Get Ripped Quick - Great Abdominal Exercise Tips

Ok, here’s a short guide on how to get ripped quick. With or without ab exercise equipment. Maybe summer is coming and you want to look really good in those swimming trunks or bikini.

Bad news…you’re not going to get ripped overnight. Good news…it can be done in a realistic time frame, which will of course depend on your current condition.

Get Ripped Quick - Super Tip 1: Sorting out your diet

First of all you need to sort out your diet. While cutting down your calorie intake is important, you don’t want to overdo it as this could lead to muscle loss and slow down your metabolism.

Ideally you want to strike a good balance between your intake of fat, carbohydrates and also protein.

Definitely remove starches and refined sugars from your diet as far as possible. On the flip side you’d want to make sure you take in plenty of whole, natural, unprocessed foods like vegetables, organic meat, nuts, fruit and eggs.

Super Tip 2: What are the best type of cardio exercises to do?

Forget about doing endless long cardio in your ab exercise routine. It is recommended to engage in workouts that take less time while being more intense. Not only are they more effective at speeding up your metabolism, but they’re also more fun, easier to fit into your busy schedule and easier to stick to. Examples include:

Rope Jumping
Short Sprints
Uphill sprints
Stair Climbing
Interval Training
Waist High Roundhouse Kicks on a Punch Bag

If you don’t know, interval training is quite simply where periods of intense exercise are mixed with periods of less intense exercise, or recovery. A simple example would be doing a 70m hill sprint, then walking back down before doing another.

One of the benefits of interval training is that is strengthens the cardiovascular system while reducing the risk of repetitive strain injuries so common in slow cardio exercises.

In short, exercises done at high intensity burn more calories in less time than time-consuming slow cardio routines. If you want to get ripped quick, interval training is the way to go.

Don’t over train, however. You will inhibit your body’s recovery and get exactly the opposite results of what you want. An injury caused by over training can also put you out of action for a long time, and there’s no need for me to explain what that means. Exercise about 3, maximum 4 times a week, and listen to your body.

Super Tip 3: What are the best abdominal exercises to do?

Instead of just focusing on exercises that isolate the abs, you’ll want to put a priority on full body exercises. Make sure you allow plenty of time for these in your exercise schedule. I’m talking about pushups, pullups, squats, lunges, mountain climbers, static jumps. What makes these exercises even better is that you do not need a gym, weights or any fancy ab exercise equipment to do them.

To get ripped quick you need to engage your entire body. You definitely should make ab targeting exercises part of your routine, but they shouldn’t make up your entire routine. Make your whole body work - that way you’ll melt the fat off much faster.

Next, I share more of the best abdominal exercises, full ab exercise routines and a ton of useful information at http://www.bestabdominalexercises.com

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