I want to provide you with 4 helpful tips that have helped me from personal experience. This isn’t anything you can research, but this is applicable stuff you can start using right now to start increasing your success.
There’s no science behind this stuff or proven facts, but this is just what I’ve noticed with myself that works really well, and I want to share it with you to help you achieve more success. Yes, losing fat and getting a toned stomach is mainly proper nutrition, but a lot of it has to do with personal experience and making small applicable changes that works wonders.
Don’t Skip Workout Days
This is pretty obvious, but you have no idea how many people really do this (including myself).
Yes, I’m even guilty of skipping workout days, and though it’s a terrible habit to develop, I want to show you that I’m nowhere near perfect and I struggle with the same kinds of things you do.
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A Few Reasons Why I Skip Workouts
- I’m lazy and get sucked into my t.v. or computer screen
- I don’t have the motivation to get off the couch even when I’m doing nothing
- I psyche myself out to get out of working out and say “It’s only one day”
- I go to sleep early and tell myself I’ll workout double harder the next day
- Other “fun” plans come up and I cancel my workout for that day
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Now these are all terrible reasons, but from studying myself I’ve learned that these really are the main reasons why I skip any workout. Though there are many reasons to skip workouts, you also have to remember that there are many other reasons to not skip workouts.
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Why Not to Skip Workouts
- It’s hard to get back into the rotation of working out and you lose incentive to do so
- Once you skip one day, it leads to many other days of losing results
- You lose all of the results you gained from your consistent workout days
- It’s harder to catch up on the results you lost and you start over from “Square One”
- It ruins your flow of working out and temptation to skip becomes much stronger
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My one tip to you is to not skip workout days no matter what your reason may be. Stay strong and committed to your workouts and I promise you will obtain much better results with six pack abs much faster. One thing to remember is that your stomach is the hardest thing to develop, but the easiest thing to lose results with. This is why commitment to your workouts is much more crucial to getting six pack abs.
Study Yourself And Learn What Works Best For You
If there’s one thing that many people forget to do, it’s to study themselves to see what works best for them. They follow all of these awesome fitness programs and they have all of the “head” knowledge, but no applicable knowledge. Scientific information and awesome workouts are worthless if you don’t know what works best for you. I know for me personally, my chest is the hardest muscle group to develop and get stronger so I have to double-up my chest workouts to balance it out with my other muscles.
Now my muscle group that’s easiest to tone out just happens to be my abdominals, but just because they’re easy to develop, doesn’t mean I don’t have to work super hard to keep the strength up. Strength and definition are two completely different things and I recently discovered that when I realized my “six pack abs” were no stronger than the average guy’s stomach muscles.
This is why it’s crucial to study yourself because you could be missing out on getting awesome results. When you study what works best for you, you may just find that you don’t have to workout a certain muscle group as long as you usually do, or you may realize that some workouts really don’t do much for you because you’re just too strong for those exercises. Whatever the case may be, it’s vital that you study yourself, learn what works best for you, and start getting the most out of your workouts.
I’m not saying diagram the exact motion that you perform every single exercise with and mark it down to the exact molecule at which your muscle grow. I’m just saying learn how to increase your workouts for your personal needs because everyone is different and will get different results from different workouts. No one knows YOU better than YOU so you can follow the best workout program in the world but if you haven’t the slightest clue as to how you can optimize that program for your personal needs, then you may as well not even waste your time with that program.
Be Passionate About Getting Success
Passion is what drives success. The main equation to success is Passion + Hard Work = Success and it always has been this way.
No one goes through life succeeding with what they love unless they have a true passion for it. This is how you ought to be if you want to get the best results out of your fitness program. Not only do you need the hard work, but you need to have the passion to succeed and obtain the results you want. I wish I could say that you don’t need to love what you do, but that’s not the case.
If you want to get toned six pack abs, then you have to truly love the thought of getting to that point one day. When I say “Love” I mean you will do anything and everything you can (at a safe amount) to get what it is you want and have fun on your journey towards that targeted goal.
Not only is passion key to that specific goal, but it plays a major role in your journey up to that specific goal. Think about it like this.
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If your goal was to climb Mt. Everest in a certain amount of time, you need two things:
- The passion for when you reach that goal so you sincerely love achieving that goal
- The passion for the journey up to that goal, meaning you love every minute you spend climbing towards that goal
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Now I’m not saying that you’ll love your workouts everyday, but I am saying that you have to love the fact that you’re actually working towards six pack abs, and then once you get to that goal, you have to have that passion to love achieving that goal. Having a passionate desire to achieve success and a true passion for what you do to achieve success is your ultimate tool to obtaining ultimate results.
Have Fun With Your Workouts
I don’t know anyone that starts off as a beginner to workout out that absolutely loves their workouts and has the best time doing it. It’s just that no one really does that when they first start out, or even a few months into it. Some people even despise working out after 5 years, but they do it in order to attain that perfect, strong body. Now there’s nothing wrong with these kinds of people, but if you really want to get awesome results in less amount of time, then you need to somehow speed up your workouts and enjoy them.
How can you do this? By having fun and making each exercise enjoyable. I don’t care how you do this, just enjoy your workouts and make them fun so you actually look forward to working out and working toward toned six pack abs. Yes, working out towards a specific goal can be hard, but no one said it doesn’t have to be fun and enjoyable.
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Make Your Workouts Fun
- Listen to music that booms through my garage so I can’t even think straight
- ALWAYS workout with my workout buddy to make it ten times more fun
- When we take turns finishing sets one of us flies around the garage “break dancing” more or less to try and make the other guy laugh
- I goof off during workouts but never to the point that it takes away from my results
- Turn workouts into dance-offs as we’re performing exercises
- We compete to see who is stronger or who can do more reps with each exercise
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These are just some examples of how I personally make my workouts fun, but there are a billion other different ways you can do this. This is just to give you an idea of how workouts don’t have to be boring and lame. They can actually be enjoyable and you can actually take pleasure in getting a stronger, more toned body. The reason we want to enjoy workouts is because when they’re boring and lame, you have less incentive to workout and you want to quit halfway.
Whereas when you have fun with your workouts, it’s the complete opposite and the moment you’re done working out..it’s a sad moment because you want to keep going. Make use of these 4 tips to increase your ability to obtain six pack abs and decrease the time it takes to really get them permanently.