sculpted abs

Going for that Greek statue look? Well let me tell you how to get there and it doesn’t start with sit-ups.

This is the first mistake that everyone who wants a good set of sculpted abs makes. You see that you cannot reduce the fat on your belly any more than you can on your chin. You should reduce your total body fat percentage to less than 10% if you are a man and 16% if you are a woman. Crunches just don’t burn enough calories to allow you to do this.

Now you need to understand that to lose a single pound of fat you need to burn 3500 calories. This is quite a lot when you consider that the average person doesn’t burn that many on an average day.

The second mistake everyone makes when working towards sculpted abs is spending all their time doing cardio to lose weight. Even if you run a few miles, you will only burn a few hundred calories and then the fat burning is done when you stop.

The best way to lose weight to get nice sculpted abs is to lift weights. Because muscle actually weighs more than fat, lifting weights will make your body work harder even after your workout and you’ll lose more fat even while you sleep.

The best exercises to lose weight and sculpt a beautiful set of dumbbell abs are renegade rows, dumbbell swings. But, if you use kettlebells, there are actually hundreds of exercises that will beautifully sculpt your abs.