Why You Can’t See Your Six-Pack

Why You Can’t See Your Six-Pack

June 28, 2010 |  by  |  Share  | 

Ever spent countless hours doing crunches, but never get the results you want? Ever buy the latest and greatest abdominator, absphere, or some other abfreakentacular device, but still didn’t get the results?  I’m sure you can feel the six-pack underneath all that skin and fat, but why doesn’t it show.  It doesn’t show because:

  • you’re not eating right
  • you’re not getting enough rest
  • you spend too much time working just one part of your body
  • you’re not doing the right amount of cardio
  • you’re neglecting other body parts
  • your cardio exercise choice doesn’t utilize all available muscle groups
  • your intensity is too low
  • you do the same exercise routine over and over … and over again

All this sums up to one thing. You can’t drop your body fat.  The one single thing you can do to have your six-pack show, is to reduce the body fat.

About the author

Andrei Petrik is a Personal Training Specialist (Can-Fit-Pro) and a Fitness writer based out of Toronto, Canada. Andrei utilizes HIIT, Circuit Training and other functional training methods to help his clients reach their fitness goals. When Andrei's not writing, working out, or whipping his clients into shape you can find him practicing his marketing chops as a digital marketer at blog.andreipetrik.com

 
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  • adamh

    So you tell us all the reasons why we’re not making progress but then you don’t give us any ways to reduce the body fat or make ourselves better. Seems counterintuitive.

  • http://www.getfitwithandrei.com Andrei

    Adam, thats a very valid point. And to cover all those points, I would need to go beyond a single blog post. It’s my plan to address all of them in future posts.

  • http://www.losingstomachfat.com Losing Stomach Fat

    I guess if you know Not what to do, the choices that remain are what you should be doing!

  • http://www.squidoo.com/effects-of-colloidal-silvers-to-human Effects of Colloidal Silvers

    It is a fact that there is really a small percentage of people that are eating the right foods. It is not a question of whether the food is healthy or not but the
    right question to ask is if the person has discipline to his or her self.

  • http://twitter.com/FreelanceKicker Freelance Kicker

    The focus of this post was to tell us why we can’t see our six-pack.  Andrei did that.  Now that you know… take bullet point 1 “you’re not eating right” and start Googling how to eat right.  Do the same for the other points and you’re golden.

    I hate to be sassy, but why don’t we add “spends too much time complaining instead of working to solve the problem” to your list.