Everybody who’s committed to their health and physical fitness wants 6 pack abs. I guess I should rephrase that, every man and MOST women want 6 pack abs. The problem is most people are very misinformed as to the best 6 pack abs workout. You see the ads on TV all the time they give someone with a beer gut this new phenomenal abdominal machine or devise and right before your eyes they have lost all their belly fat. The women get a flat stomach and the men get their 6 pack. And they always include the disclaimer “results not typical”.
The good news is you already have the 6 pack abs everybody wants. The bad news is it’s covered in fat. The truth is those machines will strengthen your abs but they won’t bring your abs forward through the fat. This is because you can’t localize fat burning; your body pulls fat proportionately from all over your body. 90% of all weight loss is diet and, of course, the remaining 10% is workout. If you do everything right in the gym and take in more than your body needs you won’t see those abs. If you rarely workout but your diet is spot on you honestly will start to see those abs under there.
I’ve given advice many times before about proper diet and nutrition and any one of those sound programs could work as a 6 pack abs diet. Having incorporated that eating plan into your lifestyle, the thing that the TV ab machines and other ab exercises will do for you is build the ab muscles and deepen the space between the muscle. So some of what you see on the TV ads is true, you will get the abs you have always wanted if you buy their machine or do the workout but, it is up to you to lose the fat.
Something else that I have been asked a few times is, “What body fat percentage do I need to be for my abs to come out”? Well that is different for women and men; women will start to see their abs around 15% and men around 11%. If you want that six pack you will get it just don’t quit!