Starting a lower ab workout can be hard.  Staying with the program can be even harder, especially in the early days when it feels so tiring and you can’t see any results.  Today I want to show you how to get over these obstacles, how to get into the habit of doing those lower ab exercises, and how to get a six pack you will be proud of.

teenage guy with an amazing six pack. Photo courtesy of picasaweb.google.com/brianteaguereynolds9

The first thing you need to do is get everything in place so that when the time comes to do your workout routine, you can literally just get down on the floor and do it.  What will you wear?  Put that pair of shorts and that tee shirt on one side now, in a place where you can just grab them and change into them quickly.  Where will you do your exercises?  Try a few places around the house to find out where you have enough room to stretch out in comfort and without interruption.  Again, do this before you come to the time for your first workout.  Do you need an exercise mat to make your comfortable?  If you do, go out and buy one.  All this sounds obvious, but if you waste valuable minutes looking for a pair of shorts to wear or going round the house looking for a place where you can lie down, or if when you lie down the floor feels cold and hard, it might just give you the excuse you have been looking for to put off that lower ab workout for another day.

The next thing to consider is your abdominal exercise regime itself.  Decide what mix of exercises you will do.  Whether it’s reverse crunches, hanging leg raises, alternating leg walks, scissors or bicycle crunches – you need to decide what you will do, how many repetitions and sets, and in what order.  Write it down on a little piece of paper and keep this list in the place where you will do your exercises.  Don’t be too ambitious either – start small, with baby steps, because it’s important in the early days that you have a routine you can finish.  Later, once you are in the habit of doing your exercises, you can vary things, which will actually help you get a six pack faster, but in the early days it’s more important to stick to a habit-forming routine.

Talking of habit-forming, I want to mention a few words on the power of habit.  The mind is a powerful thing, and you can train your mind as well as your body.  It’s a strange but widely accepted fact that if you do the same thing at the same time every day for about 40 days, your mind will expect you to keep on doing that thing.  Once the habit has been formed, the mind will refrain from tempting you away to watch TV or have a beer – because you have trained your mind to accept that your lower ab workout is what you do at this time every day, come what may.  Take 40 days to build this habit by doing your routine every single day, without fail, and you will find that doing your exercises becomes part of your life and feels easier to do.  Then, even if you miss a day later on for whatever reason, you won’t give up because your mind will be screaming at you to continue – you will have the habit!

If you enjoyed this post and are ready to get the habit, my advice is to strike while the iron’s hot and take action and start that lower ab workout program today -  right now – and get on the road to your six pack.

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