Everytime I speak with people wanting to lose weight, I never fail to be thrown the perennial ‘abs question’: “Will I ever get a six-pack if I get into a Washington, DC fitness training?” I answer with full conviction, “Yes, you will, because yes, you can.”
Yes, anybody can get washboard abs with the right exercise. The only trouble is that most people are doing the wrong exercise.
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It can be pretty overwhelming to see a lot of really busy people, trying to squeeze in a little time for the gym, hoping to get fantastic abs with aerobic exercises. There is nothing wrong with aero; in fact, this exercise comes in highly recommended… for those who want to strengthen their cardiovascular system. But for the ladies and gents who are growing tired of sporting protruding bellies in their Washington, DC offices and social gatherings, aerobic fitness training can be very insignificant and FRUSTRATING in achieving washboard abs, and much more, fat loss.
Truth of the matter is, EVERYONE has great abdominals. You’re just not seeing yours today because your abs’ natural shape has been covered by the investment you made with bottomless chips and sodas on lazy weekends. The technique to getting great stomach is simple: lose the fat, uncover the true shape of your abs.
While the USDA has recommended 60-90 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous aero (think of reaching your target heart rate and going a little over it) to achieve fat loss, evidences show the ineffectiveness of this recommendation in weight loss goal. Studies have revealed that those who engage in this USDA approved fat loss training lost a total of 6.5lbs of body fat per year. You try so hard to shell out more than an hour of your ever-busy Washington, DC life for fitness training everyday, and you achieve a scanty 6.5lbs fat loss after 365 days? That can’t be fair, can it?
Aerobic training can be a little bit overrated.
So what exercise can lose the fat and give us drool-worthy stomachs? A routine that’s been proven to help individuals lose the fat fast, of course! A tailored weight and interval training exercises to fit your current fitness level and availability for exercises will do the trick!
Why Weight Training?
A responsible Washington, DC fitness trainer must never forget Weight training or Resistance exercises in your routine. There are several benefits of weight training and our main focus is its ability to increase muscle mass.
More muscles in the body than fat will mean that you have a leaner body. This is among the factors the affect an individual’s metabolism (other factors are: age, gender, built, diet, exercise, gender, etc.). It is important to up your metabolism’s ante so that you burn more fat in less time.
You will never increase muscle mass (metabolism or tone) with aerobic training.
Why Interval Training?
So you’ve increased your metabolism, what’s next? Take it a little further by allowing your body to crush more calories even after workout! Not possible? Think again.
Interval training allows your metabolism to be revved up till 36 hours post-workout. We call this, the afterburn. A study in 1994 concluded that the interval training group, who worked-out for 15 weeks, lost 9 times the amount of fat than the endurance training (aerobics) group who trained for 20 weeks.
Nice, washboard abs is possible. You just have to be with the right Washington, DC fitness trainer to prescribe you the right mixture of interval training and weight exercises!
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Josef Brandenburg is an award-winning, Washington, DC-based fitness trainer who specializes in helping normal, busy people create the bodies they want in the time that they actually have for exercise. You can find out more about him at www.thebodyyouwant.com.