The Secret To Six Pack Abs

Determining how many pounds of fat you need to lose to see your six pack abs.

In the previous section I discussed why it is important for you to know what your current body fat percentage is in order for you to understand what stands between how you look now and a well defined mid section. Once you have determined how many pounds of fat you need to lose to achieve your goal you can easily predict approximately how long it will take for you to achieve it.

But before we go into that let's watch a short video to get clear on what we are trying to achieve:

Understand this! In life, especially when it comes to your body, everything on the outside is a direct reflection of how you see it on the inside. To succeed in developing six pack abs you must first imagine yourself clearly as having them. But more on that later. For now, lets review the steps to determine how many pounds of fat you need to lose to achieve the ideal body fat percentage for six pack abs.

So here are the steps:

Now that you know what your current body fat percentage is, you take it and subtract your goal body fat percentage from it and then perform some additional calculations. As an example we will use 9 percent as a goal body fat percentage. Remember for most people six pack abs don't even start becoming visible unless your body fat is less than 10% for men and 15% for women, and at those percentages, the truth is they are barely visible. The body fat percentages of the fitness models whose abs we all envy are in the less than 5% range. But for the purpose of this example we will use 9 percent as our goal and 20 percent as our current body fat percentage. And we will use 200 pounds as our current weight. So here is the math.

First convert the percentages to decimal values.

20% = .20 and 9% = .09

Then subtract

.20 - .09 = .11

Then add 1

.11 + 1 = 1.11 Then divide that into your current body weight which will then give you your goal weight:

200 / 1.11 = 180

Subtract your goal weight from your current weight to find out how many pounds of fat you need to lose to arrive at your goal body fat percentage.

200-180 = 20

So to be at 9% body fat we need to lose 20 pounds of fat.

I'm not lying to you when I say that to lose 20 pounds of fat without losing any muscle will take approximately 20 - 22 weeks with a combination of diet and exercise. If you lose the weight any faster you will end up losing lots of muscle in the process which will mess up your metabolism. For every 10 pounds of muscle that you lose your metabolism will suffer by about 400 calories. What this means is that you will have to add 400 calories worth of activity (running, walking, etc) just to maintain your current weight. Losing muscle during the dieting process is the number one reason why people get fatter when they stop their diet and go back to their old eating habits. By losing only 1 -2 pounds a week and maintaining an intense strength conditioning program, your body will maintain its muscle and turn to fat as an energy source. This is why patience is so important to the process and why I recommend you start a practice of daily meditation. Meditation will help you to lose the - got to have it now mentality - and allow you to develop the patience necessary to stay with the process long enough to be successful. Next to your diet and weight training routine, the next single most important step is the process of visualization. You absolutely, positively, need to burn the image of you sporting a set of six packs deep into your subconcious mind. By doing so you will reprogram you mind so that it automatically takes the necessary actions to achieve the goal. If you're a man, take another look at the video up top. You must see yourself like that. Trust me on this. If you leave this step out, you will not achieve your goal.

Six Pack Abs Diet

If you want to succeed in developing six pack abs and even more importantly if you want to be able to maintain them once you achieve them, you need a diet plan that you can follow long term. Many of the so called six pack abs diets call for a low-carb approach which to me is just unsustainable. When you are on a low-carb diet you are miserable. The reason is the human body wants to get it's energy from carbs. You can eat a diet that has plenty of carbs and still achieve and maintain six pack abs. Look at my picture. I am able to maintain my body fat percentage at between 6 and 8 percent year round. I eat plenty of carbs, as a matter of fact I eat mostly carbs. I've experimented with every diet there is and I've learned from first hand experience what works and what doesn't. And I can tell you this emphatically: Carbs don't matter! Calories do. I've designed a diet and weight loss program that will allow you to achieve your goals and which will help you to get and stay healthy. My program is based on a balanced diet, every food is chosen for it's excellent nutritional profile of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. I call it the magnetic diet because just like a magnet it helps to attract to you the body, the health, and the energy that you want to have.

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