How to Eat for Your Abs

Series Summary

Many people want to lose weight. Yet, despite claims for quick fat burning pills and powders, the best way to lose weight is still through proper diet and exercise. Exercise does more than just maintain physical fitness. Working out improves bone density, muscle strength and joint mobility. Being fit also reduces general health risks, boosts the immune system and helps with depression and insomnia. Whether exercising is to lose weight or improve muscle mass, working out promotes a healthy body and mind. In this free video series on exercise and fitness, a nationally-certified personal trainer demonstrates various ab exercises. Find out how to eat right for the abs by eliminating process foods from the diet, and get a six-pack with crunches, hip lifts and sit-ups. Develop the abdominal muscles with these simple exercises, and even find out how to safely work the abs during pregnancy. Strong abs build a healthy core for optimum fitness.

Video Transcript

"You know every time I turn around I see a magazine that says, get a six pack, eat this, don't eat that, trim down. How do you do it? How do you really eat right for a six pack? How do you eat right to get those abs that you really really want. Hi my name is Jani Roberts and I am a National Certified Personal Trainer and also a graduate of the American Academy of Nutrition. Today I would like to share some tips with you. Now obviously if you are just starting to exercise for the first time it's going to be a whole lot different if you are a hard core and you have been training for quite some time. So let's start with a beginner. First of all you know you have got to change the diet and you know you have got to exercise so start incorporating the exercise three times a week and just gradually start to make those nutritional changes. Maybe talk to a trainer or a nutritionist to give you some tips. Don't listen to everything you hear on the radio, certainly not in the media, what you read in magazines. Really there is usually a product attached to that and it is usually a short fix anyway. Now if you are somebody who is a die hard and you get so close but you don't quite get that six pack here are some tips that will make a difference. First of all cut back on your reps a little bit. I know that you have been told do a million reps, do a million abdominal reps, it will get you there, not necessarily. Start shortening the range of motion that you are going through and start a little bit of weighted sit up work. Slow it down. Use your own body weight as resistance and really concentrate on your breathing, your form and your technique while you are doing it. Maybe have some manual resistance applied by maybe your buddy that you work out with or your trainer, that is really key too. I think really using your own body weight for resistance is great way and also really being aware of your core when you are training throughout your hour when you are with your trainer or in the gym. You've got to look at that. Now what are you eating? Is there a lot of fat? Is there not enough too fat, too many processed carbohydrates? That's usually the case. People are eating a lot of stuff out of boxes and bags but not a lot of quality carbs, so think quality carbs, low fat but good fat and keep that protein up because remember without protein we can't build muscle. I'm Jani Roberts, enjoy that six pack."