In order to maximize your ability to get sexy 6 pack abs in a short period of time, it's necessary to do some exercise. Now most people think that exercises that target stomach muscles will somehow work out their stomach area and give them a flat belly. In reality, it's not like this at all. To get a flat stomach requires 2 things:
1. 80% of your efforts should be focused on losing the fat that covers your stomach
2. 20% of your efforts should be on getting lean muscle underneath the fat.
So it's necessary to do cardio stomach exercises then? In a traditional sense, NO! If you have been advised to do cardio to help you lose stomach fat, you are setting yourself up for a long and unnecessarily painful journey that will 9/10 times result in failure. Traditional cardio methods focus on getting you into the "fat-burning-zone" so that you maximize caloric expenditure and thus burn the maximum amount of fat. This method is damn near hopeless because it massively limits your fat loss to the amount you can lose whilst exercising.
When you think just a little outside the "box", you realize that you can actually gear your fat burning to get 10 times better results through boosting your metabolism and it's an easy thing to do.
Effectively, choosing the right cardio stomach exercises allows you to:
- Burn more fat
- Burn fat beyond the time that you work out (for up to 48 hours after exercise)
- Get a lean stomach whilst also getting rid of belly fat
So what are these magic cardio stomach exercises?
First of all, the aim here is to get a metabolic boost to allow you to burn more fat, faster and while you are not working on it.
Exercises that can achieve better stomach results:
- Weighted circuits - A higher intensity, more functional type of cardio that loads your muscles with more weight, adding a lean muscle effect to your cardio stomach workouts.
- HIIT - A special type of cardio based on intervals of work and rest. This provides a huge amount of your "metabolic muscle" so to speak.
- Weight training - This is not cardio but will compliment the cardio that you do by adding lean muscle mass (a huge fat burner) to your body gradually.
That's it! The best cardio stomach workouts are a combinational workout that uses weights, intervals and nutritional tactics to maximize fat loss.
