How to get abs is a life style choice when it comes down to it, it's not easy to do if you are not focused and comitted to being lean, fit and health everyday all day. If you want to get great abs fast or at least a flat stomach, then you need to focus on a few things daily.

1. Diet

2. Cardio

3. Resistance Training

Diet:

In you diet you will want to keep it balanced with a combination of carbohydrates, essential fats, lean proteins, vitamins and minerals for each meal. Eat about 5-6 times a day a make your meals small to medium size, rather than 3 large meals during the day. Also, reduce junk food and candy or try to eliminate it completely from your diet. Don't drink alcohol or smoke. Some of these things are very difficult to stop especially if you are used to drinking, smoking, and not eating well, it can be a major life-style change that most people are not willing to do, but if you really want to get abs you'll make the sacrifices, and in return you will look and feel your best!!

Cardio:

If you have extra weight and fat on your body and core area, you will need to focus on you cardio, because it's possible under that layer of fat you have abs, but no matter how many crunches and sit-ups you do you won't see them until you shed the extra fat off them, and to do this it takes a consistence effort of cardiovascular training. So you can run, jog, walk, and stay active as much as possible everyday. I prefer to do actives and sports that I enjoy, like riding my bike, dancing, going for a walk or playing basketball on a regular basis to get my cardio exercise to stay lean and strengthen my heart and lungs too. Avoiding your cardio can have many side effects besides gaining more fat on your core so get up and get active if you are not already. Also, if you are eating more than usual you'll need to do more cardio, so stick to your diet as mention above with combination of cardio and you are off to a great start, but we are not finished yet please keep reading.

Resistance Training:

The abs and core are muscles and they support your spine and protect your internal organs, and give you good posture which will help with your breathing and will help you increase you activity, energy, fitness, and strength levels dramatically because all movements and lifts and exercises involve your core and abs. You need to make sure you are doing crunches, sit-ups, etc.. for your abs and core, also when exercising stand while lifting weights rather than sitting to increase core and ab strength. The more you strengthen and work you abs and core the more calories that will be burnt off you midsection around the clock. With combination with a good diet and cardio exercise you will quickly begin to see your stomach get smaller and tighter and your abs will come through.

Summary

Now you have the basic formula to get abs. Your diet, cardio, and resistance training, and remember it's a lifestyle choice, so you'll have to make tough decisions at times, like if you will each desert after a meal and if you will go out drinking with your friends. You need to really want to change to see the benefits and it's definitely worth it, because you will look and feel you best and many positive changes will happen in you life. Clothes will look better on you, you can go to the beach and not be shy, you will attract more people to you and you will reduce many health issues too, so overall it's a very healthy choice to make and go after.

Good luck with you goals of achieving your dream abs.

If you are looking to have powerful, sexy abs, then you have come to the right place for that information. To achieve a six pack or flat stomach you will have to do more than just crunches. You will have to do cardio exercises involving your core, like running, skipping, playing a sport, or something of your choice. And you will have to eat a healthy diet.

Here are some great tips to achieve a strong powerful sexy core to help you with all your other exercises too. You will be able to jump higher, run faster, lift more weight in all your exercises, and on top of that you will look and feel great.

Abdominal Tips:

1. When doing and abdominal exercise you must focus on crunching the abs together. So concentrate on moving your belly button in a line towards chest bone. You will feel a tight squeeze in your abs, but be careful at first, as you can put the muscle into spasm if you aren't used to it. This is how the abdominals work they crunch, not curl like a traditional sit-up.

2. Take deep breathes and drink cold water in between exercises to help reduce lactic acid build up, and to increase energy.

Abdominal Exercises and Tips:


Dynamic Core Stretch:

Stand up straight with your arms above your head go on your toes and reach up and then lean back sticking your pelvis out you will feel your lower abs tighten. Now come back forward with your arms still over your head and lean forward with your hips without bending your back. Try twisting your body around, but keep your body erect and stretched out, not slouching.

Hanging Leg raises:

This is an advanced exercise that involves more than just the abs, but is a great compound exercise that helps connect the abs with the hip flexors, which is useful for running, kicking, and jumping. So basically hang from a bar, if this is to hard, then use the leg raise stand. Now lift using your hips and pelvis first than lift you legs up, touch the bar if you can. And remember to crunch your abs.

Scissor Crunches:

This is a great total abdominal exercise that will target the entire abs, including the oblique muscles if you put a twist in it, just like with most core exercises. OK, for this one lie on the floor on your back with your legs stretched out and your arms stretched behind your head. Now raise your legs and arms at the same time, bring them up and towards each other as close as you can while focusing on crunching the abs together. For more power, raise you legs and arms together as fast as possible into a crunch position, then lower your legs and arms with control as soon as they are an inch off the ground power them back up, continue until your most powerful rep then stop and rest.

The Bridge/Plank:

Something that most people don't know is that the abs are more than what you see on the outside, for example a 6 or 8 pack abs. There is also an entire abdominal wall that can be argued is more important to strength than the visual abs. The reason for this is because the interior core protects your vital organs for impact damage. This is why know matter the look of your abs, like a boxer for example, if he/she gets hit hard enough in the mid-section they will bleed from the mouth and/or cause serious internal organ damage, bottom line it's nasty. So to help protect your insides more, add this to your core routine. And you can do this from different angles, reverse (chest facing up) and on the side too.

Here's how it works:

Go into a push-up position on the floor; now bend your arms one at a time onto your forearms, after a few seconds you should start to feel you abs tighten to support your body, this is actually strengthening the inner core, try to hold it for at least 30-60 seconds, or work you way up to that. For more of a challenge move your arms further in front of you increasing the stretch in your abs, and back and more resistance. Good Luck!!