3 Ways to Burn More Calories and Achieve Perfect Abs
Based on a 2013 report from The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, ‘Multi-joint body-weight workouts’ such as squats and deadlifts train the abs quite more effectively.
Do you want to remove that belly fat and sculpt your abs even when at home and without your workout equipment? The fitness experts' advice is that you should stop cranking out those never-ending crunches.
Such a practice, they say, is not effective when you are training your core. It won't even land you any closer to your "six-pack abs" or your weight-loss goals.
However, with the right tactic, you can enhance your core exercises and set the phase to achieve such amazing abs right inside your spacious room, or your living room.
When exercising your way to your perfect abs, as earlier mentioned, you don't need too much workout equipment or a huge room as the size of a gym. All you need is to follow these 3 easy ways, and you are guaranteed to burn more calories while you are doing your "at-home workouts."
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3 Simple Ways to Your Perfect Abs
With an at-home workout, you won't find any reason not to exercise. Whether it's a sunny or rainy day, doing some strength training at home will ensure your safety from either the hot or wet season.
So, stop making excuses and start doing these 3 easy ways to achieve the perfect abs you've always wanted:
1. Integrate Complex Workout Movements
Skip the lighter isolation movements like sit-ups and crunches as these light exercises, experts say, do not burn as many calories as complex movements do.
Based on a 2013 report from The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, "Multi-joint body-weight workouts" such as squats and deadlifts train the abs quite more effectively.
That's simply due to the complex movements that require you to employ various muscle groups, including our core, simultaneously.
In most circumstances, when you integrate more movements and muscles, you increase your heart rate to a 50-to-90-percent working level of your exercise capacity.
Furthermore, the higher you push that particular level, the more energy is required to work. Meaning, the more energy exerted, the more calories are burned.
For example, instead of doing an isometric plank hold for 30 seconds, try a more challenging compound exercise like a plank with an alternating shoulder tap.
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2. Decrease Your 'Rest Time'
If you're engaged in a high-intensity or hardcore workout, you need to have several intervals of rests so you can properly recover. Rest intervals are also needed when the series of moves you're doing is targeting a similar muscle group.
Nonetheless, unless you lift close to maximal weights, you can reduce your "rest time" to achieve the benefits of calorie-burning.
The reduction of breaks in-between movements and workout sets will enable you to achieve more in no time. It will also keep your heart rate up to enhance your energy requirements and torch more calories.
3. Have a Combination of Workouts
Another tactic is to boost calorie burn while you're on your ab training is to combine your core work into your other strength-training days.
Attempt to do a few movements concentrated in abs at the start, in the middle of your lower- and upper-body routines.
Furthermore, varying the sequence to retain the guessing of your body. More so, a mix of core and a few intervals with cardio goes a long way, as well since you already have an increased heart rate. This technique will also break the monotony up of running exercises.
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Aug 19, 2020 07:40 AM EDT
