Do you think that...?

Question

I`d be able to get a six pack in 6 weeks or less if I did at least 100
crunches+sit-ups a day, do few cardio excercises, and had a healthy diet?

Answer 1

That depends on where you are right now. First, let me dispel the rumors and hit you with the facts: (1) All the crunches in the world won't give anyone six-pack abs. Men have to get their body fat down below 10% and women have to get their body fat below 14% for the six-pack to stand out, and that takes diet and exercise. (2) Cardio is good exercise for stripping away fat, but it can be detrimental if you go too long in your exercise sessions -- anything more than 30 minutes at a time and you risk burning muscle instead of fat, so cap it at 30 minutes and make your cardio workouts more intense if you need to. (3) Diet will make you or break you. You can do everything else right and get nowhere in six weeks if your diet is not in order.

Here are some tips to help you get that six-pack:

-- Walk as much as you want. Walking burns fat and glycogen unlike cardio that burns glycogen alone (that's why you burn muscle if you do too much cardio)

-- High-intensity interval training is a GREAT way to burn fat. It's very simple too. It consists of 8-15 sets of a 30-60 second "sprint" followed by 60-120 seconds of "low pace" cardio. You can do it with virtually any cardio exercise.

-- Even though ab exercises are not your best fat-burning weapon, they ARE your best weapon for strengthening your abs and really making them stand out. You can do ab exercises every day as long as you're not using weights (if you use weights, hit it every other day)

-- Strength training will also help you lose the flab and gain muscle. The best workout for people who are going for a six-pack is circuit training using light weights and doing lots of repetitions. A good basic formula is to start off doing a full-body circuit that hits all the major muscle groups. Do the circuit twice, and on each circuit you do 12-15 reps of each exercise and move on to the next one with as little rest as possible. After two weeks, do the complete circuit three times.

-- The following foods are your ENEMIES: fast food, junk food, soft drinks, and anything with refined flour, refined sugar, high fructose corn syrup, or any type of partially or fully hydrogenated oils. Also, keep saturated fat to a minimum.

-- Here is a list of weight-loss-friendly foods: nuts, beans and legumes, green vegetables, lowfat dairy products, eggs, lean meats, olive oil, whole grain breads/cereals/pasta, and fresh fruits (especially any type of berries). Water and green tea are also your friends, but make sure you're drinking 100% green tea with no sugar, honey, or high fructose corn syrup added.

-- Eating six small meals or snacks a day as opposed to three squares a day is better for you because it keeps your metabolism running high. Eat a little something every three hours or so.

-- People who don't eat breakfast are 450% more likely to be overweight than people who do, so get something to eat within 90 minutes of waking up.

-- Don't forget the science of calories. You need to cut your caloric intake to lose weight, but don't cut it down too far -- no lower than 1,800 calories a day for men and no lower than 1,500 calories a day for women (your body will go into starvation mode and hang on to all your fat while burning muscle instead)

Good luck!

Answer 2

That would be a step in the right direction! It might get you there, but there are also biological and heriditary factors that play into this that you have little to no control over, so there is no guarantee. Even if you don't get a six pack, you'll be much healthier and it will be worth the effort. Good luck!

Answer 3

if you have not been used to exercisivg you need to start off light then work yourself up because you can mess up your muscles right along with your back and can cause you to have spasms

Answer 4

No!