There is a popular saying that states that “when you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” This saying is practically true, not just about academics and career, but in every aspect of human life.

Whenever you set a specific goal in the area of personal health, for example, you would need to come up with at least a simple basic plan to achieve it. One common health goal is in the area of losing weight to achieve a better overall health condition.

If your goal is to lose a specific amount of weight (e.g. ten pounds) in a given period of time (e.g. ten weeks), then you’d better come up with a workable diet and exercise plan. Setting a numerical goal of losing ten pounds in ten weeks is specific enough to keep you going the right direction.

This objective, though, must be supplemented by specific steps to achieve your goal in your prescribed time.
In terms of planning a healthy weight losing diet, there is no need for you to go to the extent of meticulously counting your calorie intake. Such obsessive compulsive manner of dieting would be quite difficult to sustain and you may just end up miserably failing when you feel guilty about occasionally taking in more calories than what you’ve unnecessarily set for yourself.

What is important is that you observe the principle that the calories you burn must exceed the calories you take in. This means you do not need to excessively restrict yourself in your food consumption as long as you have a specific plan on burning those calories through the corresponding exercises.

For people who are not too busy with their career lives, losing one pound a week may be quite easily attainable. But to others who may find it hard to schedule time for regular exercises, it may be extremely difficult. Your goal setting on how much weight to lose in your set time period would ultimately be determined by your overall lifestyle.

With your goal on losing ten pounds in ten weeks, you could very well measure your weight loss on a week to week basis. If you find that you are motivated enough in diligently following your plan so that you are actually overshooting your target by losing more than one pound each week, then you could moderately readjust your goal, not to double it right away, but probably increasing to losing fifteen pounds in ten weeks.

You must remember than in making your diet and exercise plan, you would only succeed when you make your goal setting and planning realistically attainable yet challenging enough to stretch you and make you feel good about yourself when you achieve your goal in the end.

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The army’s battle cry is “no retreat, no surrender.” The marines yell out, “no guts, no glory”. The navy screams, ”no pain, no gain.” Amidst all these assertive declaration, the security guard simply flashes the gate sign, “NO ID, NO ENTRY!”

You may be smiling, if not giggling, at these various declarations. But these so-called battle cries are also true to some extent in the field of losing weight and attaining your dream figure.

Without the pain of weight loss exercises, there will be no gain in achieving a well-fit beautiful body. Without the guts of determination in continuing with highly strenuous fat burning and muscle building workouts, there will be no glory basking in the firmly sculpted six packs abs.

To achieve your desired hot and sexy body figure, you cannot retreat nor surrender no matter how hard the battle maybe against fatigue and discouragement. And like it or not, if you cannot wear the “S.S.S.” ID badge (Successfully Slim and Sexy) imbedded in your body figure projection, no entry will be granted for you in the “C.A.B.” society – Counted As Beautiful.

The holistic benefits of weight loss exercises for your health, fitness and total well-being makes it already worth pursuing beyond the aesthetic and social gain of being considered beautiful when you are slim and sexy.

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They call it the “beer belly”. The disgusting part of it is that even if you’re not a beer drinker you would still be prone to attract those fats in your lower stomach area because that’s how the human body is programmed.

But there is good news for you! You could do away with that stubborn “beer belly” by going through a series of high calorie burning workouts that increases your body’s metabolism. When the unsightly stomach fat has been removed through the fat burning exercises, only then can you properly build and sculpt your abdominal muscles to expose your otherwise sexy well-toned mid-section

To clarify at the onset, stubborn belly fats are not removed by target abs muscle exercises like sit-ups and crunches. The body is designed to burn its fat contents in all its parts simultaneously which happens when the whole body is fully active.

This means it is more the perspiring cardiovascular and aerobics exercises that would effectively burn body fats including those stacked in your lower belly. These cardio-aerobics include heart pumping and sweat emitting activities like jogging, cycling, swimming and martial arts exercises as well as competitive sports like basketball, soccer and tennis.

The more you exert physical effort and intensify your cardio exercises, the more you increase your metabolism that burns your excessive body fats. Doing the aerobics exercises with increasing frequency and length of duration would also mean speeding up your fat loss that paves the way for the consequent abdominal muscle development.

As you grow in physical resistance and strength through the cardio and aerobics exercises, you could further intensify your fat burning workouts by doing full body exercises. This include high force exercises such as pull-ups, squat jumps, push-ups, jumping jacks and others listed in the “army dozen” exercises.

These high intensity full body workouts would further stretch your body’s fat burning capacity as your metabolism is accelerated. As you grow more in physical vigor, you may even combine various full body exercises like doing squats with dumbbell swings and push-ups with high jumps.

At this point you may very well say that this is an extremely strenuous way of getting rid of abdominal fats. You need to remember that the effort you put in would be proportionate to the amount of fats you want to lose from your body and your belly in particular. The level of frequency and degree of your exercise intensification would also determine how fast or slow you would lose those unwanted stomach fats.

When you have energetically and successfully shed off that unwanted flab in your lower stomach, you are now ready to work on developing and sculpting your abdominal muscles toward achieving you desired six packs.

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Stomach exercises are well known to be a major factor in reducing belly fat and achieving a flat stomach. This is because stomach exercises have been proven to be effective calorie burners as well as excellent abdominal muscle toners.

Regular stomach exercises done at least three times weekly will definitely firm up your abdominal area and tone your mid-section muscles. You may occasionally add crunches to your stomach exercises routine to better strengthen your abs. This will hasten you attaining a flat stomach with well-toned abs muscles.

Belly fat reduction that leads to a well-shaped waistline could not be achieved by stomach exercises alone. If you are to succeed in your journey to a slimmed down, firmed up abdominal section, you need to combine your stomach exercises with a healthy balanced diet.

Even if you faithfully and enthusiastically do your fitness exercises routine but take in large amounts of calories daily, you will not be able to burn all these by mere stomach exercises. Remember, if you want to lose stomach fat you need to burn more calories with stomach exercises than what you put into your body in your usual diet.

Go more for food intake that is low in carbs, salt and saturated fats. This means avoiding at all cost junk foods which abounds with these fattening contents. Also, the toxins brought into your system by the chemicals in these junk food facilitate greater fat storage that even rigid stomach exercises could not burn.

If you want a fat-reduced, well-toned and sexily shaped waistline, you must aim for the healthy balance of a balanced low calorie diet and regular stomach exercises.

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A lot of people nowadays, persistently aspiring to acquire the “Mr. & Ms. Body Beautiful” title, focus on abs workouts to achieve their dream mid-section figure. Without them knowing, they put tremendous effort on the kind of abs workout that does not actually work in attaining their goal.

Consider the following common mistaken beliefs about abs workouts:

Misconception No.1 – Sit-ups and crunches results in your dream fatless six pack abs.
While this is the common belief and practice of many who do abs workouts to achieve their desired six pack, the opposite is actually true. Qualified professionals gave an official report that reveals that the abdominal muscles hardly gets stimulated in sit-up exercises. On the contrary, it is more of the hip muscles that are exercise when we do sit-ups and crunches.

Furthermore, this type of abs workouts gives your spinal column undue stress that could very well result in bad posture conditions and ultimate spinal cord damage. In the end, over focus on abs workouts through sit ups would then be counter-productive to your effort in achieving your dream figure.

Misconception No. 2 – Electronic muscle stimulation (EMS) makes you lose quickly lose belly fat.
The electronic gadget you wear in employing this electrical weight reducing devices supposedly provides microelectronic stimulation to your muscles through conductors attached to your skin. While this technology has been proven to work in rehabilitating frozen muscles of post-stroke patients it has never shown efficacy in toning the muscles or burning body fats.

In fact some years ago, the American Council For Exercise did an experiment that involved close to twenty people who submitted to electronic muscle stimulation (EMS) for no less than two months. They were quoted afterwards in declaring their conclusion that the “subjects experienced no significant changes in weight, body-fat percentage, strength or overall appearance”.

Misconception No. 3 –  Abs workouts enables you to shed off unwanted fats in your stomach.
What actually reduces the fat buildup in your belly is not the energy you put in sweat excreting abs workouts but the whole body activity and exercises you perform on a regular basis. Your overall lifestyle of engaging in activities that burn the very calories you take in daily is the key to losing those obnoxious fats in your stomach and in your body as a whole.

The concept of “spot reduction”, which mistakenly focuses on particular parts of the body you want the extra fats lost, has been proven to fail by the experience of many in trimming down the waistline. Abs workouts by itself could not achieve your desired well-shaped mid-section figure. You need to supplement it with cardiovascular exercises like jogging or brisk walking on a regular basis. This calorie-burning exercise, supplemented by healthy low calorie diet, would better bring about belly fat loss than just plain abs workouts

When you have undone these mistaken beliefs about abs workouts and so adjusted properly your exercise routines then you would be well on your way to the fatless, well-toned, sexy mid-section figure of your dreams.

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The great thing about abdominal exercises is that you can perform the activity without even using any sort of gym equipment. This means that you can do the exercise anywhere you are. You may be at home, at vacation, or at work, but you can still perform crunches.

There is no excuse for you to miss the activity because all you need is your body. You use your body to work your body.

One of the most common exercise is the basic crunch. You just have to lie down with your knees bent and lift your torso up slightly. The crunch is much safer because it does not put so much strain on the back and on the neck unlike the traditional sit-ups.

Remember not to perform abdominal exercises every single day because your muscles need time for rest. It has to heal the muscles in order for it to grow. Do not commit the mistake of overtraining the muscle. Just do a couple of reps and sets every couple of days and you’re all good.

Do realize that if you really want your abs to show, you’ve got to step it up when it comes to doing cardio. Eat right and exercise regularly. In due time, your abs will pop out and come out of hiding.

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