Friday, January 30, 2009

Flat Stomach Exercises Are High Intensity Exercises

By Dan Solaris

Flat stomach exercises can be defined as anaerobic high intensity exercises. Spot reducing does not work when it comes to getting a flat stomach. Anaerobic training is the fastest way to achieving ripped abs. Increasing your metabolism by incorporating interval sets into our exercise program and training with greater frequency will give you a flat stomach.

Exercises that train just the abs will not give you a flat stomach. Spot reduction does not work. Training our abs directly will give you strength in the abs but will not give you a flat stomach. We must burn our overall fat to make the underlying abdominal muscles visible.

High intensity training causes a lowered oxygen situation in the muscles, which results in increased accumulation of carbon dioxide and lactic acid. Resulting in lowered muscle function.

When the body is resting, the body is quickly trying to get oxygen into the muscles to nourish, repair and clear the waste products in the muscles. As a result, the muscle metabolic activity is increased and needs to expend more energy to function.

Exercises that involve intervals are effective in creating an oxygen debt in the muscles. The dynamic nature of interval training and how the muscles react to the demands of that training, really increase the metabolism of the muscles.

The muscles utilize the calories from the food we eat and when that is fully consumed, it turns to the fat stores on our body to provide the necessary energy. This fat burning process increases the body's capacity to burn fat and keeps actively replenishing and repairing the muscles well after the exercise session has ended.

Regular exercise is a good way to be consistent and allow the body to become more efficient at burning body fat. Having a regular schedule of exercises promotes increased metabolic activity regularly, which has a residual effect of fat burning even after the exercises session.

Flat stomach exercises are basically anaerobic exercises. To get the fastest results, we must train with anaerobic exercises by increasing our metabolism through interval training and regular exercise. - 16650

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