Our step 41 in Year to six pack abs week 41 is an important reminder. People easily go off the track here for simple reason. The mainstream advice follows exactly the opposite advice. And it is: For losing fat and getting Six Pack Abs, the most effective kind of exercise is intensive regular strength training and interval training. And the popular mainstream advice including your doctor says: Go for a longer 20 minutes and more cardiovascular exercise 3-4 times per week. Even if they only mean it for cardiovascular health, they are wrong. Strength training and interval training is a winner here too.
Year to six pack abs – week 41 – step 41 video:
http://youtu.be/XNfLksWfgM4
So why strength training and interval training is the best for overall lean body composition and cardiovascular health? For some change to happen in our bodies intensity is important. Yes walking is still fine for overall health. But we don’t have an average goal here in Year to Six Pack Abs program.
Getting your own Six Pack Abs is a big health and fitness goal! It’s not an average goal. So a big change, intensity and impact is necessary. And a big change and benefit to your overall body composition and health happens when intensive short burst of energy in a form of intensive strength training and interval training are applied.
With intensive strength training and interval training, the muscle fiber is pushed to the edge of its ability hardly seen in long chronic cardiovascular exercise. That damages that muscles in a good way and a message is sent to the brain that that muscle needs to be repaired, rebuilded, and possibly added to it some more mass. That creates highly elevated metabolism with high energy needs form the muscles. And paired with a great diet, your body becomes over time a lean fat burning machine. And intensive strength training and interval training is primary responsible for it.
So let me remind you our strength training and interval training steps here:
Six Pack Abs combination of best strength exercises in the world – no gym environment necessary:
Year to six pack abs – week 9 – step 9 – This is a simple strength training to start with start routine.
Year to six pack abs – week 14 – step 14 – You are adding push ups to your Six Pack Abs strength training routine here.
Year to six pack abs – week 17 – step 17 – You are adding squat jumps to your Six Pack Abs strength training routine here.
Year to six pack abs – week 24 – step 24 – You are adding pull ups to your Six a pack Abs strength training routine here.
Year to six pack abs – week 30 – step 30 – You are adding sprints/fast short intervals to your weekly Six Pack Abs exercise routine here.
Year to six pack abs – week 34 – step 34 – You are adding some abdominal exercises to your Six Pack Abs strength training routine here.
So here you have it my fellow Six Pack Abs achiever. No need to go very fancy here. Simple, pure, I sometimes call them the jail exercises where you don’t even need a gym environment will do the Six Pack Abs trick eventually. Of course if intensity and consistency is applied to it too. Now, go and make it happen!
Stand in front of the mirror and scream!
I know what the most effective exercise routine for achieving Six Pack Abs is! It is intensive, consistent strength training with some interval training added to my weekly routine!
I am losing fat, getting stronger, healthier, better looking and my physical and mental performance and energy is rising every day.
My six pack abs is more and more visible on my stomach everyday!
I make things happen! And I am making my own six pack abs happen!
Year to six pack abs series:
Year to six pack abs – week 33 – step 33
Year to six pack abs – week 34 – step 34
Year to six pack abs – week 35 – step 35
Year to six pack abs – week 36 – step 36
Year to six pack abs – week 37 – step 37
Year to six pack abs – week 38 – step 38