What you eat is important
What you put into your body is the most important part of any fat burning program. You can't eat what you want and then expect the fat to start disappearing from your stomach.
A healthy diet that is low in sugar will keep your body in a fat burning state. Eating your meals at the right time of day will increase yoru metabolism so your body continues to burn fat instead of storing it.
Protein
Protein is the building blocks of your muscular structure. This is important when it comes to burning fat as your muscles are more important than you might think.
Eating more protein also gives you a fuller feeling after you have eaten a meal.Protein also burns more calories while it's being digested than carbohydrates will.
Fat
Don't be afraid of eating fat when you're trying to burn it from your body. You're not carrying extra fat now because you've eaten too much of it. You're carrying extra fat because your metabolism isn't as fast as it could be, and your insulin levels are too high.
Eating good healthy fats controls your insulin levels, and this prevents your body storing the calories you eat as fat.
Low fat diets are not healthy, you only need to eat a low fat diet if your doctor has advised you to.
Carbohydrates
Some people who are trying to burn fat will start one of those fad, low carb diets that have been given a lot of exposure over the last few years. These diets will work wonders in the short term when you're trying to lose weight, but most of the weight loss is water weight and your muscles getting smaller.
Carbohydrates are fuel for your muscles and carbs also help your muscles recover faster after exercise. If you eat a low carb diet you won't have the energy to exercise, and you need to exercise to burn fat for a six pack stomach.
Low carb diets also cause depression as carbs are a good mood food. You won't feel very good if you have no energy either which adds to the depression.
5 to 6 meals a day
To burn fat from your body you need to eat 5 to 6 meals a day. This might sound a lot more than you're eating now, but the meals will be smaller.
Eating more often speeds up your metabolism, and prevents your body from storing calories as fat. If you only eat three meals a day the time between your meals will be too long. This causes your body to go into starvation mode, and when it does this it starts storing fat.
Most people that are overweight don't sit around eating all day. They're probably yo-yo dieters who aren't eating enough, or they only eat one big meal a day late at night. Your body learns that it is only getting food so many times of the day so it will store the calories as fat as a natural survival instinct.
Your body will also use your muscles as energy between your meals as these burn the most calories, and your body will want to burn less calories because of the lack of meals in your day. So it does this by naturally making your muscles smaller so your metabolic rate slows down.
Your body learns to adjust to the amount of calories you're eating so it doesn't mater if you're eating 2000 a day or 1000 a day, your body will make sure it only burns off what you're putting in to it.
Once your body gets to know that it will be receiving a meal every 2 to 3 hours during the day it will have no need to start storing fat, and it will burn off what you have eaten a lot quicker.
Exercise
After working out what you're going to eat every day your exercise program is next. For most people trying to get a set of six pack abs this means doing as many crunches a day or using their latest ab-machine for hours.
These are not the way you get a flat, washboard stomach. Burning fat from your stomach requires you to exercise your whole body, and not just your abs.
You can't burn fat from one part of your body. Fat burns at the same rate over your entire body, but your stomach is usually the last place that your muscles will start showing.
Building your muscles
Making your muscles bigger is the next important part of your six pack routine after you have a healthy diet worked out. Bigger muscles means a faster metabolic rate, and when you raise your metabolism your body burns fat even when you're resting.
You haven't got to start looking like a body builder for a faster metabolic rate, you just need to add some more muscle than your have now. A few extra pounds of muscle will help your body naturally burn more calories every day.
A few gym workouts a week will be enough to increase your metabolic rate to the point where you're burning fat continuously.
Work on the large muscle groups
Because most people think that working the abs gives them a six pack they forget about the rest of their muscles, and this is a big mistake. The person that works on their back, chest and legs will see the muscles in their stomach a lot quicker than someone who works on their abs all the time.
Working on these larger muscles increases your metabolism at a faster rate. These muscles need burn more energy than other muscles so as they get bigger your whole body gets leaner.
Working on these muscle groups also help the rest of your muscles get bigger. Doing bicep curls doesn't make your arms bigger, getting the rest of your body bigger makes your arms grow.
Working on these larger muscles needs all of your other smaller muscles to work as well so they get a workout at the same time. This has a massive effect on the rate in which your body burns fat.
Exercises like squats and dead-lifts workout your whole body, and strengthen you from the core. Your abs are used in these exercises as well even if you don't feel it.
Doing your cardio
Your cardio will give your metabolism an extra boost, and this is the part of your program that burns extra fat. You don't want to do long boring cardio though, you need to do interval training which much more of a shock to your body, and will burn a lot more fat.
Interval training is hard exercise for about 30 seconds to a minute then you rest for a short period of time to get your breath back, then you go again. This raises your heart rate for a short period, then it drops again, and then you raise it again.
This type of cardio burns a lot more fat then a steady boring program that keeps your heart at a constant rate in the so called "fat burning zone". Interval training like this also prevents your muscles from being used as fuel when you do your cardio. Just look at sprinters compared to long distance runners. Sprinters are powerfully built because they do their training in short bursts, and long distance runners do long boring cardio that uses the whole body as fuel.
It's the same with sprint cyclists and athletes in the Tour De France. Sprint cyclists are powerfully built and long distance cyclists are small framed .
The less your muscles break down when you're doing your cardio the higher your metabolism will be. Your resting state metabolism is important to successfully burning fat and giving you your six pack abs.
What you must avoid
Things you must avoid are expensive supplements. These are appetite suppressants and fat burning supplements. The only thing they will do is make your pocket smaller.
Appetite suppressants ( the most popular being Hoodia ) will make you fatter in the long term. Because you'll be eating less your body will start losing muscle, and this will mean your metabolism will slow down.
When you start eating properly again after you stop taking the pills ( no one can stay on them forever, and it's not recommended you do ) your new slower metabolism will mean your body will store all the extra calories you're eating as fat.
The companies that supply these pills love this because they know when the person gets fatter again they will be straight back purchasing more pills.
Fat burning pills are a waste of money as well. There's no scientific proof that these burn fat, and in the end just cost you a fortune every month.
You just need focus and dedication
To successfully get a set of six pack abs you just need to focus on the end result. Once you know what you want and what you need to do to get their your enthusiasm will take over.
All you need is a balanced diet where you eat the correct amount of food at the right time of the day, and a good exercise program. You won't need any expensive ab-machines or supplements.
Once your routine kicks in and your metabolism speeds up you'll start noticing your results.
This article i cut n paste frm a website. i just wanna put it here so i can read it frm time to time

17 comments:
muahahahahahhaha...
tsk tsk tsk... what a laptop would make my husband do.
I never say you cannot eat, you can, but cut down.
imagine me a shark, u must use the correct bait to umpan me lah. no point u give me milliondolar things that i tak suka, sure won't get motivated mah hahahaahahaha
cindy: so apa yg countloon suka? hihihi...
IMHO: no point posting the info in the blog so that you could read it from time to time but no action taken towards achieving it from time to time. macam letak poster body building on the wall, tiap2 hari tgk but never go 2d gym. hehehe...
Anyway I would say that this is a good start for countloon towards achieving a leaner and healthier body.
I pun rasa dah semakin gemok. Let's us go jogging n gym every evening. Wangsa maju punya gym very cheap n full of slim n muscular ppl to assist us. then every weekend go play paintball to sweat n burn down the fat while enjoying d game. after dat only go sauna. after all, money spent is for your ownself, your own body, your own health. It's worth it.
Let us embark on a healthy lifestyle. not only by eating healthy food. hahaha...
anyway it's you life bro. U decide wat u want. your wife n frens can only motivate and persuade u. but final decision is still up to tuan punya badan. Cheers :)
ps: but if your target is just to achieve 80kg, then just mintak the ubat from mej zul. makan sebulan, sure kurus n kurang berat. senang dan mudah.. hahahaha
hwahhhh!!! Bersemangat setelah membaca!
anyways... he's right. Loon, I don't really prefer you to go muscle building or anything... you know I'm terrified of muscular guys!
simple nia, cut down ur food and play squash... i don't know if jogging is your style.
tony, apa itu IMHO??
wanna go jogging gua no prb. mana?
wanna go gym n nak bayar, tak nak
wanna play pb n bayar, tak nak
janji free punya then semua ok. now nak berjimat lah bro dan terpaksa berperangai cerewet sikit. tapi kalo sauna n kena bayar, boleh difikirkan lagi kecuali wanna go IKEM aje. hahahahahahaha
IMHO google on it la! = in my humble opinion
duit simpan byk2 bukan bole bawak mati bro. simpan itu kemestian, but belanja utk diri sendiri oso must ada. sudah tua baru nak belanja, takut menyesal aje... ini tak bole, itu tak bole.. takut patah tulang.. dat one oso if sempat nak tua! hahaha
jog kat wangsamaju. gym RM4 only. lets go sauna at grand season esok!
tony, if i achieve 80kg when i meet her, she will get me an alienware laptop mah
Tony... yang Loon simpan duit byk byk memang pun tak boleh dibawa mati... itu untuk kasi wife ma.
Yang Loon skrang jimat cermat coz' he takut later kalah the bet, he perlu bayar me duit ma. :)
hmmm... kasi wife.. baik sungguh loon ini. :) janji bahagia
Bro, I am 85kg liaw...
I believed in fundamental principle in everything... WAT iz the FUNDAMENTAL Principle for NOT eating in Malaysia? Its like drugs addiction lar..
tony, takkan u tak tau my next plan kan? i tak simpan duit, siapa lagi simpan for me? skot-skot kah? i bukannya ada lembus atau sponsors for all those things i wanna do, all guna duit sendili aje n bukannay beratus ratus aje. kalo all those aktiviti semua, free i memang akan join. i bukannya ada biz to support those aktiviti also, harap gaji aje mah. nak enjoy siklanag tapi later tak cukup duit, cam mana? padan muka sendiri kan. duit memang tak boleh dibawa mati tapi ada duit mati ngan mata tertutup, takda duit mati ngan mata terbeliak lah ahahhahahahaha
bern, just whack anything u can whack but make sure ur processing unit is fast enough to digest and exhaust out the waste hahahahahah
Don't need to have so much money... just have enough to buy wat you want. So Loon... I want quite a lot of things... skot skot yang ada lembu semua boleh contribute kalo nak. nanti i bagi wishlist. hehe...
Nolar, I agree with Anton, don't keep things till you're old. But I guess Loon's just not into PB or sauna and all now, last time maybe yes... if he really likes something, trust me, money is not an object and his wife is almost invisible! :P
i m being push to face the reality now mah, that's why cashflow kena jaga too
like what those mlm ppl want me to join their downline, ask to invest byk byk. i told them i wanna quit army dah not sure my income how. they said ask me go pinjam duit frm bank n etc to invest. so i ask them they trust me or not, they said yes, of course. so i ask them to pinjam me their money n i invest to become their downline since they trust me and they can monitor me as their downline kan.
sampai today takda feedback punggggg
Loon, ask the duke, count and all them gth. haha... a sales person will say anything to sell something... unless the ethical ones.
yang penting hati senang, klau kurus susah hati takut gemuk in future, baik gemuk tak susah hati klau kurus in future.hahaha.
cipet punya prinsip lah kamal! hhahahahah no wonder u gemukkan diri dari sikalang
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