I have a short post and video for you today from Craig Ballantyne and Chris Lopez of Turbulence Training Kettlebell workouts. Do you want slim rock hard abs? Sure you do. So keep reading and find out how kettlebells can get the job done.
When it comes to ab training, crunches and sit-ups need to take a back seat. There is no place for these exercises in our busy lives.
For years fitness “experts” have been telling us to do endless crunches and sit ups to get great abs.
Combine that with the latest low fat diet and hours upon hours of slow boring cardio and - BANG! Instant 6-Pack Abs, right? Soooooo Very Wrong!
That’s why we train with kettlebells.
Because working with Kettlebells allows us to cut through the fluff of the “regular” gym-culture training. We’ve chosen to by-pass the weekend certified trainers. To choose to eat real food instead of the potions that they serve at the juice bar. And to stop doing bicep curls in the squat rack.
Here’s a video that Chris filmed with Craig Ballantyne a few weeks ago showing you the best Bang-For-Your-Buck kettlebell ab exercises…
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
7 Tips To Get A Flat Stomach The Death Of Crunches
I didn't realize how many people were still using crunches to try
and get a flat stomach and six pack abs.
Unfortunately, I have bad news...doing crunches is NOT going to get
you the results you want.
(Although you knew this already, of course, as so many of you also
wrote in with frustration that the crunches were not working.)
So I'm going to prove today what you already knew, and that's how
you NEVER need to do crunches again...here are the 7 reasons:
1) Crunches aren't working for you now, and didn't in the past, so why
would they work in the future? It's time to give them up for good.
You know the old saying about insanity? It's doing the same thing
over and over again and expecting different results.
Time to change it up!
2) Crunches are most dangerous when they are most effective. When
you are overweight, there can be a lot of resistance on the abs
when you do crunches - and technically that is good...
HOWEVER, because your ab and low back muscles are weak, that's
when you use bad form and end up with a pain-in-the-neck or low
back pain from crunches.
So even though crunches can work your abs as a beginner, they end
up causing more harm than good.
As a beginner, you are much better off using the Beginner Turbulence Training for Abs 4-week program AND the bonus DVD, the TT Beginner Total Torso Training program you get here:
3) On the other hand, crunches get LESS effective as you get leaner
and fitter, because there is less resistance on the muscle and
you're now too strong to get anything out of crunches.
Here's a dramatic demonstration of what I mean.
Take your left arm and extend it out to your side. Now clench
your fist and do 20 biceps curls.
Now tell me, do you really think that will "work your biceps" and
make them lean and sexy? Of course not! So why would the same
high-rep method of crunches work for your abs? It won't, of course.
4) A couple of years ago, Men's Health magazine made a big deal about
a research study proving you would need to do 20,000 crunches to
burn 1 pound of belly fat. Twenty thousand!
Even a "crunch fanatic" would need a few days to do 20,000
crunches. The bottom line is that ab crunches are a HUGE waste of
time when you are trying to lose belly fat.
5) Even those lean, mixed martial artist guys don't do crunches. On
the weekend, I was reading an interview with the trainer of world
champion fighter, Georges St. Pierre, and the trainer explained
how they don't do crunches, but instead do anti-rotation and
extension exercises for the abs.
Not sure what those are? Don't worry, you'll get some of those in
the Turbulence Training for Abs workout DVDs here:
6) Interval training works your abs harder than crunches. Whether
it's sprints or kettlebell swings, your abs will shape up faster
with interval training than they will with crunches. Guaranteed.
7) Crunches don't make your abs "pop out". This was a big problem
mentioned in so many of your questions. A lot of TT readers had
lost the fat, but still couldn't see their abs because they didn't
"Pop out".
Listen, crunches will never do that...but the exercises we use in
the TT for Abs DVDs will, I promise.
So when you're ready to give up crunches (like right now, right?)
and use proven ab exercises and workouts, then you're ready for the
Turbulence Training for Abs DVDs.
and get a flat stomach and six pack abs.
Unfortunately, I have bad news...doing crunches is NOT going to get
you the results you want.
(Although you knew this already, of course, as so many of you also
wrote in with frustration that the crunches were not working.)
So I'm going to prove today what you already knew, and that's how
you NEVER need to do crunches again...here are the 7 reasons:
1) Crunches aren't working for you now, and didn't in the past, so why
would they work in the future? It's time to give them up for good.
You know the old saying about insanity? It's doing the same thing
over and over again and expecting different results.
Time to change it up!
2) Crunches are most dangerous when they are most effective. When
you are overweight, there can be a lot of resistance on the abs
when you do crunches - and technically that is good...
HOWEVER, because your ab and low back muscles are weak, that's
when you use bad form and end up with a pain-in-the-neck or low
back pain from crunches.
So even though crunches can work your abs as a beginner, they end
up causing more harm than good.
As a beginner, you are much better off using the Beginner Turbulence Training for Abs 4-week program AND the bonus DVD, the TT Beginner Total Torso Training program you get here:
3) On the other hand, crunches get LESS effective as you get leaner
and fitter, because there is less resistance on the muscle and
you're now too strong to get anything out of crunches.
Here's a dramatic demonstration of what I mean.
Take your left arm and extend it out to your side. Now clench
your fist and do 20 biceps curls.
Now tell me, do you really think that will "work your biceps" and
make them lean and sexy? Of course not! So why would the same
high-rep method of crunches work for your abs? It won't, of course.
4) A couple of years ago, Men's Health magazine made a big deal about
a research study proving you would need to do 20,000 crunches to
burn 1 pound of belly fat. Twenty thousand!
Even a "crunch fanatic" would need a few days to do 20,000
crunches. The bottom line is that ab crunches are a HUGE waste of
time when you are trying to lose belly fat.
5) Even those lean, mixed martial artist guys don't do crunches. On
the weekend, I was reading an interview with the trainer of world
champion fighter, Georges St. Pierre, and the trainer explained
how they don't do crunches, but instead do anti-rotation and
extension exercises for the abs.
Not sure what those are? Don't worry, you'll get some of those in
the Turbulence Training for Abs workout DVDs here:
6) Interval training works your abs harder than crunches. Whether
it's sprints or kettlebell swings, your abs will shape up faster
with interval training than they will with crunches. Guaranteed.
7) Crunches don't make your abs "pop out". This was a big problem
mentioned in so many of your questions. A lot of TT readers had
lost the fat, but still couldn't see their abs because they didn't
"Pop out".
Listen, crunches will never do that...but the exercises we use in
the TT for Abs DVDs will, I promise.
So when you're ready to give up crunches (like right now, right?)
and use proven ab exercises and workouts, then you're ready for the
Turbulence Training for Abs DVDs.
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