I Don’t Often Find Fitness Programs With Real Fitness Ad
I don’t often write reviews, but I’ve made an exception in this case. I believe there is more than just hype to the well known abs program ‘The Truth About Abs’. Most ‘lose fat’ information on the web tends to be just a lot of sales copy in front of a gimmicky product or crash diet. The reason I want you to read this whole article is so you can see that there is actually some solid information in this plan, and if followed will change your success with your get fit and stay fit endevours.
What I’m talking about is what I’m about to review for you – giving you a solid understanding about what kind of information is really required to obtain success with a fitness plan. I’m talking about a well known book written by Certified Nutrition Specialist and Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) Mike Geary, called “The Truth About Abs”. It is often seen as a program only designed to get six pack abs. While this is the goal, for sure, what you may not have realized is that the plan WAY exceeds that goal, by providing sound fitness and nutrional information required to achieving fitness results. You also find out the most effective exercises and routines that will boost your fitness into fat burning, core strengthening territory. This combination is what will burn the fat and create a flat stomach. The book contains the following 3 general sections:
1. Introduction, important information on what it means to be lean, factors affecting your metabolism, a review of body fat percentage, training your abs, and lean vs fat body mass.
2. Full workouts, how to exercise more efficiently, explanation of multi-joint vs single joint exercises, along with total body work outs. Mike also explains why cardio IS NOT helping you lose weight the way you’ve always been told; and
3. Diet and Nutrition, explanation of how blood sugar and insulin affect your diet program, the Glycemic Index, and the calorie burning properties (thermic effect) of food.
The workout schedules are easy to follow and don’t take up much of your time. The Truth About Abs training program is broken down into two sections that include Interval training and Resistance and Weight training. Mike suggests that anything longer then 45-60 minutes per session is not a good use of your time. He breaks down his training program into 45-60 minute session, 3-4 times per week.
This amount of excercise should be easy to fit into your schedule if you are serious about drastically changing your body tone and getting in shape. The best thing about this program is that you don’t really need a gym or equipment, but the recommended set of equipment can be purchased for $30-40 – a set of dumbells and an exercise ball is all you need to do the programs set out in the Truth About Abs program.
The Truth About Abs program has a specific meal plan consisting of 5-6 smaller meals, eaten every 3 hours. A great tip that Mike explains is to take your meal plan and shop for everything once per week. This makes it easy to prepare and stick with the more frequent smaller meals you need to be effective on this plan.
Beyond planned, smaller and more frequent meals The Truth About Abs explains how to calculate your daily caloric intake requirements, and use that as a guide line for what we should eat. This section is really enlightening. You can eat regular and tasty meals and still lose weight. I can assure you that this is not a salad diet. In fact, there is an entire section of this book which explains why crash diets actually cause weight gain.
In fact you should never feel hungry if you follow this plan. HOWEVER, this will probably be a change from your regular eating patterns, and so you need to be disciplined and make sure to follow the recommended diet plans. The book is quite clear that the nutrition part of the plan is a FULL 50% of your success – if you only train and still eat poorly, then you will not get the optimum results. Making sure to combine the exercise and nutrition plans described by Mike will ensure that you will progress towards your weight and fitness goals.
If you’ve been thinking of trying to lose weight for some time now, this is a great opportunity to make it happen. Mikes program contains so much information about how to really make your exercise and diet work together, it really is one of the most effective programs available today. You must put some effort in, but he tells you how to make it all work, in the most effective way possible.
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