"the best" stomach muscle exersizes?

**Nihilanthic** · Posted On: 5/27/2003 7:09pm

use resistance to do crunches, and lose fat.

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**PizDoff** · Posted On: 5/27/2003 7:13pm

what Wastrel said
but sit ups have uses but are limited

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**The Wastrel** · Posted On: 5/27/2003 7:27pm

No reason to do sit-ups.

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**Pandinha** · Posted On: 5/27/2003 8:23pm

Has anyone mentioned Sex yet?

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**Phrost** · Posted On: 5/27/2003 8:31pm

The first thing you need to do to achieve tone is to burn fat. In order to do that effectively, you need to reach a state of what I believe is called Ketosis.

This is done by lowering your caloric intake to the point where exercise starts to burn fat.

You CANNOT, and I must stress again, CANNOT get a six pack without eating a proper diet, unless you're one of the crack-babies with the metabolism of a garbage disposal, or a teenager.

In order to do this, you need to focus on regulating your insulin output. Insulin tells your body to store a portion of the food you eat as fat. It's a survival mechanism that goes back to the days when people only ate every few days or so. Meaning, if you eat few, large meals, you'll be storing a lot of fat because you put your body into survival mode.

On the other hand, if you eat several small, spaced out meals, your body will never be hungry, and you'll never trigger the insulin to force the fat storage.

This takes a LOT of effort and commitment, but once you get in the swing of it, it will fit into your lifestyle pretty well. Not only will this keep you lean, but a lean body is a healthy body and you'll be much less disease prone. Heck, until pretty recently I ate like crap. If I can get into this, anyone can.

As far as the actual training part (which really comes after you've gotten a handle on the stuff above), I think it's been covered pretty well.

I hate running. I fucking HATE it. 7 years of it, 5 days a week, on pavement almost destroyed my knees.

There are alternatives. I like Eliptical machines. And if you really feel like running, I'd suggest running Fartlek style, alternating jogging with full out sprinting. It will condition you better for a fight than a slow, long jog ever will.

But truthfully, the best conditioning for grappling is grappling. Do it as often as you can, get plenty of rest (8 hrs a night or more), and toss in some good strength training, and you'll be on track.

**Phrost** · Posted On: 5/27/2003 8:33pm

By the way, what do you guys think about a physical training section?

**Pandinha** · Posted On: 5/27/2003 8:40pm

I'm all for it Phrost.

To show how much....

Anthony's handy dandy gut excercises. This was part of a pamphlet given to me by my Seal recruiters before I joined the Navy, to do for the months I was waiting to go to NRD Orlando.

Excercises used:
1. Leg Lifts
2. Crunches

Tempo: Must use the counts One thousand, two thousand, three thousand... All positive movements are 2 seconds, all negatives 1 second.

For instances, if you do leg lifts...
Legs going up is a 2 count, coming down 1 count.

The excercises
Leg lifts: Hands must be under butt, head is off the ground looking towards your feet.
Beginning position is 6 inches off the ground, up position is 12 to 14 inches off the ground.

Crunches: Arms can be on your chest crossed, on your head by your ears, or as The Wastrel said earlier, extended (this really hurts).

Now, the drill...

Do 30 Leg Lifts
Rest 30 seconds
Do 30 Crunches
Rest 1 minute
Do 40 Leg Lifts
Rest 30 seconds
Do 40 Crunches
Rest 30 seconds

If your gut is not burning after that, then increase the numbers, till you can do 200 of each easily.

I really doubt it. Prove me wrong studboys and studettes!

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**Pandinha** · Posted On: 5/27/2003 8:41pm

Btw, when you can do 200 easy, we go to the next program.

I am so amped about writing it all down, I'm gonna get on track myself!

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"When we go to the ground, you are in my world. The ground is the ocean, I am the shark, and most people don't even know how to swim." RCJ Machado

**Phrost** · Posted On: 5/27/2003 8:57pm

K, I'll have to set one up, as soon as I get up the 1 year anniversary stuff and the final Bullshido Award announcements.

**FingerorMoon?** · Posted On: 5/27/2003 9:13pm

Go to most bodbuilding forums and you can go on about metabolic rates, insulin, survival mode, fat storage, bla bla bla, bla bla bla

Once again people, eating is not difficult.
Cut out saturated fat and cut out refined sugar.

Stick to this:
if something does not look the way it does when it was taken out of the ground/sea (or off the tree), it is not worth your time to eat it.
(steak, beef, etc may not look like cow - you know what I mean - don't be a smart ass :) )

It is good to be in the habit of eating many small meals a day. This can help. It is not imperative. You can eat 3 healthy larger meals a day and as long as you are following the above rules, it WILL make a massive difference to the way you look.

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