Doing 1,000 crunches won't result in washboard abs.
What I think is a better quote is that "Great abs are made in the gym, but revealed in the kitchen."
What does this mean, exactly?
One big myth you'll hear a lot of overweight wannabe exercisers state is that they want to target X body part, or lose weight there. Back at the beginning of the year, I watched two ladies with very large backsides and thighs do the same thing for the two weeks they were there. Walk on the treadmill, then get on the thigh machines.
Day after day.
It was clear that they wanted to lose weight in their thighs.
Thing is, exercise doesn't work like that. Oh, you can tone your arms, or crunch your way to washboard abs... but you're not going to lose weight by doing planks.
You have to eat right! My trainer at the gym tells us often: You can't out-exercise a bad diet.
See, I'm one of those lucky people who carries most of her weight in her abdominal area. Heck, look at the title of my blog!
What the "great abs are made in the kitchen" means is that you have to eat right, because when you gain weight, you'll gain it wherever you're genetically predisposed to do. Right now, when I tighten my abs, I can FEEL the strength. I've been working on them hard, for five months. I HAVE washboard abs.
They're just hidden under 30 lbs of eeew.
So what I have to do is lose weight... I can't lose weight in targeted areas, I have to lose weight ALL OVER. By eating less than I burn, regularly exercising, I can lose that weight, and eventually, my gut will go. I'll show off the washboard abs I can FEEL under all that fat. My genetics tell me that my stress and my overeating puts weight there.
My habits in the kitchen will defeat it. I can do more crunches than anyone I know... but I won't be able to see them until my eating habits are caught up.
So let's spread the word:
Great abs are made in the gym, but REVEALED in the kitchen!
listen my love do u do push ups?? it makes u lose weight on teh abs. promise. i m too skinny but i do push ups to increase my body flatness n it show results in 2 days. i just do ordinary ladies' push-ups...
ReplyDeletei absoluutely love teh title of ur blog
u r suchh a strong girl to face ur weakness in such a manner. i wanna be wid u on ur weight-losing mission!!
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Oh yes. I do quite a few! HOW I do them depends on the day, and what the trainer tells me. :) Sometimes I do girl pushups, sometimes guy pushups, sometimes I do them out, in moving around, up on a platform... my trainer is very creative. Diamond pushups are the WORST.
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