Wrong concepts, opinions, rumors, and theories to flatten your Abs

1. If You Train Abs Everyday, You're Guaranteed A Six-pack.
This misconception was funneled through the bodybuilding world. Muscle tissue is muscle tissue. It needs to rest and recover just like your biceps or legs do. Build the tissue through exercise, burn the fat through diet

2. You Can Eat Pizza And Hamburgers And Still Maintain A Six-pack As Long As You Workout Right After You Eat Them.
This is another misconception. Following a diet, which contributes to muscle gaining and fat loss, is the key to uncovering those abdominal muscles. Go into your local fast food restaurant and look around - how many of people will you see that have an envious abdominal region? Odds are, none.

3. Sit-ups Build Abdominal Definition The Best.
Sit-ups are perhaps the worst exercise for strengthening our core regions. There are many sources that contribute to this belief but just a few simple reasons why it is incorrect. During a sit-up your main trunk flexor, the Iliopsoas muscle, does most of the work. This over facilitation often leads to lumbar lordosis, better known as, back pain. Want sturdy hips and a sore back? Do sit-ups.

4. Crunches Build Abdominal Definition Best.
Crunches are good but the last exercise we will do in our core-conditioning program. The overuse of crunch type exercises leads to a reduction in thoracic extension and contributes to bad posture.

5. People On Magazine Covers Are Born With Good Midsection's.
This misconception leads to many people trying to be like someone else. These models, men and women, are somewhat genetically gifted, sure. But many of them aren’t as healthy as they appear under their make-up and many others are also using drugs like clenbuterol and steroids.

6. You Should Do Twists With A Stick Or Side Bends To Reduce Love Handles.
These exercises can be dangerous if not performed correctly. I recommend taking them out of your routine, as you'll see in the exercise section, until you know enough about the spine to benefit from them. To reduce love handles you simply need to lose the fat. Our coreconditioning program will contribute to toning the musculature in this area; however, fat loss is again, stimulated only through diet.

7. If You Do Sit-ups With Weights, Your Abs Will Show up Better.
Doing sit-ups with additional weight leads to over strengthening the hip flexor muscles, not the upper abdominals. Want to walk around butt back and stomach forward? Neither do I.

8. It Takes Years To Get Great Abs.
Again you have to understand that everyone has abdominal muscles. You just have to train them with exercises in the proper order, with correct form and reduce the fat surrounding them by dieting. For some this may take only a few weeks, for others, a little longer. Different body types develop at different rates.

9. Machines Work Best For Building Abdominal Muscles.
This is a huge misconception. Isolating musculature incorrectly leads people down the road to becoming dysfunctional misfits! Machine training should be left to periods of rehabilitation only.
Every body needs to move and function as one cohesive unit, not in isolated parts. When you sit on a machine, the machine stabilizes the body. Odds are you never learned to integrate other musculature with abdominal/core movements, which leads to injuries, by unbalancing the body.

10. Constantly Eating Rabbit Food is Needed to Maintain a Defined Midsection.
Following a proper nutritional program designed for your goals is the only way to develop a defined midsection.