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Abdominal Training in High Intensity Training

Abdominal training, why does Kevin not do abdominals?

And how does Kevin’s abs look the way they do even though he doesn’t train them?

Hold on, there’s more.

This is what my abs look like now as I’m about to turn 50 years old, with 30 years of no abdominal training, no crunches, no leg raises, no sits, nothing, nada.

Just high intensity weight training, which in and of itself is a little bit unconventional because all I do is something called Naturally Intense High Intensity Training, which involves really intense workouts that are very, very short, lasting anywhere from 10, 15 to maximum 20 minutes and only three times a week.

And I don’t do any cardio whatsoever, only high intensity weight training.

Now you might think that Kevin just has exceptional genetics to allow him to have really great abs no matter what, and that’s not it at all.

In this video, I’m going to talk exactly about the reason why my abs look the way they do and ensure that anyone, you included, can build really strong abdominal muscles and a fantastic looking six pack without doing any exercises after a certain point.

And put to bed the idea of genetics, because every single person who has done exactly what I have done is able to have absolutely fantastic looking abdominals even though they don’t train abs regularly.

Stay tuned, I’ll talk a little more about this.

So in this video we’re talking about abdominal training, namely the fact that I don’t do any abdominal training and haven’t done any abdominal training since somewhere in the 1990s.

But before I go any further, I’d like to take the time to thank everyone for all the tremendous support, especially those who should like a one stop place for anyone who’s training naturally without steroids or supplements.

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So let’s go straight into it, ’cause I know you’re a little bit curious about this one.

It’s Diet Not Training That Gives You Six Pack Abs

It’s my diet.

It’s nothing more than my diet.

Now, my high intensity weight training does create a lot of fat loss.

But at the same time, even though it does help you lose fat, in order to get your body fat down to those lower percentage points, the only way you’re going to do that is if your diet is on point.

When it comes to a six pack, here’s the thing as well, everyone already has a six pack, you just can’t always see it.

And the analogy I always use is this, imagine an underwater mountain range.

It’s a mountain range with all these mountains, but it’s underwater. And then one day the water drains out, you can see those mountains prominently.

The same applies to a six pack. That water in the analogy is body fat.

You have body fat over these ridges of muscles that are already there.

You get rid of the body fat and those ridges become visible.

But that’s a factor of reducing body fat, which has nothing to do with a crunch or a leg raise or any abdominal exercise.

You can’t spot reduce them, and those exercises don’t do anything to actually make the fat in that area go away, that’s all diet.

But what very often happens is that many people have a bit of a cognitive dissonance, they kind of know that they’re not eating properly, they kind of know they’re not doing everything they should in terms of getting their body fat out from their diet, but it makes them feel good to go out there and do tons of ab work because then they feel like it did something.

That’s just not how it works.

Now, it’s not genetic, it’s not some magical ability that I have to not have body fat in my abdominal area because there actually are people, and I have had clients over the years who had a significant amount of body fat but had a six pack, which is simply a matter that genetically some people have fat distributions that allow them to have a very lean midsection.

That’s not the case with me.

How Unprocessed Foods Help You Maintain a Six Pack

When I blew up to 252 pounds when I first came to America, you couldn’t really see my abs at that point.

I was experimenting with the whole idea of drinking protein shakes and doing the bulking up thing.

But my current diet, and the reason why my abs look the way they look, is because I eat a diet of completely unprocessed foods.

I have an absolutely uncompromising diet whereby I simply won’t eat anything that’s processed.

As far as what I drink, all I drink is water.

There’s no liquid calories whatsoever.

And that might sound a little bit on the extreme side for some people, but here’s the deal.

If that’s the way you’re eating, your body fat levels are always going to be on the lower side. because if you’re consuming only real natural food that’s high in fiber, there’s only so much you can eat.

I love Japanese sweet potatoes, but how many of them can I eat?

I love chicken breasts, but how many can I eat?

And anybody who knows me knows I love oat bran cereal, but again, how much can you eat?

So you’re always eating exactly what you need and you’re never going over your daily caloric intake.

And if you do that, your body fat level is going to drop to a point where your abdominals are going to be visible all the time.

Which is why hunter gatherer populations or any indigenous peoples who tend to live very close to the land, tend to have exceptionally low body fat levels.

And interestingly enough, a lot of them tend to have six packs, even though they never did a crunch or ever did a leg raise.

Now, it’s important to note that I’m not saying that you should not be doing abdominal exercises.

No way. That’s not the purpose of this video at all.

The reason why I’m making this video is ’cause people want to understand a little bit about the reason why I don’t do any abdominal exercises and why for some of the people who I train, I recommend that they don’t do it either.

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