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How to Get a 6 Pack Fast Doing Crunches

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By Alex Baker
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For some of us, it was Bruce Lee in "Enter the Dragon." For others, perhaps Brad Pitt in "Fight Club." It was that moment you looked up at the movie screen and saw a rippling six-pack of perfection and then looked down at your own flabby stomach with popcorn kernels stuck in the fold of your flab and thought, "I'm gonna be like that."

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging
Instructions
  1. Step 1

    Create a caloric deficit. No amount of ab crunching can penetrate through body fat that's more than 3/4 inch thick. Creating a caloric deficit will cause your body to burn the belly fat that stands in the way of you revealing your well-sculpted abs to the world. Eat less, and increase your aerobic activity.

  2. Step 2

    Create a space where you can perform your ab exercises. If you belong to a gym, you have an advantage as your gym is bound to have several options for doing abdominal crunches.

    If you don't have a gym membership, simply find an area of carpet or floor where you have enough room to lay on your back with your knees bent. If the floor is hard, you may want a mat to lay on.

  3. Step 3

    Do your ab crunches on a regular basis. If you're serious about attaining fast results, you'll want to do them at least five days a week. Although it's tempting, don't do them every day as your muscles need rest days to rebuild and increase in size.

  4. Step 4

    Push yourself on the intensity and number of reps you do as you crunch your abs. As a rule, double the amount of crunches you are comfortable with. This means if you can get to 50 before it becomes difficult do 100. If 100 is no problem, do 200.

Tips & Warnings
  • Suck your abs in as you crunch them. As you build them up, you want them to appear as defined and sculpted, and not as protruding like a gut. Provided you don't have an excess of body fat to get in the way, 100 to 200 crunches should begin to produce results in a matter of weeks.
  • Be sure that as you crunch your abs you isolate your abdominal muscles. Many people make the mistake of exerting or straining their back or neck muscles when doing abs. All tension should be in your abs.

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