The essential diet and fitness guide to lean, ripped abs-including a results-driven 4-week program to lose weight, strengthen your core, and chisel your entire body
Call it a spare tire, muffin top, or paunch. Men and women consistently cite their belly as their biggest problem area-and it is often the toughest final pounds to lose. Not anymore!
Whether readers' eating habits have been affected by stress, their bodies have changed with age, or they're constantly doing crunches without results, it's time to blast belly fat the right way. Using the comprehensive, week-by-week eating and exercise plan, readers can lose up to 20 pounds in 6 weeks-and keep it off, forever.
The Men's Health Big Getting Abs special features
- Quick effective routines that replace boring, painful crunches - Manly (and healthy) recipes that take less than 15 minutes to prepare! - Hundreds of tips on how to emphasize muscle definition and six-pack abs!
Including a step-by-step, 4-week eating and exercise plan, easy-to-prepare recipes, and hundreds of exercises, The Men's Health Big Book of Abs by Adam Bornstein and the editors of Men's Health is the ultimate guide to a leaner, fitter, sexier body.
Don't actually expect to see jaw-dropping results in a matter of weeks, but this is a pleasantly comprehensive, manageable workout plan. I'm three weeks into the day-by-day schedule, and have yet to feel bored or overwhelmed to the point of skipping a day. Workout circuits/sequences are clearly displayed in the concise 4-or-6-week plan chapter, and the latter half of the book is mostly dedicated to breakdowns of individual exercises with handy image sets and blurb instructions. Posture is a big focal point, and even a few days into the regimen, I felt so much more productively aware of my alignment.
The specific day-by-day diet schedule is more of a perspective-enhancing exemplar of various ways to achieve nutritional balance than a crucial strategy, featuring a handful of fun recipe inspirations. There's a repeated emphasis on sticking to a diet tailored to individual habits, timeframes, and cravings. This lenience makes adhering to the workout plan all the easier, which in turn motivates me to honor the regular exercise by eating properly to build more lean muscle. A great feedback loop!