How To Get a Six Pack in a Month - The Truth Is, It Will Take You A Lot Longer

By Matt Bournston

Okay, so you want to know how to get a six pack in a month. Is it really possible to get your abdominals that toned so quickly? The thing about six pack abs is that everyone seems to want them but so few people are actually willing to do what it takes to get them. The thing is everyone has abdominal muscles, but for most of us they are covered by a layer of fat. The truth is your abs won't show unless your body fat is less that 10% (15% for women).

So, the approach you need to take towards getting rid of belly fat is to think in terms of reducing your body's oevrall fat percentage. But in order to do this, you first need to know what your body fat percentage is at the moment. You can have a personal trainer or doctor measure this for you, or you can get a body composition monitor.

Once you know what your percentage is, you then need to calculate how much weight you need to lose to get yourself down to the ideal body fat level.

As an example, let's use 200 pounds as your current body weight, and 20% as your current body fat percentage. If you wanted to get down to 9% body fat, you would do the following calculation:

* 0.2 (20%) minus 0.09 (9%) = 0.11

* Plus 1 = 1.11

* 200 divided by 1.11 = 180 pounds (your new body weight goal)

So, in order to lose that amount of body fat, you will need to reduce your overall body weight by 20 pounds. However, there is one key thing you must keep in mind: This must be done slowly, for example over 20 or more weeks, with good nutrition and good exercises. If you try to do it any faster than that, you will only mess up your metabolism, which will cause you more weight problems in the long-term. - 29951

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