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Summary: Getting six-pack abs is not easy and requires careful attention to diet and caloric intake. Get six-pack abdominals with tips from a fitness trainer in this free video on ab exercises.
Les Whitley is the director of Velocity Sports Performance in Cool Springs, Tennessee. He has 12 years of experience in the field of health and fitness. He is a former ISKA Kickboxing...read more
"Hi, I'm Les Whitley. I like to talk to you right now about how to get great six-pack abs. Six-pack abs are very tough to achieve. It requires a lot of discipline and a lot of dedicated effort in a very strict diet. The exercises you do are an important part, but the dietary intake is the most critical component. You have to modify your diet so that you're minimizing your overall body fat levels, getting down into below the ten percent into the single digits to really maximize the impact to see those hard results. You can have great tone strong abdominal muscles, but unless you reduce the overall body fat level, you're never going to see them. To have those great six-pack abs requires a lot of discipline and a very strict diet. Taking in and understanding the type of foods that you have, fresh fruits and vegetables to a degree, but then modifying and limiting the amount of carbohydrates and sugars, to use the overall body fat that you have as an energy source as you begin altering and modifying the diet. Taking in plenty of proteins to sustain the muscular levels so as not to use the protein of the body, of the muscles of the body for energy source. This requires a lot of time and a lot of energy and may even require the consultant of a professional. For those who've actually achieve those levels and understand how nutrition plays a part in achieving those very low levels of body fat, can be a great resource for you. So be consistent, be patient and work very hard as that diet becomes the essential key to you achieving those six-packs abs."
eHow Article: How to Get Six-Pack Abs