Now you will remember I addressed the biggest myth in the Fitness Industry, more or less a fat little secret, pun intended that most ab exercises do nothing to decrease the girth of the waistline.

Alas this is true and interestingly enough I usually keep this information to myself. You ask why don’t I shout it out, expose the AB roller, Ab doer, Crunches, Sit Ups and the like? Well, the fact is people don’t want to hear the truth. That’s right, just like the movie “A Few Good Men”, with Jack Nicholson in the climatic scene being cross examined by Tom Cruise’s character, and he finally breaks and yells “You can’t handle the truth.” This is very much the way I have learned I can share this “truth” with only select people.

When I inform people and suggest a couple of alternatives of abdominal exercises that target the muscles that will flatten the stomach the people I advise don’t perform those exercises they just go back to performing the Ab exercises they have been doing for 2, 5, 7, pick a number of years. So after seeing this phenomenon several times I stopped telling people the “truth” because it seems they can’t handle the truth, except for my clients and people who take my bootcamp class, they have no choice but to follow what I instruct them to do for their abs.

Now the other side of the “truth” is simply genetics. Depending on your individual genetic make up you may or may not be disposed to have a flatter mid section versus others in society. Age plays a factor; this is why most of the Ab bearing Men and Women are young.

Regardless of whether you do Ad exercises the way you have been taught or the way that is optimal for decreasing the waistline, the biggest single factor as far as being able to see the definition in your abs is your diet. You can perform 1,000 ab crunches, or sit ups a day but if you are eating pizza, pasta and drinking a six pack every day to go along with it you may drink the six pack but you will never see a six pack.

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