Are You Still Looking For Those 6 Pack Abs?

You’re getting discouraged, and it’s not surprising, because you have worked on those six pack abdominals for ever, and they are still not showing. What more do I need to do besides crunches to get them developed enough to show as a perfect set of six pack abs?

To start with, you are not the only one to whom this has happened, there are a lot of people in this boat, so don’t give up yet, and with a few changes, your abs and six pack will be defined very soon. Despite our best intentions, which can be seen by the number of crunches we do every day, not every one can get their abdominals to show. You know that your abdominal muscles are way stronger, nevertheless they still don’t show, so what exactly is going on? Well, what you need to do first is to make absolutely certain that it is your abs that you are targeting in your crunches, an also make sure that you are not rushing them. For many workout enthusiasts, it is the number they can do in a fixed time that is important, but that lowers the standard of the exercise. To be more beneficial, you need to hold each contraction of the abs for a few seconds, and if you are rushing to beat the latest record of number of the crunches in two minutes, then you cannot do this, and the exercises will not be as successful for you. So slow the exercises you are doing, and improve the quality of your exercises, and any other exercises you do that target the abdominal muscles.

The next thing you need to do is to discover what your body fat ratio is – if you are a gym member, you can get weighed there and the scales will be able to tell you your body fat ratio if your bathroom scales don’t tell you. Your body fat ratio should be around 12, but if your ratio is much higher than this, then that confirms why your six pack abdominals are not defined. The body fat ratio is an indicator to inform you how much body fat you have, and the higher the number, the more fat you have. The more fat you have, the more layers of fat are covering your abs muscles, so provided you have been doing your exercises the right way, your abs will be well defined but just hidden by too much fat.

Okay, if too much is the cause of your abs to not be defined as great six pack abdominals what are your options? You obviously need to lose some of those fat layers, and abs exercises alone will not do this for you. You need to do some cardio workouts, to lose some fat. Now this doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to workout even longer in the gym daily. You will probably spend less time on your abs exercises, and more time doing cardio. If you can eat a little less, you will be well on your way to losing some fat. Make sure your diet is healthy for you, and not over doing the drinks. Occasional drinks are fine, but drinking alcohol on a regular basis is just providing your body with too many unneccessary calories.

So, to summarize, do your exercises appropriately, lose some body fat and your 6 pack abdominals will be defined and showing like those on others you’ve been jealously watching.

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