Abs Exercise Will Not Burn Abdominal Flab

I am constantly being asked what the best stomach movement is to get flat abdominals. One of the largest myths that I have to deal with on a daily basis is the myth that abdominal training burns abdominal flab. Everybody has different amounts of flab on their abdominal, and for most of those people a way to successfully get rid of that abdominal flab is yet to be found.

Their mistake is often in looking for the wrong training methods and movements in order to lose their hard to move abdominal flab. For most they continue to search for the mythical holy grail of abs training, the right combination of movements using the right equipment to finally move that stubborn abdominal flab almost instantly.

I wish they did but stomach specific training will not burn flab from your abdominal. All they do is strengthen and develop the ab muscles underneath the abdominal flab. The only real way to burn flab is to create a higher metabolic rate and to increase the flab burning hormone response, this can be done with a strategic total body training program not by training relatively small muscles with small movements.

The traditional long slow cardio workouts don’t really create the effect you need from your hormones and metabolism either. Creating a complete program focusing on using multi joint and total body resistance training movements and using a high intensity in your workouts is key to getting more fat loss from your program.

This method of training using high intensity total body movements and making sure to eat a healthy diet, is a fool proof way to getting rid of the flab covering up your abs. This is far more effective than hoping that doing heaps of abdominal crunches will burn up the flab on your stomach, research and experience proves this simply will never work.

It still amazes me how most people still believe that you have to do these useless stomach movements to lose flab from your abdominal, and do hundreds of repetitions every day of the week. It is crazy how many people still advance this myth on the fitness forums every hour of the day. Please please please don’t waste your time and effort following advice like this.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate stomach movements. The right movements done usefully in your program can be great for toning and strengthening your abdominal. Doing these stomach movements to help strengthen and tone your muscles is a good strategy and they provide additional benefits like helping your back and posture when they are done correctly (although they can also make your back hurt if done incorrectly), but if you are looking to burn flab from your abs the fact is doing these movements as your strategy to lose flab is not the right idea and will leave you disappointed.

Using the right combination of total body resistance training and making sure your diet is healthy are the best things you can do to see your six pack abs. You will also find that doing full body movements really do work the abs, as they are very important in their role as stabilisers of your body, some would say even more important than their ability to crunch.