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1. As a good San Diego personal trainer, I have been asked so
many times on what is the ideal exercise to get abs. So
what exactly is the ideal exercise for the midsection? The
answer is counterintuitive and may surprise you.

2. I'll address this inquiry on the perspective that it is
usually asked. People are usually not searching for the
exercise which will make their abdominal muscles stronger
and larger. What many people actually want to know is
how to make their tummy small, firm, toned, and defined.
Sounds good?

3. Usually, there are two things that lead to a pleasant look
at the abs: first, less fat around your middle and second,
stronger, firmer, and larger abdominal muscles. The reason
why both of these elements are very important is the fact
that layer of fat that is on top of your abdominals needs to
be thin enough to be able to notice the muscles beneath
it. And when that layer of fat is thin enough, the bigger
the abdominal muscles, the easier it is to notice them and
they'll look more "defined". These items are not of
equal importance on the way your abs looks, however.
Stronger and larger abdominal muscles simply become
relevant if the layer of fat on your stomach region is thin
enough that you can see the outlines of your muscles
beneath the layer of fat. Almost everyone has excessive
fat in the abdominal area to notice the abdominal

4. Strangely enough, there is no way to "spot reduce" fat
on the body. Doing an exercise for the specific area on
your body will not result in excess fat to get lost just from
that particular area. In other words, despite the efforts of
many individuals to do this, you cannot start a whole
bunch of crunches (which directly work your stomach
muscles) and believe that you're going to hasten losing
fat just from the stomach area. Instead, once your body
loses fat, it loses fat from all throughout the body. (It may
shed more fat from some areas compared, although how
much it will lose from each area will be based on the
inherited genetic programming for how the body
proportionally gains and losses fat.) So, in order to shed
fat from the abdominals to make the midsection lean and
defined, you have to lose fat all over the body.

5. So what is the best exercise for losing fat from all over
your body? Well, out of everything you can do, nutrition
certainly has the major effect on fat loss. So nutrition is
definitely the most important thing to pay attention to for
leaner abs. As far as exercise though, the most important
workouts are those that work the main muscles in the
body because they have the biggest effect on boosting
your metabolism.

6. The workout that almost all of our clients do that works
with the largest muscles in your body is a leg press. So,
what's the ideal exercise for your midsection? I said the
answer is counterintuitive - for most people it is actually
the leg press.

7. Out of all the exercises we normally use, the leg press
works with the majority of the muscle in your body. So it
gets the biggest possibility of adding lean muscle tissue to
your body and so the greatest potential for helping
increase your metabolism. It is the exercise that when put
together with appropriate nutrition can help you shed fat.
Because you cannot spot reduce fat from the abs (or
anywhere else on your body), it is the exercise that has
the greatest effect on helping you lose fat from the
abdominal region too. Achieving less fat in your
abdominal region is considered the one that will have the
biggest impact on how your midsection looks, and also the
leg press is the exercise that helps you do that the most.

8. So, to get a lean and defined midsection: first and
foremost focus on a good nutrition plan that will help you
shed fat. Then, when it comes to exercise, your main
concern is to challenge your muscles as deeply as you
possibly can on each exercise to help you stimulate the
metabolism. This is especially important with the leg
press. You need to get to the point on the leg press that
after several repetitions your muscles become so fatigued
that completing another repetition is not only difficult, it
really is impossible. You're pushing as hard as you can,
and the weight won't budge even a fraction of an inch
because the muscles became so fatigued. At this point
continue maximally pushing for a few more seconds, and
you'll fatigue the body's main muscles a lot more.
Achieving this sends the most powerful signal possible to

9. With my experience being a San Diego personal trainer,
nutrition plays the biggest role for fat loss and the way
your midsection looks. But for exercise, the leg press has
the biggest impact on your metabolism and about how
lean and attractive you can get with your abdominal area.

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