Friday, December 19, 2008

Girls With Abs Reveal All

By Dan Solaris

A shredded mid section always looks great on a person. The only thing sexier than a guy strolling on the shore with a ripped abdomen is a bikini-clad girl with six pack abs.

Tastes and standards have changed with the times. The image of the voluptuous, busty bombshell with the pouting scarlet lips has been replaced by the toned and tanned surfer chick with cut abs.

Women that are fit with good muscle tone are the epitome of sexiness now. Everywhere you look- on the silver screen, in the fitness infomercials on the boob tube and on beaches everywhere. Swimsuits and six-packs: the perfect combination.

People may think girls with six pack abs go through a gauntlet of intense, excruciating abdominal exercises for several hours each day. Not so. All that active women (and men, for that matter) have to do to is just lose excess body fat to reveal all the ab muscles underneath.

Cardio and muscle-building exercises designed to burn belly fat in women is generally the same as that of men- there's basically no difference (except for the weight lifted of course, as men are generally larger than their counterparts).

There's actually little difference in the skeletal muscle of men and women. Consequently, exercises and food intake for effective muscle-building and fat-loss for both sexes are the same. It's common-sense, really- burn belly fat, reveal the abs.

Experts have discovered that the surefire way to getting ripped abs entails exercises designed to burn body fat and build muscle. The secret to exposing the lines and striations of abdominal muscles (as with any other muscle) lies in eliminating the layer of sub-cutaneous fat covering it. The shredded look would be impossible without burning-off excess body fat and keeping it off.

Lifting weights builds muscle and since muscle tissue burns calories (even while immobile), the more of it we have, the easier it would be for our bodies to avoid storing fat from excess calories. Our metabolism goes up, the more calories we burn and this inadvertently means the less effort we have to exert in our workouts. Weight lifting and exercises that burn belly-fat effectively are universal- it's the same for both guys and girls. - 16083

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