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Get Six Pack Abs With These Simple Tips

Everyone wants a flat tummy with six-pack abs, but that takes dedication to your fitness. You'll have to eat right, exercise and shed the fat which is currently covering your abs. Then you'll have to tone them until they stick out like a washboard. The simple tips below will help you achieve the look you desire.

Tip: A good tip to keeping in good shape is joining a health club and when you do, pay for a few months upfront. Not using your membership could make you feel guilty, and more likely to attend.

The first step is to reduce your body fat in order to allow your abs to show through. For men, that means you must have less than 10% body fat, and women will need less than 13%. Of course, everyone is different, so you may need to go lower or be happy with a higher level of body fat.

Tip: If your goal is to become fit and healthy, try to find fitness programs that strengthen your muscles and help you become more flexible. You should easily find many different classes in your area.

You have to exercise your abs efficiently in order to tone them correctly. Just a few sets of a few different exercises is all you need. Skip the sit-ups - they are an ineffective exercise which doesn't offer great results. Do each rep of your core exercises slowly, about 3 seconds up and 3 seconds down. If you want to choose a highly effective exercise, go for crunches as it focuses on the abdominal muscles, ensuring they don't relax.

Tip: It is vital to wear the right type of shoes designed for your specific workouts. If you don't wear shoes which are properly created for specific activities, you increase your risks of incurring injury to your legs and feet.

When it comes to cardio exercises, work in intervals. Complete one minute long exercises between five and nine times with walking in between. If you do this for 20 minutes first thing in the morning, it will provide more calorie burn than an hour of jogging! Why do it first thing? Nothing can get in the way of your work out, so you're more likely to actually do it.

Tip: Do you want to get better results for the effort you spend working out? It has been a proven fact that stretching can build up strength by twenty percent. Between exercises, stretch all muscles involved in the previous exercise for 20-30 seconds.

To boost your metabolism, eat a small meal full of protein, vegetables and fruits, every 3 or 4 hours. Include starches, such as oats, brown rice or whole grin pasta, on days when you engage in resistance training. Engage in this training for 60 minutes three times a week for the greatest effects, and then do your interval cardio three times per week as well. Avoid drinking and smoking to enhance your healthy changes. Don't forget to get your eight hours of sleep every night, too!

Tip: Always make time every day to do your exercises. You can start improving your fitness in small steps, like choosing to take the stairs to your office instead of the elevator.

Setting goals is the best way to motivate yourself. Set short term goals, such as working out today, and longer term goals, such as weight loss or fitness benchmarks. If you set high long-term goals and miss them slightly, you will find you still feel amazed with your accomplishment. If you set reachable short-term goals, you will remain motivated every day.

Tip: Many people need to feel and see results before they keep their motivation. Instead of obsessing about the number on the scale, use some clothes that are a size smaller than your current size to gauge your progress.

Use your friends and family to keep you going during the hard times. That said, spend your time with people who are as health conscious as you are. There is nothing worse than visiting a slovenly, unhealthy friend who does nothing but play video games and eat potato chips. You can't fix them, and it could tempt you into making a choice you regret later. If anyone you know attempts to sabotage your success, cut them out of your life immediately.

There - now you are well on your way to looking amazing! Be sure to use all of the tips in this article in order to get the body of your dreams. Dedicate yourself to making changes and you will see those abs appear in no time.

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