Abdominal Training Without Doing Abdominal Training

Today I’m going to show you how to really train your abs for success by increasing your metabolism and fat burning ability in 10 minutes or less without telling you to do a crunch or any stomach exercise.

The first thing that probably comes to mind when someone says, “abdominal training” are sit ups and crunches.

Well, as the fitness industry becomes more advanced and fuses it’s gap with therapeutic medicine and fitness coaches are becoming more skilled in our profession as experts, it becomes more clear as how to solve one of the most notorious trouble areas on the body: The abdomen.

We now know in order to decrease the size in circumference of the stomach, situps and crunches are not the answer. In fact, studies show how unsafe they may be on the spine. The answer to solving your belly delimma is through training the Transversus Abdominus and Obliqus muscles instead.

These muscles lie beneath the outer stomach wall (the six-pack) and are responsible for the “tucking in” or “vacuuming” of the abomen. In addition, there is not one single motion your body can do without activating these muscles. Therefore many routines you are doing at our training sessions are in fact working the stomach.
Furthermore, if you take several exercises that target the entire body and combine them in a circuit training routine, not only will you build muscle faster, leading to a spike in your metabolism, but in moving from station to station in a circuit will act a cardiovascular routine thus helping you to burn more calories from fat. This in turn leads to a smaller waisteline without you spending time with overtrained abs doing stomach-specific workouts.

We all have a six-pack. Our goal should be to expose that muscle by eliminating the fat laying on the stomach. And, the way you accomplish this goal is by:

1. Increase your metabolism with compound-movement weight training (circuit training)

2. High Intensity Interval Training (circuit training using at least 5 total body exercises)

Thursday, I’ll give you another example through a workout on training the abs without doing any abodominal training. As for now, heres a great workout you can try that should demolish you but definately decrease your waist size. I’ve specifically chosen some of the most effective exercises that indirectly target the abdomen while causing havoc to the rest of the body.

Make it Happen!

Each exercise is performed for 20 seconds with 10 secconds of rest before moving to the next station of the 6 exercise circuit. Complete 3 – 5 sets (depending on your fitness level) with little to no more rest than the 10 seconds alotted between each exercise.

1. KB Swing
2. Burpee
3. Overhead Lunge
4. Curl and Shoulder Press
5. BW Rows

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