Exercises for Abs : Muscle Building, Fat Burning Routines

Have you ever started regularly exercising only to become bored and disheartened after a few short months or even weeks ?  Here you will discover some excellent ways of introducing variety to your workouts whilst still building muscle and shedding that unwanted body fat.

Variety is the spice of life, and your exercise routines are no different.  If you introduce elements of variety into your schedule, you are a lot less likely to become bored and give up.

Many people tend to be enthusiastic when they start exercising, but after a few months they become bored with doing the same old cardio routines over and over again, or they get disillusioned because their progress comes to a grinding halt.

Exercise need never be boring and trying different routines will help to stop the boredom setting in.  Importantly variety will also help to prevent your body from becoming too accustomed to your workout regime.  Its this that causes your physical progress to falter.

So why not incorporate the following into your routines.

• Wind Sprints - Find any open space that you can use to run (park, field etc) and try sprinting as fast as you can over distances of 50, 75 and 100 yards.  After each sprint, rest long enough to get your breath back and then go again.  Try repeating between 10 and 20 times for a great allover body workout.
• Hill Sprints - If you can find a suitable hill then do as with wind sprints, by sprinting up the hill as quickly as you can and then walk down whilst recovering.

These sprint workouts really are an effective method for working on your whole body.  Sprinting works the biggest muscle groups hard, it will increase your metabolic rate, stimulate your muscle building hormones and encourage fat burning.  Just take a look at the physical build of the top 100 meter runners and see how lean and muscle bound they are.

If you don’t like running, then why not try sprint swimming.  Swimming is really effective at giving your body a complete workout that stresses the joints and muscles in a whole different way to most resistance training.  Including swimming in your training program will greatly compliment your other workouts.

Sprint swimming is the best way to go, as it will encourage muscle growth more than endurance or long distance swimming.

Swim as hard as you can for 25 or 50 meters, then rest enough to catch your breath.  Repeat this 10 to 20 times.  With sprint swimming try and keep your recovery periods to a minimum.  You can add variety to your sprint swimming by alternating strokes.

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