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 will not achieve a ripped body in a day or two. 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. Don’t cut down on your calorie intake too severely as this can lead to muscle loss and also negatively affect your metabolism.

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

Refined sugars and starches are some of the most important foods to avoid in your diet. 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. For example, doing an 80m sprint uphill, then walking back down as an interval 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.

Quite simply, you burn more calories during short, high intensity exercises than with long, slow cardio exercises. Interval training is fantastic for your fitness and a great way to get ripped quick.

Take care not to overdo it. You’ll only prevent your body from recovering properly, which will do more harm than good. 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. You only need to exercise about 3 - 4 times per week.

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. What I’m talking about is exercises like mountain climbers, static jumps, pullups, pushups, lunges, squats. These are specifically exercises that don’t even require any ab exercise equipment, gym equipment or weights.

To get ripped quick you need to engage your entire body. Be sure to include some exercises that specifically target and isolate the abs in your routine, like jack knives, suspended leg lifts and reverse crunches, but don’t do ONLY those. Get your whole body working and you’ll burn fat much more effectively.

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