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With all of the different workout plans that are available, it becomes nigh on imposssible to choose which one will be the best one to follow when trying to get your abs into a ripped 6 pack. After all with all this information it can be hard to work out exactly where to get started and what is in fact the best way to work your abs.

What you need to do when you start working out your core muscles, is remember that all routines will work for you to a certain degree whatever you choose to be going for high reps and light weights or heavy weights and low reps, using a stability ball, whatever, these will all work at least until your body becomes conditioned to it, then it needs to be challenged again in a different way to keep the progress going.

Ideally when working out your abs, you want to start with using your own body weight in a stable way and then ramp it up to using weights on an unstable surface. If you do this then you will find results improve because when you are on an unstable base, this forces all of your core muscles to work, especially the really deep ones that do not get called in to play much when you are using a stable basewill cause even the deepest of your core muscles, which generally do not get called in to play much, to work.

If you are uncertain of what I mean by stable base floor work I am on about doing exercises such as sit ups and crunches etc… on the floor. Then to make it unstable you would progress to doing these exercises on something unstable such as a gym ball and then make it more intense by adding weight into the mix too.

Now to get the ripped six pack look you are going to need to do a weighted movements, after all you can have a flat belly without the abs showing and although you look nice and slim, however, that is not really what we are trying to achieve. The reason we need weights here is because we will be targeting the actual abdominal muscle itself and the best way to do this is with exercises such as weighted ab crunches on a machine or getting on a stability ball with a dumbbell. It is important during your ab exercises to make sure you are crunching your upper abs onto your lower abs during each rep. This is needed in order to really max the burn and fully develop the core muscle.

Although there are ab workouts out there for the lower abs and the upper abs, but in reality, you should just treat them as one muscle and training them together whenever you do your stomach exercises. The thinking behind this is that you cannot completely seperate upper and lower, so it makes sense to concentrate on them as one. Of course, if you feel that you do want to try and exercise them seperately, then exercises such as leg raises will do the trick. And again with leg raises, just like crunches, you can progress from unweighted and stable to weighted and unstable

One of the key areas in all of your workout plans and not just ab workouts is how often to train them, after all you may well know the body works best when it is fully recovered from the previous workout. As a rule of thumb train them as often as you can as long as they are recovered.If you are finding you are not making any gains, then you need to start resting more as you may be overtraining.

The last point on this subject is that your abs are under a layer of fat, so in order to make sure you get a razor sharp six pack, as well as the weighted exercises, you need to ensure that you have cardio in your plan and that you watch your calorie intake too.

Also do not forget to consult with your physician before undertaking any exercise regime