Lower Abs Workout... As easy as taking a bath?

Lower ab workouts are great! We feel the burn but we see no results! That's because the whole principle of spot reduction does not work. The ads and TV commercials we see always claim to get fantastic results by using their product. In fact, you just have to increase your metabolism through resistance training and your body will burn the fat. You will see results!

Lower ab workouts are excellent for toning and strengthening lower abs, but spot exercises can't burn a lot of excess body fat. To really see a difference, you should do full body movement exercises.

We always see advertisements and TV commercials showing acrobatic fitness models, laying upside down and backwards, showing you the latest exercise that will give you fantastic abs or showing some machine that will help you get your abs ripped.

Unfortunately, those ads and machines don't work. They are marketing their products to target the abs directly and that will not work. Spot reducing does not work. The abs will get stronger but they will not burn the necessary fat that is covering the abdominal muscles.

Resistance training is a great way to really get six pack abs. When you train the big muscles of the body with heavy weights, you increase the muscle's overall activity, which results in more energy expended. The muscles end up using up more energy and the body needs to keep providing fuel for the muscles, it will also use the calories that you eat as well as the excess body fat on our body.

Working the body out more causes the muscles to use up more oxygen than is available in muscle stores. So now, the body has to supply more oxygen to the muscles to keep them functioning. In addition, the body has to get rid of any waste materials collected in the muscles as a result of constant muscle work.

This whole supplying, clearing and repairing processes requires a lot of energy and because this process takes awhile to complete, the body is constantly 'working' or metabolism is now raised, and the body starts burning fat.

So you're better off just going to the bathroom when you feel the burn after doing lower ab workouts. This burn is not fat burning. To burn fat and reveal six pack abs, you have to start training with weights in order to raise your metabolism enough to melt abdominal fat away.