3 Tips to Help You Get Ripped Abs Quick

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I guess you want to get ripped quick. whether you use ab exercise equipment or not. Maybe summer is coming and you want to look really good in those swimming trunks or bikini.

Bad news...you will not achieve a ripped body in a day or two. Good news...it can be done in a realistic time frame, which will of course depend on your current condition.

Get Ripped Quick - Super Tip 1: Sorting out your diet

First of all you need to sort out your diet. To avoid losing muscle mass and also slowing your metabolism, be careful not to reduce your calorie intake too much.

Ideally you want to strike a good balance between your intake of fat, carbohydrates and also protein.

Refined sugars and starches are some of the most important foods to avoid in your diet. On the flip side you'd want to make sure you take in plenty of whole, natural, unprocessed foods like vegetables, organic meat, nuts, fruit and eggs.

Super Tip 2: The best cardio exercises you should be doing?

Forget about doing endless long cardio in your ab exercise routine. It is recommended to engage in workouts that take less time while being more intense. Apart from being great at speeding up your metabolism, these are also simple to do, more fun and they should fit into any daily schedule with ease. Examples include:

Rope Jumping
Short Sprints
Sprinting uphill
Stair Climbing
Interval Training
Waist High Roundhouse Kicks on a Punch Bag

If you don't know, interval training is quite simply where periods of intense exercise are mixed with periods of less intense exercise, or recovery. Here's an example: you run a sprint uphill, then walk back down to break up the intensity.

Interval training improves the performance of the cardiovascular system and also helps remove the risk of strain injuries that can occur during repetitive endurance exercises.

Quite simply, you burn more calories during short, high intensity exercises than with long, slow cardio exercises. If you want to get ripped quick, interval training is the way to go.

Take care not to overdo it though. You will inhibit your body's recovery and get exactly the opposite results of what you want. An injury caused by over training can also put you out of action for a long time, and there's no need for me to explain what that means. You only need to exercise about 3 - 4 times per week.

Super Tip 3: What are the best abdominal exercises to do?

Instead of just focusing on exercises that isolate the abs, you'll want to put a priority on full body exercises. You should spend the bulk of your exercise time on these. I'm talking about pushups, pullups, squats, lunges, mountain climbers, static jumps. We have chosen these exercises because they do not require any ab exercise equipment of access to a gym.

To get ripped quick you need to engage your entire body. You definitely should make ab targeting exercises part of your routine, but they shouldn't make up your entire routine. Make your whole body work - that way you'll melt the fat off much faster.

Next, I share more of the best abdominal exercises, full ab exercise routines and a ton of useful information at http://www.bestabdominalexercises.com