Weight Lifting Workouts

How To Get A Six Pack focuses on great ab exercises, weight lifting workouts and a strict but sensible abs diet. In our last article, Turn Fat Into Muscle, we described the benefits of building muscles. This article on weight lifting workouts will focus on the workout plan that you need to do to turn fat into muscle.

As discussed in Turn Fat Into Muscle, for each pound of muscle you build your body will automatically burn an extra fifty calories per day. Therefore you have to start disciplined weight lifting workouts.

A strong weight lifting workout needs to focus on all of your muscle groups. I like to start by working out the largest muscle groups first. These large muscle groups like you chest muscles, back muscles and quad will allow you to build the most muscle. And, since you will be building muscle you will turn fat into muscle too.

Here is a list of weight lifting exercises that we will focus on.

1. Squats
2. Bench Press
3. Push-ups
4. Lat Pulldowns
5. Shoulder Press or Military Press
6. Upright Rows
7. Leg Extensions
8. Leg Curls
9. Bicep Curls
10. Tricep Pulldowns

These ten exercises will make up the core of our weight lifting workouts.

Turn Fat Into Muscle

To get a six pack, you need to turn fat into muscle. So far on How To Get A Six Pack we have provided you with an overview of how to get six pack abs. We have also provided you with an overview of the ab exercises you need to focus on to get six pack abs. In this article we focus on how to turn fat into muscle.

Everyone can get six pack abs if they exercise and diet to turn fat into muscle. Building a washboard stomach is not impossible because you already have ab muscles, they are just covered up by your gut. If you turn this fat into muscle, you too will have a six pack of abs. Now it will not be easy to build this muscle, but we will give you an abs plan.

Why do we focus on having ripped abs? Well, I think that we all view strong abdominal muscles as a symbol of fitness. Actors and actresses with sexy abs are displayed on every magazine cover. The world around us is fatter than ever, but our visions of fitness all have abs of steel.

So how does Britney Spears get that six pack of abs? Britney got that six pack by doing ab exercises, focusing on a full body workout, not just her ab workout, and sticking to a strict abs diet focused on building muscle instead of fat. By following these three steps you too can build a six pack of abs.

You need to lose you stomach fat to be able to see your ripped abs. We need to focus on gaining muscle which will help us to burn the fat. Muscle burns more calories per hour than fat. This is great news for us. If we focus on building muscle, these new muscles will help us to turn fat into muscle. That is the beauty of a full body workout program.

By building muscle we are going to burn more fat even while we are resting. It is like compound interest for your 401k. For every pound of muscle that we gain, our bodies burn 50 more calories a day. Therefore by building muscle, we get two benefits from the same new muscles. We have built the muscle and now that new muscle will help us to burn fat away.