How NOT To Get Abs!
You may remember that a week or two back I introduced Lana and Larissa from Assassin PT. Today the girls are back to bust some serious myths on getting your abs ready for summer – and with a very VERY amazing freebie for you to kick off your beach-body plan this year …
Today’s post is all about what NOT to do if you want to finally get those abs on show – I know you’re going to want to read this 🙂
what you need to know if you want to get abs!
1. DON’T REFUEL ON CRAP
After a big workout session are you quenching your thirst and hunger with a sports drink and a protein bar or cookie?
These are packed full of artificial sweeteners, sugar and soy – the last thing you want for the six pack you just smashed yourself for! In fact soy can even promote fat stores in the belly!
Have a chunk of good quality MEAT or a good clean protein shake to get some protein into your system stat!
2. DON’T DO A ‘ROUTINE’
Running on the treadmill for way too long and getting stuck in a rut with the same routine will have benefit for only a short amount of time.
Turn up the intensity with some intervals and mix things up a bit! Changing rep range, weight and TIME YOUR REST. You will be surprised how quick 45 sec zooms past!. It will do wonders for your results. Remember to tense your abdominal muscles with each rep – you don’t always need to do specific ab exercise like crunches to train your abs! The human body is amazing at how fast it adapts to routine. Keep it guessing!
3. DON’T OVERTRAIN
Are you smashing your muscles with intense sessions 7 days a week and still no results?
Sounds like you need to help your body recover with supplementation and throw in a rest day or two.
If you want to lose weight, training 7 days a week will hinder the speed of your results – more is not better in this circumstance. Even if you’re not over-training, just by working hard you will deplete certain ‘flat abs nutrients’.
Refuel with good foods and supplements to help the recovery process and to finally lose weight around your belly. Our favourites are BCAA’s, Glutamine, good quality protein powder (grab it on sale till Oct 2!) and Fish Oils. Your body will love you for it.
4. DON’T FORGET FAT
Scared of fats? You don’t need to eliminate all fats to get the ABS you want, you just need to know the right types.
Fish, avocado, nuts (just not peanuts), eggs, coconut cream/milk, extra virgin olive oil and all good sources of fats that aid in fat loss.
We need fats for healthy cell formation, so eat it!
5. DON’T VALIDATE EATING CRAP
Kill yourself in the gym and that validates having a snickers as you wait for the tram home, right? Wrong. The reality is that even hours in the gym can’t counteract a days worth of the wrong food.
Try having some nuts on your way home and fuel up on a piece of fish with veggies. This will help recovery and get you a step closer to a toned body and a ripped mid-section.
Remember, you are trying to CHANGE THE BALANCE, not keep the balance between exercise to food!
free ‘get abs’ workouts for a month? what the?!
So. With all of that in mind let’s go smash an AWESOME intense and varied workout then back it up with the RIGHT food and supplements for fast results. After all, summer is almost here!
What’s your take on all if this? If you are one of the first 10 people to comment on this post we’ll do your workouts for you with a month FREE of unlimited access to our Bootcamp (valued at $205).
You get 7 sessions to choose from each week and you will also receive a welcome pack which includes:
- Assassin PT Log Book to record goals, food and successes
- Our Healthy Lifestyle Starter e-Guide
- Be part of our amazing Assassin Community!
Pretty good huh?
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Just having the accountability gets me motivated! 🙂
well lucky you were quick to reply! We’ll keep you accountable for sure. all you need to do is email us at [email protected] and your welcome godies will be underway.
In the meantime, why don’t you join us at the Tan tomorrow at 9.30am for our Satuday session to kick off a great weekend?
Let us know 😉
Thanks, I’ll email you. Everything I do has to be from afar, though, as I am uin the USA 🙂
No problem Heather, we can send you our info products, but since you won’t be able to make bootcamp jump on our site http://www.assassinpt.com.au and get our blog sent to you each week. We are going hardcore on interval training in every way we can over the next month, so make sure you check it out and keep us updated on how you go. Everything can be done indoors, outdoors, home or gym.
Cheers L & L
I regularly do weight training in the low- and high-rep ranges (2-5 & 20-40) and am gradually getting into sprint intervals.
sprint intervals are distgustingly good! Love them to bits!
Thanks for the reply Elena, come join us tomorrow at the Tan for some more energising intervals. 9.30 am.
Email us at [email protected] and let us know. Your training goodies will be on their way once you do!
This is good sound common sense advice. The hard part for me is I cant do anything regularly as I move around a lot. Am trying to get myself a good workout set that I can do with free weights ( dumbells) anywhere I am, that will give me maximum benifit. I am 51 so it is important to stay fit and healthy.
Thanks Angela! Don’t worry about being on the move all of the time as there are loads of things you can do with just your body weight! And sprinkle that with some of your dumbells and you have a wicked workout no matter where you are!
So come join us tomorrow at the Tan for some great workouts that you can do anywhere, 9.30 am.
Email us at [email protected] and let us know. Your training goodies will be on their way once you do!
Cheers L & L
yay, workouts for abs from the pros 😉 good insight into that sneaky ‘ive worked out so deserve a treat’ moment
That ‘sneaky treat’ is always so tempting but so not worth it!
Come and join us tomorrow (Saturday) at the Tan at 9.30 am.
Email us at [email protected] and let us know. Your training goodies will be on their way once you do!
That ‘sneaky treat’ is always so tempting but so NOT worth it!
Come and join us tomorrow (Saturday) at the Tan at 9.30 am for Bootcamp.
Email us at [email protected] and let us know if you’ll attend.
Your training goodies will be on their way once you do!
count me in!
THanks for the reply Renae! All you need to do is email us at [email protected] and your welcome godies will be underway.
In the meantime, why don’t you join us at the Tan tomorrow at 9.30am for our Satuday session to kick off a great weekend?
Let us know
Thanks for the reply Renae! All you need to do is email us at [email protected] and your welcome godies will be underway.
In the meantime, why don’t you join us at the Tan tomorrow at 9.30am for
our Satuday session to kick off a great weekend?
Let us know asap 😀
Hmm the sweets after training….. How did you new? 🙂
haha! Sounds like the temptation must get the better of you Christina!?
Come join us tomorrow at the Tan at 9.30am to work off those sweet treats…
Email us at [email protected] and let us know. Your training goodies will be on their way once you do!
haha! stay away from the temptation Christina!
Come join us tomorrow at the Tan at 9.30am to work off those sweet treats…
Email us at [email protected] and let us know if you will attend. Your training goodies will be on their way once you do!
I do as much incidental exercise as poss and prescibe to kats menu planner and supplements. More training needed!
Thanks for the reply Laura. More training you say? Well we’ve got just the thing for you!! Come and join us tomorrow at the Tan for some ‘more training’ at 9.30 am.
Email us at [email protected] and let us know. Your training goodies will be on their way once you do!
Thanks for the reply Laura. More training you say? Well we’ve got training for you!! Come and join us tomorrow at the Tan for some ‘more training’ at 9.30 am.
Email us at [email protected] and let us know if you’ll attend. Your training goodies will be on their way once you do!
Would love to try a session with Assasin PT. They will kill me! hahaha
We would LOVE to train you Felicia. Please join us tomorrow at the Tan at 9.30 am.
Email us at [email protected] and let us know. Your training goodies will be on their way once you do!
Great advise guys! The biggest challenge here is to do the right thing, we all like the bad goodies. I have been sitting and eating the wrong things for a long time, it’s Now or never!!
It sure is NOW!! Eating clean is the way forward, trust me, once you see how fabulous you’ll be feeling (and not to mention looking!) you won’t go back.
It would be great if you could come along tomorrow at the Tan at 9.30 am for our Boot Camp session.
Email us at [email protected] and let us know. Your training goodies will be on their way once you do!
i just got back to Gym – not realy sure what to do jumping around from one machine to another is just not right. no and again i join the zumba classes
Great job for getting back into the gym Marina. It sounds like you need some direction on what you should be doing and can give you just that!
Come join us tomorrow at the Tan at 9.30 am.
Email us at [email protected] and let us know. Your training goodies will be on their way once you do!
Great write up of practical real life tips.
The number of people I see at the gym that have been going for years and complaining about not getting slimmer is incredible. And all because they don’t bother what they do in the other 23 hours a day!
The only things I would add are – remember – drinks count as calories too and don’t forget to sleep!
Hey Adrian, great comment!
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L & L
Seems these days quite a lot of people are obsessed with getting six pack abs! What I have come to understand is that 6 pack abs are largely dependent on your food plan, everybody has six pack abs its the layer of body fat that prevents them from being revealed. I follow these simple guidelines for getting abs and they seem to work well. On exercise days I knock back a little glass of apple cider vinegar when i first wake up, then I proceed with my routine basically on an empty stomach, this forces the body to burn body fat. My workouts are short thirty minutes max, but within a few weeks you will start seeing genuine results in the mirror. Doing this really gives the metabolism a significant boost for the day and you will really burn a lot of fat particularly if you have frequent meals throughtout the day as well.