What you need to know about six-pack abs
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In the world of fitness, aside from the most common question on how to lose weight faster, the other question that we often hear from people is, “What abdominal exercises do I need to do to have a flatter tummy?”
First of all, do you really need to do hundreds of crunches everyday to lose your belly fat or develop six-pack abs? The purpose of this article is not to discourage you, but to help you achieve your fitness goals by modifying your focus during exercise.
Realize that we have deeper and superficial muscles that you need to work on.
In the recent Stott Pilates course I took, I realized how important it is to balance fitness training by working on the deeper muscles of our body, like the transversus abdominis, before focusing first on the more superficial ones like the rectus abdominis (the muscle responsible for the six-pack abs).
These are muscles that we need to strengthen to make our movements more functional. We need to train our muscles as stabilizers and not only as mobilizers, to maximize performance potential and get the right balance.
Source: Inquirer.net