Ok, here’s a short guide on how to get ripped quick. With or without ab exercise equipment. 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.

The most important foods that you should cut out are refined sugars and starches. 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. You want to switch to shorter, more intense workouts. Not only are they more effective at speeding up your metabolism, but they’re also more fun, easier to fit into your busy schedule and easier to stick to. Examples include:

Rope Jumping
Short Sprints
Sprinting uphill
Climbing stairs
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.

One of the benefits of interval training is that is strengthens the cardiovascular system while reducing the risk of repetitive strain injuries so common in slow cardio exercises.

Bottom line, quick, high intensity exercises are much better at burning calories than those boring slow cardio routines. One of the magic types of exercises you can do to get ripped quick is interval training.

Don’t over train, however. All you’ll achieve is to hold back your body’s recovery process, which will not get you the results you want. When over training it is easy to do yourself an injury, which can put you out of action for weeks. Exercise about 3, maximum 4 times a week, and listen to your body.

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

Focus on full body exercises instead of exercises that only isolate the abs. You should spend the bulk of your exercise time on these. I’m talking about pushups, pullups, squats, lunges, mountain climbers, static jumps. These are specifically exercises that don’t even require any ab exercise equipment, gym equipment or weights.

To get ripped quick you need to engage your entire body. It’s important to include exercises that isolates and targets your abs, for example jack knives, reverse crunches and suspended leg lifts, but these shouldn’t be all you do. Get your whole body working and you’ll burn fat much more effectively.

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

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