You’re getting discouraged, and it’s hardly surprising, because you have exercised those six pack abdominals for ever, and they are still not showing. What more do I need to do besides crunches to get them developed enough to show as a perfect set of six pack abs?

Firstly, you are not the only one in this situation, there are a lot of people in this position, so don’t give up yet, and with a few adjustments, your abdominals and six pack will be showing very soon. Despite our best intentions, which can be seen by the number of crunches we perform every day, not every one can get their abdominals to show. You feel that your abs are much stronger, but they still don’t show, so what exactly is going on? Well, first of all you need to to make absolutely certain that it is your abdominal muscles that you are targeting in your exercises, an also make sure that you are not rushing them. For many exercisers, it is the number they can do in a fixed time that is what matters, but that lowers the level of the exercise. To be more beneficial, you need to hold each contraction of the abs for a few seconds, and if you are rushing to beat the latest record of number of the crunches in two minutes, then you are not able to do this, and the exercises will not be as beneficial for you. So slow down, and improve the quality of your crunches, and any other workouts you do that target the abdominal muscles.

The next thing you need to do is to find out what your body fat ratio is – you will be able to do this on the weighing machines at the gym if your bathroom scales don’t tell you. This number should be around 12, but if yours is a lot higher than this, then that explains why your six pack abs are not showing. The body fat ratio is an indicator to tell you how much body fat you have, and the higher the number, the more fat you have. The more fat you have, the more layers of fat are covering your abs muscles, so if you have been doing your exercises the right way, your abs will be well developed but just covered by too much fat.

Okay, if too much is the cause of your abs to not show as great 6 pack abdominals what are your options? You can see that you need to lose some of those fat from your body, and abdominal exercises alone will not do this for you. You must do some cardio workouts, to lose some fat. Now this doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to work even longer in the gym daily. You will probably reduce the time you spend on your abs exercises, and more time doing cardio. If you can eat a little less, you will be well on your way to losing some body fat. Make sure your diet is healthy for you, and not over doing the alcohol. The occasional drink is fine, but drinking alcohol on a regular basis is just giving your body with too many unneccessary calories.

So, to conclude, exercise appropriately, lower your body fat ratio and your 6 pack abs will be defined and showing like those on others you’ve been jealously watching.

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