Better Get Serious About These Ab Exercises

By Gerald Holt

I'm laid out here on the couch,very comfortably I might add; with a plate loaded with steaming angel hair pasta and gobs of yummy meat sauce cooked for hours with onions and green peppers and celery and beef----and the smell of it is soporific. I just love pasta, and when I have it with a homemade sauce like this that has simmered half the day, well; this is seventh heaven, bud---for sure. But, as I twirl my fork in the heavenly stuff, my conscience just won't leave me alone and it keeps jabbing me to tone it down with the pasta, and get back to doing my ab exercises. What a drag.

Okay----so my conscience has a point; I am getting flabby in the midsection and I could use some stronger core muscles to look better, and the best way to do that, is to work out with a good battery of ab exercises. I do have a trainer, and I have been trying to stick to a routine that will benefit me the most because, from what I understand, there is nothing like a killer set of 6pack abs to reel in the chicks. And that's not the only area that benefits from having strong core muscles; it also gives you better balance all over and helps with things like sports.

But all the girls seem to think that having a defined 6 pack in the abs area is a must, so I'm doing my darnedest to try and make something of those poor excuses for muscles that I have in that area. Ab exercises are a drag for the most part----I have a medicine ball and I roll around on that and use it to do curls with and some dumbbells that I use for exercises too----but I just can't get into it.

The fact that the ab exercises that I'm talking about have to be done without fail 3-5 times each week is a downer in and of itself because I have never been good with sticking to routines---to me, that's like living a regimented life, and I don't like that. I really need to have someone in my life that cares about me and how I look, and maybe then I would show a little more concern about my midriff and get down to brass tacks and start doing the exercises for real. But until that happens, my midsection is on its own.

Most of the ab exercises I've read about or come across at the gym, are designed to be done 3-5 times a week and on a pretty regular basis. That means you have to set up some kind of a routine so that you can stick to it and get yourself to the gym or to your exercise area at home, whatever; and do it without fail, week after week. Doesn't sound like much fun to me. Why do you have to dedicate so much time to exercising every week just to get fit.

Maybe something that will work is if I start traveling more with my friends that eat right and take care of themselves but don't go nuts over exercising and all that; because they look pretty good, seem to be in good shape, and they don't run to the gym every 5 minutes for ab exercises-----their lifestyle seems to work without all the sweating and grunting associated with exercising. That's an idea that might work.

I probably should go out and see if I can drum up a love interest and that would be enough to spark the desire to want to do ab exercises so I can finally get in shape and look like a million bucks for that special person in my life. That sounds like a plan---I need to think about that a little more and figure out just how I'm going to pull that off and where I should start looking. Meanwhile---I'm going to finish off this plate of pasta---it's starting to get cold. - 33373

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