2887: Why Nobody Has the Abs They Want (And It's Not Body Fat)
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If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mind Pump.
What are the biggest mistakes people make when training their abs?
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Why are high reps ineffective for building abdominal muscles?
With your hosts, Sal DiStefano, Adam Schafer, and Justin Andrews.
You just found the most downloaded fitness, health, and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pump. Today, we're going to talk about how not... to train your abs.
How do hip flexors interfere with effective ab training?
Everybody wants a nice midsection. They want a six pack and almost everybody trains it wrong. We break it down and tell you how to do it the right way. By the way, we have a program that's designed to help you develop a six pack to give you an incredible midsection. It's the most effective midsection training program around. It's the most effective program to get a six pack.
What is the importance of full range of motion for ab exercises?
It's a relaunch. It's been revamped. This program we've had for a long time,
Why do rest periods matter in ab training?
Tons of people have followed it. Lots and lots of great reviews.
What are the consequences of avoiding oblique exercises?
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How can the No BS 6-Pack Formula improve ab training?
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All right, look, you want a nice looking midsection. You want a six pack. You want to look trim. You're doing it all wrong. We're talking about how not to train your abs. These are mistakes everybody makes. This is why nobody has nice looking abs. Let's get to it. Stop messing it up. How not to. We're going to talk about the big mistakes that everybody makes when training their abs. And for some reason, we view the abs or the core as if it's some different kind of muscle that responds differently to exercise. And we got to train it in a particular way. We don't really apply this to any other body parts. And then people wonder why they don't get great results when training the core.
You have the best pulse on commercial gyms because you go to two of them pretty regularly. Yep. Is this still a rampant problem? It's still the way it is.
It has not changed. When I see people training their abs or their core in commercial gyms, it looks like what we're about to talk about. It has not changed in 20 years. People still haven't figured it out. And here's the good news, you guys. The good news is if you train them the right way, the results you get with your abs is phenomenal. And I mean, exceptional. Like 30 to 60 days, you see massive changes in how your abs look if you just train them the right way. So I'll start with the first thing. Somehow a long time ago, the idea was put into our minds that you need to train your abs with really, really high reps. Like lots and lots and lots of reps. And I think it may stem from the false idea that feeling the burn burns body fat maybe from an area is where I'm guessing, you know, the whole idea of spot reduction.
I feel like a lot of those like at home videos, like the Jane Fonda's and the Jazzercise and a lot of the prescription there was always just like so many reps. And it was like, that was sort of what you'd see in the gyms. It just kind of trickled in the gyms and everybody thought that, you know, you have to do at least a hundred, 200 crunches.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:07
2
What are the biggest mistakes people make when training their abs?
0:07–0:07
3
Why are high reps ineffective for building abdominal muscles?
0:07–0:21
4
How do hip flexors interfere with effective ab training?
0:21–0:42
5
What is the importance of full range of motion for ab exercises?
0:42–0:46
6
Why do rest periods matter in ab training?
0:46–0:50
7
What are the consequences of avoiding oblique exercises?
0:50–0:56
8
How can the No BS 6-Pack Formula improve ab training?
0:56–24:31
Speakers
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