subject: Six Pack Workout - 3 Reasons Your Six Pack Workout Isn't Showing Any Results [print this page] If your six pack workout is flimsy, your quest for abs is a lost cause. This workout isn't about what you think it is though. It is time to finally trash all of the mistakes you've been making and put you back on track to get amazing abs.
The first priority of your six pack workout must be to burn calories. The majority of people lack a six pack not due to lack of the six pack muscles, but because their body fat percentage is too high to be able to see those muscles.
If your heart rate isn't high enough during your workout, you have the wrong focus. You can either increase the pace of the individual exercises, or decrease the cool-down between exercises to achieve this end. You ought to be sweating profusely by the end of your workout.
Next, ab exercises don't burn a lot of calories so they should be used to build or maintain muscle (roughly same training style, just depends on your diet and a handful of other factors as to which happens). These ends achieved with low to mid rep ab exercises. Over 20 reps is normally considered endurance training. Traditional ab workout styles often demand you add weight to have a decent workout in this rep range. For ab work, this is usually either held on the chest, behind the head, or between the feet, depending on which side you are lifting.
The last mistake is the missing element of consistency. What I am referring to is the constant frequency of your six pack workouts. Three times or more each week is what you ought to be aiming for.
If you do not maintain some sort of schedule like this, you will never gain any momentum. It may also shift your calorie balance from a deficit to a surplus, especially if you are only working out a few times per week. Missing or putting off a workout every once in a while wouldn't be so bad if that's all it was, but normally its missing "just one" that causes you to gradually stop altogether.
