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Do Not Buy Mike Geary’s The Truth About Six Pack Abs – 2 Major Flaws Found

I’ll cut to the chase regarding The Truth About Abs.

I’ve reviewed The Truth About Abs and truly believe that it is THE best ab workout program available.

But I found 2 serious flaws with The Truth About Abs program that I wanted to share with everyone before they invested their money in this program. These were 2 flaws that I had to personally find solutions to fill-in-the-gaps. Simply put, you’ll be wasting your money if buy The Truth About Abs the way it is. Continue reading to find out what I found and how I fixed them…

In the Truth About Abs, Mike Geary pulls no punches and gives you the truth on what it takes to get 6 pack abs. In fact, he overdelivers with his product, which can overwhelm not only the rookie, but the advanced gym-goer as well.

The Truth About Abs covers a TON of topics that include:

* The exact science behind getting defined abs – Why multi-joint exercises will always outperform single-joint exercises (after reading this, I realized that my current workout program was ENTIRELY WRONG!)

* The myth that cardio is the “answer” – Why doing too much cardio and crunches might actually stop you from getting a 6 pack (this totally goes against conventional wisdom, but the evidence is there to back every single word written in The Truth About Abs)

* Proper Diet & Nutrition – The two hidden monsters in our diet that are preventing us from burning fat, no matter how much we exercise (I was guilty of this one!)

* Advanced secret weapon exercises that aren’t focused on your abs, but work your abs better than any crunch could (this blew my mind!)

* Over 50 exercises that will help you get a 6 pack…exercises you probably have not ever seen before!

So, you can see how I could have been overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information in The Truth About Abs. In fact, it took me 3 whole days of doing nothing but reading The Truth About Abs to get my hands around the exercises and diet habits enlisted by Mike Geary.

I have to tell you, Mike Geary knows his stuff and presents it in a way that is easy to understand. He is truly a guru, and The Truth About Abs is the real deal. But, even with this wealth of information, there are 2 obvious things missing from The Truth About Abs.

Honestly, I couldn’t believe that Mike Geary didn’t have this as part of his Truth About Abs program. So what was I to do? Like they say, necessity is the mother of all invention, so I had to create these two items myself.

And like I said previously, The Truth About Abs covers all the material in very good detail. But when I started to implement the program, I was running into stumbling blocks that were stopping me from getting the results that I wanted. So I created 2 tools to help increase the effectiveness of my workouts.

I’d like to share the 2 tools I created, so that you are aware of what can be done to help your workouts.

What was the first solution?

Like I said before, there is a TON of information in The Truth About Abs, and so much to absorb. There was no possible way that I could memorize the workout routines that Mike Geary put out in full detail. There were so many different exercises that I have never heard of, and didn’t know how to perform correctly.

So I had to bring The Truth About Abs to the gym. Do you know how inconvenient that was? I had to flip through pages & pages trying to find the right exercise and how to do it. It was both embarrassing and inefficient.

To solve this, I personally recorded the workout routines on MP3 files, detailing each exercise in the same order as in The Truth About Abs. I walk through each exercise, and give you step-by-step instructions on how to properly perform each exercise.

To help myself out when I was at the gym, I recorded:

1. How to correctly hold the weight & proper body positioning – This way, I didn’t have to think about it anymore…I just followed my instructions and to do the exercises correctly.

2. What muscle I should feel “working” – I know exactly where I should feel my muscles ‘squeeze’ and ‘flex’ to get maximum results.

Then I downloaded these files to my iPod (or any other MP3 player) which I followed along at the gym. No lugging around any books, flipping pages trying to find out how to do each exercise while somebody is waiting for my bench.

It’s like having a trainer with me every step of the way!

What was the second solution?

In The Truth About Abs, Mike Geary lays out workout routines in great detail. His workouts are very creative, and truly involve your entire body to get you strong, toned abs.

But he doesn’t provide a way to track your workouts!

If there was one tip that I could give to anyone who wants true results from their workout program, it would be this…TRACK YOUR RESULTS! Like the saying goes, “What gets tracked, gets results.” That holds very true in this case.

I painstakingly created workout tracking sheets that I could just print them out, put them into a binder, and bring with me to the gym to track my results. Each sheet represents one workout. I took the exact workout routine from The Truth About Abs and put it into a format where I could track my performance for each workout.

Each exercise is already filled in, so I didn’t have to remember which exercise to do. And the Truth About Abs workout tracking sheets are synchronized with the Truth About Abs MP3 files above to keep my workout fluid and efficient. All I have to do is fill in your results.

The funny thing is, I didn’t even believe it myself, but I got stronger each workout when I started tracking my results. I lifted more weight and performed more reps simply because I knew what I did the last workout, and wanted to outdo it. Coincidence? I think not.

So, as you can see, The Truth About Abs provides a wealth of information to you. The core knowledge provides all the information you need to get six pack abs. But it is lacking in 2 areas: having an audio workout that you can follow along in the gym AND a way to track your workout performance.

But now you have the solutions for those 2 missing elements in Truth About Abs, which should jumpstart you on your journey for six pack abs. Use them in combination with The Truth About Abs and your goal of ripped, defined abs will follow.

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Training for six pack abs – FAQ

Getting visible abdominal muscles or “abs” depends on reducing the amount of fat covering the abs, see Question 3. Getting hard, lumpy abs depends on developing the underlying muscles, for details, read on…

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No. Exercising the area from which you want to lose fat is called “spot reduction”. Spot reduction is now believed to be a myth. Research shows that fat is lost all over your body, not just in the area that you work. Situps are also bad for your lower back (see Question 5).

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The answer comes in two parts: diet and aerobic exercise.

Two principles loom large when trying to “sculpt” one’s body:

* Calorie accounting: To lose fat, one must reduce calorie intake and/or increase energy expenditure so that stored fat is utilized as fuel for the body.

* Biology is destiny: fat cells, whether increased in size, number or both, cannot turn into muscle cells.

Reducing the fat accumulation in one area of the body is not easy. The usual measures to lose weight (including reducing calorie intake, increasing exercise or both) may lead to weight loss but not necessarily in a single area. In fact, short of having cosmetic surgery (such as liposuction), you cannot easily choose the area from which the fat will be lost. This is the reason that some women notice that their breasts (which are largely composed of fat) get smaller when they diet.

And weight loss is more than just reducing “calories in” compared with “calories out.” The difficulty many people have in losing weight probably relates to a well-established phenomenon that seems terribly unfair: As you take in fewer calories, the body’s metabolism changes, so that fewer calories are burned with normal body function. In studies of persons losing 10 percent to 20 percent of their body weight, “calories out” diminished, despite similar activity levels, which slowed further loss of weight.

Given this grim reality, . You’ll lose the fat by diet and/or exercise, and you’ll increase muscle mass by exercising those muscles. Of course, there may be other reasons to do sit-ups — for example, strong abdominal muscles reduce the chances of back problems; but shrinking your abdomen is not one of them.

This is controversial, but most people agree that eating very little fat and lots of complex carbs (like rice, pasta and potatoes) helps ensure that you don’t add additional fat. Then you have to work at using the fat you already have stored which involves…

Again a bit controversial, but it’s widely agreed that regular, moderate, aerobic exercise 3-4 times per week works best to burn fat that’s already stored.

“Moderate” because intense exercise burns glycogen not fat, so keep the intensity at about the level where you are beginning to puff a little.

“Aerobic” means (very vaguely) the kind of exercise that requires you to inhale more. Some suggest that building more muscle through weight training helps as well, since muscle burns fat just by being there and moving your body about; so some weight training couldn’t hurt and will probably help.

Many misc.fitness people agree that exercise periods of more than 20 minutes work best. But note that the longer you exercise, the more prone you are to injury since your muscles also begin to weaken. Two things which help prevent injury are:

a good warmup
5-10 minutes of light exercise to warm your muscles, try to break a sweat
stretching
cautious 20-30 sec stretches for every muscle .

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The abs are designed to perform one main task, to shorten the distance between your sternum, or breastbone, and your pelvis. The only way to do this is to bend your spine in the lower back region.

In short, any exercise which makes you move your sternum toward your pelvis or your pelvis toward your sternum is good. To do this safely, the lower back should be slightly rounded, not arched.

In general when exercising the abs, try to maintain the natural arch of you lower back. The lower back will round slightly as you perform the exercises. Don’t fret about pressing your back into the ground.

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Traditional situps emphasize sitting up rather than merely pulling your sternum down to meet your pelvis. The action of the psoas muscles, which run from the lower back around to the front of the thighs, is to pull the thighs closer to the torso. This action is the major component in sitting up. Because of this, situps primarily engage the psoas making them inefficient at exercising your abs. More importantly, they also grind the vertebrae in your lower back.

They’re inefficient because the psoas work best when the legs are close to straight (as they are when doing situps), so for most of the situp the psoas are doing most of the work and the abs are just stabilising.

Putting the thighs at a right angle to the torso to begin with means that the psoas can’t pull it any further, so all of the stress is placed on the abs.

Situps also grind vertebrae in your lower back. This is because to work the abs effectively you are trying to make the lower back round, but tension in the psoas encourages the lower back move into an exaggerated arch. The result is the infamous “disc pepper grinder” effect that helps give you chronic lower back pain in later life.
We’ve divided the exercises into upper and lower ab exercises. Note that there aren’t two separate muscles that you can truly isolate, so all the exercises stress the whole abdominal wall. However there are “clusters” of muscle separated by connective tissue (these make up the “washboard” or the “six-pack”). You can focus on the upper clusters by moving just the torso and the lower clusters by moving the pelvis.

lying leg raises
reverse crunches
vertical lying leg thrusts
hanging knee raises
hanging leg raises

ab crunches
1/4 crunches
cross-knee crunches
pulldown crunches
Lower Ab Exercises

Lie on your back with your hands, palms down under your buttocks. Raise your legs about 30cm (12″) off the floor and hold them there. Now trying to use just your lower abs, raise your legs by another 15cm (6″). Do this by tilting the pelvis instead of lifting the legs with the psoas. Make sure your knees are slightly bent.

If you’re big or have long legs or both, you should probably avoid this exercise. For people with legs that are too heavy for their lower abs strength, this exercise pulls the lower back into an exaggerated arch which is bad (and painful). For reasons why it’s bad, see Question 5. If you have this problem you can either try bending your knees slightly and making sure you keep your lower back fairly flat, or just try another exercise.

This exercise can be done on the ground or on an incline situp board. All you need is something behind your head to hold. If you use the incline board, use it with your feet lower than your head.

Lying on your back, hold a weight or a chair leg (if lying on the floor) or the foot bar (if using the situp board). Keep the knees slightly bent.

Pull your pelvis and legs up so that your knees are above your chest and then return to beginning position.

This exercise is very similar to a hanging knee raise, but a little less intense.

Initial position:

Lie on your back.
Put your fists under your buttocks to form a cradle.
Raise your legs in the air 20-30cm (10-12″) off the ground, knees slightly bent.
If you feel any strain on your lower back, bend your knees a little more.
Raise your head and shoulders off the ground slightly if you can to help keep the abs stressed.
The exercise itself has four phases:

Raise your legs until your feet are above your pelvis; focus on contracting the abs.
Thrust your heels to the ceiling, breathe out, keep contracting the abs raising the pelvis out of the cradle of your fists.
Lower out of the thrust back to your fists, leaving your feet above your pelvis.
Lower your legs back to the initial position.
Legendary Abs II recommends these as safer than Lying Leg Raises.

You need a chin-up bar or something you can hang from for this. Grab the bar with both hands with a grip a bit wider than your shoulders, cross your ankles and bring your knees up to your chest (or as close as you can get). Your pelvis should rock slightly forward. Pause at the top of the movement for a second and then slowly lower your knees by relaxing your abs. Don’t lower your legs all the way. Repeat the movement using just your abs to raise your knees.

Make sure that you don’t start swinging. You want your abs to do the work, not momentum. It’s important that you don’t move your legs too far or your psoas muscle will be doing a lot of work and possibly causing back problems as in a situp.

Make sure your pelvis moves, your lower back stays neutral or slightly rounded, not arched, and that your abs are doing the work, not your hips.

Just like knee raises except you keep your legs straight. This requires good hamstring and lower back flexibility.

Although Legendary Abs recommends these, The American Council on Exercise’s Aerobics Instructor book warns that they have the same back problems as conventional situps. This makes sense since, like situps, the legs are kept straight and the hips move. The Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA) also regards hanging leg raises as dangerous.

For safety you should probably stick to leg thrusts and knee raises.

If you do do hanging leg raises, make sure your lower back stays neutral or rounded.

There is an isometric variant done by gymnasts called the “L-Support”, which basically consists of taking the leg raise position with the legs held straight at a level just above the hips. The position is held for 10 seconds. When you can complete this easily, try a higher position. The same cautions about back position still hold.

Lying on your back, put your knees up in the air so that your thighs are at a right angle to your torso, with your knees bent. If you like you can rest your feet on something, like a chair. Put your hands either behind your head or gently touching the sides of your head.

Now, slowly raise your shoulders off the ground and try to touch your breastbone to your pelvis, breathing out as you go. If you succeed in touching your breastbone to your pelvis, see a doctor immediately.

Although the actual movement will be very small (your upper torso should move through less than 30 degrees) you should try to go as high as possible. Only your spine should bend, your hips should not move. If the hips move, you are exercising the psoas.

Do these fairly slowly to avoid using momentum to help.

You can increase the difficulty of the exercise by extending your hands out behind your head instead of keeping them at the side. Make sure you don’t jerk your hands forward to help with the crunch, keep them still.

Same as an ab crunch except that you raise your shoulder up, instead of pulling them toward your pelvis. You can do these quickly, in fact it’s hard to do them any other way.

Like ab crunches, take the lying, bent-knee position, but this time crunch diagonally so that you try to touch each shoulder to the opposite hip alternately. At the top position, one shoulder and one hip should be off the ground.

Drape a towel or rope around the bar of a pulldown machine so that you pull the weight using it instead of the bar. Kneel facing the machine and grab hold of the towel and put your hands against your forehead. Kneel far enough away from the machine so that the cable comes down at a slight angle.

The exercise is the same movement as an ab crunch, but using the weight instead of gravity. The emphasis is still on crunching the abs, pulling the sternum (breastbone) towards the pelvis and making sure you exhale all your air at each contraction.

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According to Legendary Abs, you should exercise the lower abs before the upper abs and do any twisting upper ab movements before straight upper ab ones. Twisting exercises work the obliques as well as the upper abs.

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According to the guidelines in Legendary Abs:

Try to do sets in the 15-30 rep range.
Follow the ordering rules in Question 7.
Pick easy exercises to start with and when you can happily do about 2 sets in a row of an exercise, try harder ones.
Only rest when you absolutely must, so take a short (10-15sec) rest between two sets of the same exercise, but none between lower and upper abs.
Try to take about 1 second for each rep, except for ab crunches which you do slower (2 secs/rep) for a better contraction and 1/4 crunches which you should do fast (2 reps/sec) because you’re hardly moving.

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Top Exercises For Flat Abs – What You Should Be Doing If You Want That Six Pack Fast

If you are trying to get six pack abs fast, you will want to know what the top exercises for flat abs are. Maybe beach season is coming up, or there’s a wedding in the very near future. If you have to achieve your goal in as little time as possible, there are some exercises and workouts that will help you get there much quicker.

The top exercises for flat abs are those that burn lots of fat and raise your metabolic rate. 3 great ones are:

Renegade Dumbbell Rows Front Squats with Barbell Mountain Climbers on Floor

If you do each of these exercises in sets of 3-4 of about 8 reps each, you will have a very good workout that will burn the fat, raise your metabolism and get you ripped abs in no time.

In addition to the above, other great exercises to get tight abs would be:

Captain’s Chair Leg Raises (very effective) Bicycle Exercise Staircase Workouts Kettlebell Workouts Squats Lunges Mountain Biking

There are so many great exercises for flat abs that I can’t even list them all here. You need to learn that in order to get six pack abs quickly you have to stop wasting time on exercises and workouts that don’t do much good.

Alot of the information that we find online tells you to do crunches and situps. These will only serve to strengthen your abs. What you really want to do is burn the fat that is in front of those abs. In order to do this in the fastest time possible is to make your workout count.

Doing the above workouts in sets of 3 or 4 only 3-4 days a week will produce really good results. Remember to change out your workout routine so that your body doesn’t reach a certain plateau.

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Six Pack Abs Workout Routine For Sexy Abs

If you need to acquire your own rocky and sexy six pack abs you must do ab efficient workouts. This doesn’t imply that just the ab workout will shed off your stomach fat to a wanted extent; rather you are required to do it in order to get a sexier flat belly. Nevertheless, there is a reason why ab workouts are essential in your six pack abs plan.

The truth is this, it is still possible for you to build up your own flat belly and six pack abs with no performance of any single abs exercise in any way. This fault shows up at the time you have finally lost your body fat to a considerable low level which is sufficient for your abs to be visible. Assuming you did build up the abdominal muscles or haven’t been working on your abs using a natural technique, you are likely to be dissatisfied with the way they will look after they have showed up from your skin.

Considering the fact that ab workouts are not able to shed stomach fat, then what should you do in order to get rid of them or add them to your ab workout routine?

As I stated initially, it is easy for you to set up your ab muscles in order to attain low levels of body fat. Obviously, it is not possible for you to relax and avoid your ab routine and wish your abs is going to appear good when you reach low levels of stomach fat.

As it regards to my own view, the coolest way to do this is to integrate ab workout into your routine. Let’s say 2-3 times weekly to make your ab muscles stimulated and enable them to be nice after you’ve attained low levels of body fat.

Below is one of my best ab exercises Renegade rows: it is a powerhouse workout.

How you can perform it Fall off to a push-up pose holding one dumbbell in one hand, another dumbbell in the other. Rather than performing a push up, do one arm row and change your arms for different reps.

Try to include this workout in your plan and couple it together with other exercises for a faster result. It is possible to perform it as a stand alone exercise. One you do it the right way, you are going to see that it’s efficient right away.

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Nutrition

To get those six pack abs you’ve always wanted, the very first step is definitely nutrition. It is very essential since often times some six pack abs seems to look strong but is only covered with fat, and so with proper nutrition comes along with the great sexy abs. And so the first plan is for you to decide 5-6 small meals in a day. With this kind of meal, your metabolism is being expedited. Now this article will be showing you a list of foods that would result in the prevention of having six pack abs. These are white bread, fructose corn syrup, sugars, hydrogenated oils, dessert, candy, soda and pasta. But the foods that will help you get six pack abs are green tea, protein, fish, chicken, natural peanut butter, eggs, nuts, vegetables, fruits, whole grain breads, oatmeal and water. And the most important thing to remember is to modify the eating routine considering the foods that were mentioned and the adaptation to a new style of diet.

Exercise

The next step is to include in your routine 3 types of exercises. These are classified into cardio, ab exercises and weight lifting. These exercises must be done at least 4 times a week. To do the cardio exercises, you may have to choose one from the following; walking, swimming, biking or even hiking. And once you have already selected, you have to remember to do it consistently and diligently. You can do walking for 60 seconds then follow it with sprinting for 15 seconds. Then repeat this 10 times. And also the advantage of weight lifting is that 3 pounds of muscle burns out calories equivalent to a 1 mile jog, which could take place even when you are stationary.

Ab Exercises

And lastly, ab exercises are also essential towards getting six pack abs. There are plenty types of these exercises that can be found widely over the internet. Make sure to select those that can be done in a relaxed manner with exultation since these are much more effective.

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