Best Way To Lose Abdominal Weight - Part 3
In order to lose fat, our primary goal should be to increase our metabolism and not store any more fat by eating including too many calories in our diet. The fat that will be lost will be lost throughout the whole body and proportionately. The same goes for muscles. People think that isolating certain muscles such as the biceps, and doing countless amount of bicep curls will help them develop huge biceps. The body responds to progressive overload. Period. You have to place a greater stress on your body than the previous workout in order to build muscle. This also explains why people who workout the legs and doing exercises such as squats will stimulate maximum growth, and create a well-developed upper body. Yes you read that correctly. You can develop a huge upper body by working out your legs, with exercises such as the squat. The reason is because these compound exercises (multi-joint exercises), place the greatest stress on the muscles and nervous system, and forces it to grow and develop. That’s why squats are considered king for developing a lean muscular body. You want to use compound exercises as much as you can so you can place the most stress on your body in the shortest amount of time.
The other parts of the body will naturally develop since they will also be worked out. For example, when you are doing a pushing movement such as bench press for your chest, you will simultaneously be working out your triceps and shoulders. When you do a pulling movement such as overhand pull-ups or lat pull downs for your back, you are also working out your biceps. When you do squats for your quadriceps, you are also working the abdominals, shoulders, and hamstrings. So the point to take home is that your body is simultaneously working out many things at once, even if you think that only one thing is being worked. The body works as a whole, not as parts!
Now one can argue, what’s the point of working out the rest of the body and do only squats, if all systems in the body are affected at once? Well it has everything to do with the overall development. Doing only squats can develop your overall body, but you also want to stimulate every major body part so that you get maximum stimulation for that particular body part. And you don’t need to do that a whole lot either. Only working out each body part once per week for a total of 5-6 sets for that body part can help you develop an amazing body. You should also take each set to muscular failure, the point where you cannot do another repetition, without breaking your good form. This is when you should set down your weights and rest for a few minutes or until you feel ready to go for the next set. For ab exercises such as swiss ball crunches, it is best to start with basic crunches and then slowly increase the intensity of the exercise by making it more challenging. You can use different positions on the ball as it gets easier, or even add weights to continually make progress. Exercises such as rope crunches are great because you really work the abdominals, and you can make progress by using the set weight on the machine. Usually I don’t recommend doing machine, but there are a few exercises that can be extremely beneficial.
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