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Let’s face it, six pack abs are the end goal of a lot of men and women. They’re a status symbol in a good deal of ways. They shout: “I care when it comes to my body and I work in truth hard to maintain it.” For most people, six pack abs are a pipe dream. However, if you’re more than willing to put in a strong effort and focus on eating well and exercising hard, you may one day realize this dream.

The 2 Rules of Six Pack Abs

Before I get into specific ab exercises, I need to lay out a few ground rules, ala Brad Pitt in Fight Club:

1. The original rule of six pack abs is that you need to have low body fat

2. The second rule of six pack abs is that you NEED to have low body fat

Generally speaking, if you’re not beneath 10% body fat, you likely won’t be competent to see your abs even if you have an exceptionally strong core. To reduce your body fat under 10% is outside the scope of this article, but you’ll need to focus on a calorie restrictive diet to burn fat and resistance training to make sure maintenance of muscle. Throw in a lot of high intensity interval training (HIIT) to accelerate fat loss as well. Unfortunately the only other ingredient is time. If you diet and exercise in a proper manner, you will lose body fat.

Renegade Rows

Assuming your body fat is low sufficient and you’d like to tighten up your core, renegade rows are an magnificent abdominal strengthening exercise. To carry out renegade rows, take a set of dumbbells and get in a pushup position (the “up” position) with your feet disseminate when it comes to shoulder width apart. With one arm, tardily pull the dumbbell up to the side of your body without twisting and tardily lower it. Repeat with the other arm; this is one rep. Renegade rows require you to tense up your abs to maintain your balance. I commend starting with very light dumbbells until you get the form correct. Try to aim for 3 sets of 5 reps. This may be a dangerous exercise if you cannot maintain your balance. If the arm that is in contact with the ground slips, there is not one thing to stop you from falling face first.

The Plank

Anyone involved with yoga is conscious of the plank. So how did it make it is way into the best ab exercises? Well, it doesn’t require any compression of the back and forces you to tense up your abs. To carry out a plank, get in a pushup position (the “down” position) with your stomach on the ground and feet together. Instead of lifting with your hands, raise your body up on your forearms and toes and hold the position. You may not feel anything at primary but after a minute, keeping your back perfectly straight becomes very challenging. Try to do 2 minutes.

If the regular plank becomes too easy, you may add weight to your back. Additionally, if you’d like to give rise to your obliques further, then undertake performing side planks by resting on one forearm with your body perpendicular to the ground.

The Crunch: Your Worst Enemy

I can’t talk regarding a six pack abs routine without talking in regards to crunches. These are not on my commended list. Crunches put a strain on your lower back as you contract your abs forward. The best parallel I may provide is that you wouldn’t bend at your back to pick up a heavy box; you would squat and use your legs. What are crunches but a horizontal version of a back bend? Recall that the function of abs is to keep your spine straight. Are you genuinely instructing your abs to keep your spine straight by continuously bending your back?

Burn Fat to Showcase Your Six Pack Abs

Renegade rows and planks may support you sculpt actually specified six pack abs. However, without low sufficient body fat, those specified six pack abs might just be sitting beneath a layer of fat. Don’t think that you may spot reduce that fat by doing crunches either. You’ll only wind up with a sore lower back. You’re much better off focusing on a calorie restrictive diet, resistance training, and HIIT. The best six pack abs routine utilizes renegade rows, planks, or other exercises that implicate keeping your spine straight. If you work hard to lower your body fat and carry out these exercises, you’ll be capable to sculpt six pack abs in no time.

Fitness Abs Attack Exercise Routine 2

Awarded DVD of the Month in December 2006 by SHAPE magazine!

NO TIME TO EXERCISE? We have the solution for you – the 10 Minute Solution! Everyone may find at least ten minutes in their day, and we’ve devised 5 fun and energetic dance routines that are just 10 minutes each. You’ll get outstanding cardio and toning gains from the ten minute segments – designed to fit into even the busiest of schedules. Split them into 5 mini dance parties, or mix and match to hit your own distinguishable problem areas … or do all of them together for an unbelievable 50-minute dance blast! SIMPLE SLIMMER “Get down” and shape up with a lot of simple, fun dance moves that even a non-dancer may enjoy. CALORIE MELTDOWN This segment takes it up just a notch – it’s full of energy and a real calorie-burner. FAT BURNING PARTY This dance party is for everyone – let loose, have fun and melt away those extra pounds! BUTT & THIGH BLASTER The Butt & Thigh Blaster is more than a dance party – it’s your way to ultimately get jiggle-free buns and thighs! AB ATTACK Really whittle your middle as you move and groove. This set is quintessentially designed to attack and flatten those abs.

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309 of 312 people found the following review helpful.
A pleasant surprise–a fun, easy-to-learn, yet INTENSE dance workout!
By Beth Cholette
I wasn’t sure whether I would like this workout–as I’ve become a more progressed exerciser, I’ve tended to move away from exercise DVDs which offer short segments, as I have found that these ordinarily aren’t intense sufficient to provide me with a good workout. Therefore, I was enjoyably suprrised upon attempting Fat Blasting Dance Mix a discovering that my heart rate was in my target fat-burning zone for almost the entire workout! Plus, the moves were fun and comparatively easy to pick up after a few times through.

Overall, this video reminded me a bit of Dance Off the Inches: Calorie Blasting Party. Instructor Jennifer Galardi is a bit similar in style to the instructor from that video, even though more low-key, which I prefer. Also, rather than instructing the moves at three dissimilar tempos as in the Dance Off series (which I didn’t like because it causes my heart rate to drop), Jennifer teaches by building on dissimilar distinct elements of each move. For example, original she’ll instruct you a simple leg move such as a step out, then she’ll integrate a bit more of a dancey feel, and finally, she’ll add arms to finish the exercise. In each of the five segments, she teaches the moves in an add-on style, in the end taking it from the top so that you may run through the entire sequence (but because each segment is short and there are only five or so total moves, it never feels like the compoundings are overly long).

One of the best things regarding this DVD is that it is programmable–ie, there is a menu which allows you to mix and match any of the five segments to formulate your own customized workout, which I loved. Three of the segments are cardio-focused–Simple Slimmer, Calorie Meltdown, Fat Blasting Party–while the last two are more toning-oriented–Butt & Thigh Blaster, Ab Attack–although still intense sufficient to develop a cardio effect. The cardio segments gradually get more intense, with SS containing the most basic moves, CM taking it up a notch, and FBP adding a bit more affect with numerous hops and jumps. Both toning segments were performed completely in a standing position, pairing galore traditionalisti strength training moves (eg, lunges, crunches) with dancey choreography, which I found to be fun and different.

I enjoyed this video, specially the programmable aspect and the unique, dancey toning segments. I would unquestionably commend this DVD to any person who enjoys dance workouts and who is capable to pick up choreography with a slightly-beyond-basic complexity level.

Update 12/11/06: The more I use this video, the more I like it! It’s one of the only dance videos I’ve ever owned which gets my heart rate up speedily and keeps it there. I find myself mixing and matching the respective segments often. If I could modify my rating to 5 stars, I would–very highly recommended!

119 of 119 persons found the following review helpful.
Fun and motivating
By Little Miss Cutey
Jennifer Galardi is an outgoing and motivating instructor and she makes you feel like you’re having fun and in truth happy to be exercising. You may buy this workout already on other online web sites and I’ve had it for a week now and I’m in truth enjoying it.
Three of the 10 minute segments are aerobic and one is butt and thigh and the last segment is an ab workout. The cardio ones are challenging but short (which I guess is good if you are wanting to get fit or increase fitness rather than maintain fitness). Obviously you may do all together or mix and match. The way the dvd is set up, you may arrange to play them in any order. The routines are all very dancy but yet not tricky and so this is very fun to do.
I commend this if you are wanting to boost your fitness, but if you are fit already, you may not find this challenging enough. It’s cued very well and gratifying to do. Jennifer is a good instructor.

47 of 48 people found the following review helpful.
Gets you moving!
By Mirage08
I have 3 of the other 10 minute solution workouts and I receive pleasure from those. This one is not exception. It’s fun, gets you moving and sweating. Also the moves are easy to pick up as well. Definite recommendation!

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