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Seaweed For A Flat Stomach

I should start a collection of the things that come through the spam side of my email account.

Usually I'm bombarded with Viagra type ads. I have to admit that their sales pitch is usually interesting and humorous to read.

Naturally I get a lot of weight loss adds along with the sexual enhancement ads.

It's always about a pill. The cure all for our problems.

But I have never thought that you could get a flat stomach by taking a pill made of seaweed.

The scary thing is that people actually fall for this crap. Always looking for the miracle pill.

Here's the ad. Please don't go buy it though. You may as well go eat dirt.

A Fitness Solution For Busy People

If you are like me, and I think you might be, you have a busy life with job and family. Too much to do and too little time to get it all done.

But what you would like to do is a fitness program that doesn't take up so much time. Where are you going to find that extra hour to go to the gym and get in a decent workout. Maybe you can do it in the morning before you go to work. We all know how that goes for most people. You wake up energetic for a couple of mornings and then you start making excuses and before long you aren't going at all.

You can always go after work and stop at the gym on your way home. But then the kids have sports and you have to have dinner and, and, and........

One more possibility is to go to the gym after dinner. That won't work either because you are winding down and feeling full from dinner. Besides you would like to spend some quality time with the wife and kids before they go to bed.

Does that just about cover it?

Now what if you could get your workout done in 7 minutes. What a difference that would make. Then you wouldn't miss quality time with the family, wouldn't have to get up so early in the morning, and could easily stop by the gym after work.

If the thought of a 7 minute workout sounds intriguing then you need to take a look at Jon Benson's 7 Minute Muscle program.

I had my suspicions about his claims and real doubts that it was anything more than another marketing ploy by a fitness trainer. I have just finished reading his 7 Minute Muscle program and you know what? I think it will work. I figured that with his guarantee I had nothing to lose.

Going through his program gave me all the proof I needed to know that it works. Jon backs up everything he says with good documentation. I might add that the read was enjoyable. Not too long(83 pages) and no fluff.

I have worked out my whole and can hardly wait to get started.

Ab Myths

I don't have an affiliation with Christopher Guerriero or his products his products but I do subscribe to his newsletter for information about health, fitness and nutrition. His article on ab workouts is informative enough that I thought I should reprint it at Not Old Yet.

Ab training has been done to death but it's time to take another look. Why? Because people are still training their abs wrong so all that ab training information must not be doing the right job.

Here's a list of the top Myths about Abdominal Training that you should avoid at all costs...

1 - There's no such thing as Spot Reducing - Endless crunches will not melt away the fat from your midsection. It just doesn't work that way. And despite the "burn" of high rep ab exercises, you barely burn any calories while doing those endless crunches.

Your fat burning time is best spent elsewhere on more effective "cardio" training.

2 - The Abs are a Muscle and should be trained as such. You don't need high reps and lots of sets to work your abs. This just leads to over training.

Now, abs are a more endurance oriented muscle so slightly higher reps may be more effective. However, you should keep the reps at 20 or lower and work on increasing the resistance and variety in your training.

Yes, you should be increasing the weights on ab exercises, just like your other exercises. The stronger your abs, the better they will look when the fat is stripped away.

Ever see a really thin guy with a flat stomach but no abs? In that instance, the abs haven't been trained and aren't developed enough to stand out even when the fat is stripped away.

3 - Don't train the abs more than necessary - What the heck do I mean by this? Well, your abs get a lot of indirect work from other exercises so you really won't need more than a couple of hard sets of weighted crunches to work your abs.

Your abs are a factor in exercises such as squats, dead lifts, seated or standing presses, dumbbell pullovers, pulldowns, etc.

Don't believe me?

Next time you work out, do a few hard sets of standing stiff armed pulldowns on the lat machine and tell me your abs aren't sore the next day. I did them yesterday and my abs are more sore than my back today.

If you want to develop a flat stomach with your abs visible, you need to treat your abs the same as your other muscles. And you need to strip away the fat with a proper training and nutrition program designed around total fat loss (like that found in the Living Health Audio Program), not trying to spot reduce through endless crunches.

The number of ab machines constantly coming to market is mind boggling. Especially considering that they aren't needed and won't give you the results that you want unless you begin training your abs like regular muscles rather than like a machine that needs 100 reps to get primed up..

Let's set the record straight on ab training right now and give you the real information you need so you can say no to the next infomercial ab machine and yes to actual results.

1 - Training your abs consistently and persistently will eventually give you the flat stomach or six-pack that you want.

But it's not gonna happen if your abs are covered by a layer of body fat and doing endless sets of ab exercises is not the way to rid yourself of that excess body fat - even if you buy the most expensive ab machine on the most motivating infomercial.

2 - Skip a day in between your ab training days.

Your abs are a muscle, just like your chest, lats, arms and so on. You should train your abs just like these other muscles, with progressive resistance and high intensity - then allow them to rest and recover. Never train your abs more than 3 days a week.

3 - You don't need to do hundreds or reps and feel the burn to get great abs.

To get six pack abs you need to strip off the fat, but you also need to build the abs to get them to really pop out. You can see a great 5 minute abdominal workout in The 2 Day Workout.

If the muscle isn't developed, you'll just have a flat stomach but no abs. The name of the game is progressive resistance for sets of 8 - 20 reps, just like your other muscles.

You need a proper weight lifting program, nutrition plan, and cardio program in order to rid your stomach of that stubborn layer of fat and bring your abs.

You can get a great program in Maximize Your Metabolism or if you don't have time to read, you can get an incredible audio program in The Living Health Weight Loss Audio Series, or if you just need the exercises without the diet and other lifestyle changes, then get yourself a copy of The 2 Day Workout.

Just Another Bonus?

Ever noticed that when people are selling a product online and they are giving away a bonus it is the same bonus everyone else is using.

I try hard not to be influenced by a bonus. They are usually just crap and I don't need it. I want the product being sold.

I am changing my way of thinking with the bonus offer from Craig Ballantyne at Turbulence Training. I would even by some of the bonus offers he is supplying with the purchase of TT.

Check out what he is offering:


If you don't own Turbulence Training this is the perfect time to make the purchase. If you have purchased Turbulence Training in the past you can get the above bonuses for free by going to the TT Membership area.

It doesn't matter what your age is, TT could be just right for you.

Since I'm not old yet, I'm going to take advantage of his offer.

Always look forward,
Jerry