P.O.R.N. Diets

I am coining this term as I feel some of the diets out there are so radical they need to be discussed in one place.

We here from our favorite celebrities daily and some of us live for this. We follow them on Twitter, talk about them on Bebo and MySpace or e mail each other about them especially when a new diet is talked about.

There have been some over the top radical diets in the past like the 'Air diet', not a very popular one for obvious reasons unlike the 'Chocolate' diet. Then there is the more main stream 'Atkins' diet or 'The Dash Diet' or even 'The South Beach Diet'. All have there plus and minus points and their advocates and nay sayers as well.

The trick when it comes to diets if there is a trick in selecting one would be to thoroughly research the topic. The mere fact that there literally are thousands of diets commercially available shown on television, billboards or even your local Chemist shop.

Here will be many, many articles pertaining to the topic of P.O.R.N. Diets circulating our media and your opinion on them is most welcome. Maybe you have been on one and would like to praise it or maybe warn others away from it. Whatever you may like to share, diet related, please do.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Personal Trainer from Langhorne Explains How Lower Ab Exercises Can Be Misleading

By Jose Loni

Is it possible to get six pack abs by doing lower ab exercises? The answer is no. Doing lower ab exercises will not get you six pack abs. To get well-defined abs, we need to focus on increasing our metabolism through our diet and increasing our exercise program.

Localized lower ab exercises will just not do it. Doing them can help our abdominal, hip and back muscles get stronger to support our body's movements, but they will not help give us six pack abs.

Working the problem area in isolation is not effective and cannot burn localized fat. Instead, overall physical activity is required to get our whole body to use up excess fat.

To get well-defined abs, we need to increase our metabolism. Through our diet, we need to make sure we eat quality foods that our body can easily burn. When our body is able to burn the food we eat, it will then burn the excess fat that we have for further energy production.

Another way of keeping our metabolism raised throughout the day is by eating 5 to 6 small meals a day. This ensures maintenance of blood sugar and energy levels, as well as lowering caloric intake and, therefore, less fat is stored.

Engaging in overall physical activity is a great metabolism booster. Our muscles are positively affected by resistance training, in particular, causing them to work harder and consume more energy. As a result, our body gets more efficient at locating and using up excess fat as fuel.

Our muscles can also be trained in an anaerobic way through interval training, resulting in highly reactive and explosive muscles. Muscles like these consume even more fuel because of their high metabolic rate with the very welcome ability of getting our body to keep burning excess fat hours after training.

Doing lower ab exercises in isolation is simply not the answer to getting toned and visible abs. However, having a smart eating plan and regular physical activity can boost metabolism and send us on our way to achieving six pack abs.

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