Getting six pack abs can be a challenge. Many people spend hours a week on the treadmill yet have little to show for it. If that’s you, then these tips can help you turbocharge your workout, burn off that abdominal fat, and actually spend less time at the gym.

The number one mistake people make when doing aerobic exercise is working out at a steady state. Often, people start running on a treadmill or exercising on an elliptical trainer for 20-30 minutes. When they get no results, they simply crank up the difficulty level on the treadmill or they extend the length of their aerobic workout.

Yet if you work out at a constant pace, you will often find that even after going 60 minutes a day, 6 days a week, your abdominal fat just won’t burn off.

The problem is that when we exercise at a steady state, our bodies adjust to the level of difficulty, and any fat burning is minimized. In order to increase the rate of fat loss, you need to mix up your aerobic routine and continually keep your body guessing.

To do this, try interspersing periods of high intensity exercise with periods of lower intensity exercise. You can run (or work out on the the elliptical trainer) for 1 minute at a low intensity and then go all-out for 30 seconds. Repeat this cycle 5-7 times and include 5 minutes to warm up and 5 more minutes to cool down.

The whole routine should take you 20 minutes or less, and you really only need to do it for 2-3 days a week. As always, make sure you warm up properly beforehand, and check with your doctor before you start the program – especially if you have any history of heart problems.

In addition to this aerobic exercise, add resistance training (weight lifting) for an even bigger metabolic boost. I recommend looking into slow lifting. There is an excellent book on the subject titled The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution, by Frederick Hahn and Michael and Mary Dan Eades. In this book, they describe how you can work out for 30 minutes a week and see incredible results, both in terms of muscle gain and weight loss.

The combination of variable rate aerobic exercise and slow lifting can yield great results. You can burn fat faster than ever before, build muscle, get ripped abs, and look great – all while spending only a couple hours a week at the gym.

How do you make impressive changes to your body? You want to lose those extra pounds and get that sculpted, lean healthy 6 pack body. Many of you are probably thinking you have to spend endless hours on a treadmill or other cardio machine, right?

This isn’t necessary. Shorter durations of high intensity interval training also called HIIT produces faster more substantial results over long duration moderate intensity cardio workouts. Studies have shown that people doing high intensity interval training workouts have lost significantly more body fat compared to people doing low intensity long duration workouts. Fat burns quicker with high intensity training because you end up burning calories long after your work out is finished.

HIIT training is so effective because it revs up your metabolism which will cause your body to burn more calories. So if you want the fastest way to burn fat and speed up your results, start condensing your workouts using high intensity interval training instead of long, slow boring cardios like you’ve been told in the past.

Now that you have heard of these benefits and how it can positively effect you, try this with your next workout and see the improvements.

Here are 3 different examples of HIIT workouts….

Variation 1 – BASIC Warm-up for 3 to 5 minutes. (cycling, jump roping, treadmill etc.) Exercise to high intensity for 1 minute. Then exercise with low intensity for 1minute. Repeat 6 to 8 times. When finished cool down for 5 to 7 minutes

Variation 2 – The Build Up Warm-up for 3 to 5 minutes. (cycling, jump roping, treadmill etc.) Exercise with high intensity for 30 seconds then 1 minute of low intensity. Exercise with high intensity for 45 seconds then 1 minute of low intensity. Exercise with high intensity for 60 seconds then 1 minute of low intensity Exercise with high intensity fro 90 seconds then 1 minute of low intensity. Then Reverse the high intensity…. 60, 45, 30 When finished cool down for 5 to 7 minutes

Variation 3 – The Challenge Warm-up for 3 to 5 minutes. (cycling, jump roping, treadmill etc.) Exercise with high intensity for 2 minutes then 30 seconds with a even HIGHER intensity Followed by 2 minutes of low intensity. Repeat 3 to 6 times.

If your thinking this seems too difficult, remember you go at your OWN high level of intensity. Slow down a bit if you can’t make it through the intervals. You want to go at a pace where you can complete each interval without having to go crazy with them. Then as you get stronger increase YOUR intensity. Keep challenging yourself.

Here is an example… if you usually work out on a stationary bike at level 6 try taking your level up to level 9 during the high intensity interval and then take it down to a lower level during the low intensity interval.

Great success to you all!

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