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How To Get A Six Pack In Half The Time!

Topic: Body BuildingPublished August 13, 2009

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Most fitness experts agree that your abdominals help to support and protect your spine, and thus, they must never be fatigued before doing any non ab exercises such as, chins, rows, deadlifts and squatting movements. These "experts" state that when your abs are fatigued, you are at a greater risk of acquiring a back injury. Based on this, the entire fitness industry insists that you must only do your ab training at the very end of your workout. I see their point to a degree but their philosophy is in stark contrast with "The Priority Principle. The Priority Principle simply says that what gets trained first (while in the freshest state) will get the best training effect. The fitness experts agree that this is a powerful principle with every single muscle group...except the abs. Why would this principle be true for every other muscle group in the human body except the abs? What if your abs are your weakest body part? What if carving out a set of six pack abs happens to be your number one priority? In these cases, they should be trained at the beginning of your workout when you are in your freshest state. So here is my suggestion: if you want to prioritize your abs, train them at the very beginning of your workout! This slight alteration will make a big difference in your training results. You will have better focus while working them, and you'll be able to put forth greater effort into each ab exercise. If you are used to just cranking out a few sets of crunches at the end of your workouts, you will literally double your rate of progress towards carving out ripped abs by using this technique. Additionally, prioritized ab training will also provide a great warm up for the workout to follow. I do have one exception to this rule however. If you are training with maximal weights, I would opt to train the abs at the end of the workout. Performing any activity that could leave you with residual fatigue prior to a maximal weights workout would be undesirable. Try this exercise sequencing technique and get great ab development in half the time! As Stephen Covey says, "Put First Things First".

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