The Key to Great Abs

The misperception of having washboards abs is doing daily sit-ups and crunches. I see so many people in the gym doing every ab workout to man, but they never see any progress. Great abs is not indicative of how many sit-ups you do. It is indicative of being lean and having a low body fat percentage. For guys it is 10 percent and under for women it is 14 percent and under.

If you don’t have the genetics to look that lean naturally you will have to diet down to get your abs to be visible. This means eating 4 to 6 small meals a day and what this does is that it acts as a catalyst in speeding up your metabolism. Your diet should consist of high quality protein such as chicken, turkey and fish. Complex carbs are also great for attaining great abs because of the extra energy you get through digestion.

Another way to diet down is to reduce the calories you intake daily. It is not rocket science that the less food you eat the less calories you consume. The key thing to remember is that great abs comes from very low body-fat it doesn’t come from a 1000 sit-ups a day. Many of the great male bodybuilders and fitness models don’t even do as many sit-ups as the average person that works out in the gym. They have great abs because their body-fat is between 3-6%.

Anytime a person comes up to me and says I want to have great abs like you. The first thing I tell them is to do a hydrostatic body-fat test. Generally when I say this I always get a weird look and then I try to explain to them what a hydrostatic body-fat test is. A hydrostatic body-fat test is the most accurate body-fat test in the world. Your body-fat percentage is registered by dunking your whole body underneath water while exhaling.

This underwater body-fat test will determine where you are body-fat percentage wise and will give you a great gauge of what you need to do to get your body-fat percentage down to start seeing your abs.

Remember we all have abs and anybody can get abs but the main thing to understand that are genetics dictates how much each person has to work out to get those great abs.