How to Get Flat Abs

If you want to get flat abs in time to show them off at the beach this year, quit wasting your efforts on slow, boring cardio and endless crunches. That didn’t work last year, or the year before, and it’s certainly not going to work this time either.

Instead, here’s what you need to do:

1. Cut all refined carbohydrates and grains from your diet. That means nothing from a bag or a box. Get all your carbs from fruits, vegetables, and the small amount found in nuts.
2. Replace slow cardio with belly-fat-burning cardio. According to research from Australia, 20-minute interval training workouts are more effective for burning belly fat than slow 40-minute cardio sessions. (In fact, the slow cardio sessions in this study didn’t result in any belly fat loss at all - and the study lasted 15 weeks!)
3. Skip the crunches. Focus your resistance training program on total-body exercises. This means push-ups, dumbbell rows, lunges, and squats. And if you have a little extra time, you can train your abdominals twice per week for 10 minutes. That’s all it takes.

[Ed. Note: Fitness expert Craig Ballantyne is the creator of the Turbulence Training for Fat Loss system. For a free online source of information, motivation, and social support to help you improve your health, lose weight, and get fit, sign up for ETR’s free natural health e-letter.]