominal and nothing else. This brings us to the old fashioned sit up.

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Sit ups are an okay six pack workout but they have a lot of wasted motion in them. It is not required to sit all the way up and touch your elbow to your knee. Your abdominal muscle is fully contracted when your shoulders are five to six inches off the ground.

After that you aren’t really working out the abdominal at all. This is where crunches come in. Crunches are like half sit ups where you only come up about half way and then go back down.

You can also use weights by either holding onto a barbell plate while doing them or use one of the crunch machines at the gym. But the bad news is that you can do crunches until the end of time and still not see a six pack.

You might have a six pack but no one will see it as long as you have a layer of fat covering it up. It takes more than a good six pack workout to look ripped. That is why you have to eat right and do some cardio to burn off that extra fat.

This will not only give you that six pack that you are after but give you a lean ripped muscle look too. For more tips on getting that muscular look, see my resource below.

To find out more about getting that ripped muscle look with an effective six pack workout, Plus a $27 report from a skinny guy who gained 41lbs. of solid muscle in 6 months for FREE, CLICK HERE or go to http://secretweightliftingworkouts.com

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