Getting strong stomach muscles or abs is a desire for so many people but unfortunately it does not come to those without hard work and sacrifice.
Stress has become part of daily life. Job pressure, financial insecurity, problems in personal relations, traffic & pollution all take a heavy toll of our mental well being.
All the above factors combined with continuous negative thinking and not living in the present moment lead to a pressure-cooker environment of the mind
All of us lead a life either in the past or in the future. Your mind either thinks about the past or fantasizes and worries about the past. Nobody lives in the present moment living every moment and enjoying it as it is!
This constant oscillation of the mind from past to present and present to past like a pendulum takes a heavy toll of your mind and body. Stress builds up and ageing becomes accelerated. The efficiency of the body's various fat burning organs becomes very low.
Stress is the main cause of stored toxins in the body. These toxins impair the normal functioning of the various fat burning and excretory organs like thyroid gland, lever, kidney etc.
This results in the body not being able to cope up with even normal pressures exerted at various levels due to heavy work or faulty diet and the net result is obesity and weight gain.
How many times have you heard that by doing 100s crunches a day you will get those sculpted abs? Well, this is not so. If you have a high body fat percentage, the abs just won't show no matter how much you work or how many repetitions you do, simple as that. It is logic, if we are carrying extra fat, toned muscles cannot show because they are being covered, precisely, by that unwanted extra fat. The only way to get rid of fat is not by targeting exercises, but by burning excessive fat by doing cardio exercises and adjusting our meals. In other words, showing abs does not happen only in the floor exercise, but also in the kitchen.
Abs exercises, just like any other muscle exercises, should be done at least every other day, not daily. Muscles need time to recover. In my case, I am doing abs exercises every 2 days, so I give my abs muscles 48 hours to recover. I make sure to consume enough protein too to help for muscle recovery and burn more fat. In a nutshell, eating better and exercising will maximize your efforts to lose weight and flatten your abs fast.