Awesome Abs

"It hurts" and' "It's hard" gets to the root reasons many people don't exercise, at least not in the calorie burning "zone." Not to suggest that we must all subscribe to the "no pain, no gain" theory, but It would be disingenuous to suggest making changes in the human physique comes easily. Let me check that statement. We all know, and some of us better than others, gaining weight seems to happen almost effortlessly. At least, we don't generally cry and complain as we eat that extra donut or another handful of chips.

Our waists can expand virtually unnoticed until a button or belt takes more effort to fasten. Removing excess body tissue from the midsection takes a great deal of effort, especially the older we get. Hence, the average person doesn't have a "six pack" or "washboard" abs. Oddly, social ideals makes many people long to have magazine cover abs. This gets garbled with the another social reality in our country, that every thing can happen easily and quickly.

Numerous infomercials take advantage of both. These marketers want to you believe there's a miracle abdominal exercise or single piece of equipment to make fantasy abs appear practically overnight. The fact remains, working and toning abs proves rather complex. Upper, lower and obliques abdominals all require different movements to stretch, strengthen and reshape them. Moreover, these exercises need to happen with frequency and intensity, both of which lead to pain during exercises and often an uncomfortable midsection afterwards. This brings us back to where this blog started.

Hard abs require hard work. It's unpleasant more times than not, but boy do they look good!

Tom