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3 Things to Keep in Mind if You Want to Get Defined Abs

Chances are you want better abs. But are you aware of these 3 things that may be stopping you?

There is no question people ask me more than: “How do I get good looking abs and flat belly?”

If only the answer to these questions was as simple as: “Do some 100 crunches per day and you will get great abs!”. But things don’t usually work that way.

Abs, the visible ones you want are hard to get.

Hard, but not impossible of course.

We all have abs, our abdominal muscles, but mostly they can’t be seen because of the extra body fat.

What you basically need to do is shed the fat so you can finally reveal your abs.

It is also very important to know that there is no specific area of the body that you can work on to get results and shed fat only in that particular area. You need the whole body workouts to get results in your abs.

There are three main rules you need to follow in order to shed the extra fat and get those abs you always wanted.

Clean your diet

I know this is nothing you never heard of before. But getting a clean diet is the most important step in getting your desired abs.

Abs are made in the kitchen. This means that you’ll need to clean your diet, throw the junk food away and start eating unprocessed and whole foods.

Eating a balanced diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables, meat and fish and slowly processed carbohydrates like brown rice and oats will help you shed the fat much faster.

You also want to make sure to drink enough water. Try aiming to at least 8-ounce glasses (around 2 litres) per day. Hydration will help to get the less bloated belly that is a common problem these days for almost everyone I know.

Try to avoid the food you know will make you bloated and don’t substitute water with juices or sodas. Nothing can be a substitution to water.

Don’t skip your meals. Try to have 6 meals per day. Having more smaller sized meals per day is making your metabolism faster and is helping you shed that belly fat faster.

Make sure to include healthy fats in your diets like olive oil or coconut oil, avocado and nuts. You can use this as a snack or as sides to the main meal.

Enjoy your food, find the right balance between healthy food and junk food which can be an occasional treat. Don’t be afraid of food – rather enjoy in it.

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Shed the fat with HIIT training

There is nothing better for shedding fat than HIIT training.

High-intensity interval training or HIIT is a short burst of high-intensity workouts alternating with low-intensity workouts.

This kind of workouts is firing your metabolism and helping you shed fad even 24 hours after your, usually, short workout.

Even better, HIIT is more effective with low body fat so it is perfect when you want to lose just that little bit that is not letting your abs to

HIIT is not an easy workout so keep in mind that you will need at least some level of endurance. You can adjust workouts for beginners and also for advanced athletes.

Your results will depend on how much do you push yourself during the one minute that you do high-intensity interval so try your best to do a maximum of reps.

You can make HIIT even harder if you add weights.

This will make fat-torching even faster, and at the same time, you will be sculpting your muscles and gaining them.

You should do HIIT at least 3 times a week, and if you combine it with strength training you’ll have amazing results, no doubt in that.

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Abs isolated exercises

After you’ve cleaned your diet and shredded extra fat, abs exercises are just to sculpt your abs a little bit more.

You can be surprised that you can have abs showing even if you don’t do any kind of abs isolating exercises. This is because they will show as soon as the fat is shredded.

Your abs are already there, you just can’t see them yet.

Abs isolating exercises will help you sculpt them and make them more noticeable. These exercises alone will do nothing to help you get abs. They just don’t work the way most people would like them to.

Your abdominals are working with every movement you do, and especially hard during strength training and compound movements that are having an impact on your entire body. Your abs are working and you might be surprised that there is no need for extensive ab workouts.

You can do abs workouts as often as you wish, but once or twice a week is more than enough.

Remember, your diet and shedding fat is much more important than ab exercises.

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What’s not effective?

Doing a few hundred crunches every day is not effective and won’t give you abs. It will make your abs stronger, but if you have extra fat, you will not see them.

Eating junk food and not taking care of your diet is obviously bad and you’ll not have abs even if you do workouts regularly. You can’t expect to eat whatever you want and have a flat and toned belly.

Waist trimmers, abs promising belts, waist binders. These will not give you abs or a flat belly. They are not effective in giving you anything other than a sore belly and can actually be very dangerous if you wear them more than a few hours per day. They will also give you a flat wallet.

Fat loss pills, teas, smoothies or powders. Supplements that are promising fat loss and flat belly are not to be trusted and can be dangerous for your health.

Don’t trust the adverts that just want to take your money. Before taking any kind of supplements make sure to check what is it and what are the ingredients in it. Check its effect on your body.

Don’t compromise your health for a flat belly! There is nothing better than a healthy and balanced diet in a slight deficit for weight loss and shedding fat.

Waist slimming creams, lotions or serums. The same goes for these. There is very little evidence that these things even work. It would be great if they did, but their effectiveness is questionable to say at least. They often cost a lot of money, so before you decide to spend your money on an expensive cream ask yourself is it worth it?

With these tips, you’ll know the basics to get that abs you always wanted.

Don’t forget that weight loss and getting abs is not going to happen overnight, you’ll have to work for it. You’ll have to take care of your diet and make exercise a regular thing, not an occasional hobby.

Work hard and stay consistent & the results will come!

Renata Sanko

Renata Sanko

Certified postnatal specialist and a personal trainer with years spent on education and research on how to help women heal their body after birth. I have dedicated myself to help other women regain and heal their body after having a baby...

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In order to carry out our obligations under that contract we must process the information you give us. Some of this information may be personal information.

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Wherever possible, we aim to obtain your explicit consent to process this information, for example, by asking you to agree to our use of cookies.

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For example, we may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.

This may include your personal information.

 

Specific uses of information you provide to us

 

5. Information provided on the understanding that it will be shared with a third party

Our website allows you to post information with a view to that information being read, copied, downloaded, or used by other people.

Examples include:

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In posting personal information, it is up to you to satisfy yourself about the privacy level of every person who might use it.

We do store it, and we reserve a right to use it in the future in any way we decide.

Once your information enters the public domain, we have no control over what any individual third party may do with it. We accept no responsibility for their actions at any time.

Provided your request is reasonable and there is no legal basis for us to retain it, then at our discretion we may agree to your request to delete personal information that you have posted. You can make a request by contacting us at [email protected]

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We attempt to moderate user generated content, but we are not always able to do so as soon as that content is published.

If you complain about any of the content on our website, we shall investigate your complaint.

If we feel it is justified or if we believe the law requires us to do so, we shall remove the content while we investigate.

Free speech is a fundamental right, so we have to make a judgment as to whose right will be obstructed: yours, or that of the person who posted the content that offends you.

If we think your complaint is vexatious or without any basis, we shall not correspond with you about it.

7. Sending a message to our support team

When you contact us, whether by telephone, through our website or by e-mail, we collect the data you have given to us in order to reply with the information you need.

We record your request and our reply in order to increase the efficiency of our business.

We keep personally identifiable information associated with your message, such as your name and email address so as to be able to track our communications with you to provide a high quality service.

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We use that information to resolve your complaint.

If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter for our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and if we do, what that information is.

We may also compile statistics showing information obtained from this source to assess the level of service we provide, but not in a way that could identify you or any other person.

Use of information we collect through automated systems when you visit our website

 

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Requests by your web browser to our servers for web pages and other content on our website are recorded.

We record information such as your geographical location, your Internet service provider and your IP address. We also record information about the software you are using to browse our website, such as the type of computer or device and the screen resolution.

We use this information in aggregate to assess the popularity of the webpages on our website and how we perform in providing content to you.

If combined with other information we know about you from previous visits, the data possibly could be used to identify you personally, even if you are not signed in to our website.

11. Our use of re-marketing

Re-marketing involves placing a cookie on your computer when you browse our website in order to be able to serve to you an advert for our products or services when you visit some other website.

We may use a third party to provide us with re-marketing services from time to time. If so, then if you have consented to our use of cookies, you may see advertisements for our products and services on other websites.

Disclosure and sharing of your information

 

12. Information we obtain from third parties

Although we do not disclose your personal information to any third party (except as set out in this notice), we sometimes receive data that is indirectly made up from your personal information from third parties whose services we use.

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Third parties may advertise on our website. In doing so, those parties, their agents or other companies working for them may use technology that automatically collects information about you when their advertisement is displayed on our website.

They may also use other technology such as cookies or JavaScript to personalise the content of, and to measure the performance of their adverts.

We do not have control over these technologies or the data that these parties obtain. Accordingly, this privacy notice does not cover the information practices of these third parties.

14. Data may be processed outside the European Union

Our websites are hosted in United States of America.

We may also use outsourced services in countries outside the European Union from time to time in other aspects of our business.

Accordingly, data obtained within Ireland or any other country could be processed outside the European Union.

For example, some of the software our website uses may have been developed in the United States of America or in another country.

We use the following safeguards with respect to data transferred outside the European Union:

  • We only work with industry-standard providers and services such as Google, Facebook, Drip, Vimeo, MemberPress, ThriveCart or similar.
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Access to your own information

 

15. Access to your personal information

  • At any time, you may review or update personally identifiable information that we hold about you, by signing in to your account on our website.
  • To obtain a copy of any information that is not provided on our website you may send us a request at [email protected]
  • After receiving the request, we will tell you when we expect to provide you with the information, and whether we require any fee for providing it to you.

16. Removal of your information

If you wish us to remove personally identifiable information from our website, you may contact us at [email protected]

This may limit the service we can provide to you.

17. Verification of your information

When we receive any request to access, edit or delete personal identifiable information we shall first take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or otherwise taking any action. This is important to safeguard your information.

Other matters

 

18. Use of site by children

  • We do not sell products or provide services for purchase by children, nor do we market to children.
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19. Encryption of data sent between us

We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to verify our identity to your browser and to encrypt any data you give us.

Whenever information is transferred between us, you can check that it is done so using SSL by looking for a closed padlock symbol or other trust mark in your browser’s URL bar or toolbar.

20. How you can complain

  • If you are not happy with our privacy policy or if have any complaint then you should tell us by email. Our address is [email protected]
  • If a dispute is not settled then we hope you will agree to attempt to resolve it by engaging in good faith with us in a process of mediation or arbitration.
  • If you are in any way dissatisfied about how we process your personal information, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland. This can be done at https://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/complaints/1592.htm

21. Retention period for personal data

Except as otherwise mentioned in this privacy notice, we keep your personal information only for as long as required by us:

  • to provide you with the services you have requested;
  • to comply with other law, including for the period demanded by our tax authorities;
  • to support a claim or defence in court.

22. Compliance with the law

Our privacy policy has been compiled so as to comply with the law of every country or legal jurisdiction in which we aim to do business. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your jurisdiction, we should like to hear from you.

However, ultimately it is your choice as to whether you wish to use our website.

23. Review of this Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy notice from time to time as necessary. The terms that apply to you are those posted here on our website on the day you use our website. We advise you to print a copy for your records.

If you have any question regarding our privacy policy, please contact us.

This Privacy Policy was last updated in April 2020.

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