Getting ripped abs is every man's dream, that's why so many business owner trying to offer "quick fix" for that, namely supplements, abs gadget, fitness machines, and books with hundreds of abs exercise variations. If you've been trying to get your six pack abs shown for a while, maybe you've tested some of those 'quick fix' method and I'm pretty sure the result is far from the one promised in their advertisement.

Why they did not work? Because all of them have one thing in common: they focus heavily to train your abs. That might seem reasonable, but here’s the facts: abs exercises are NOT the solution to gain hard six pack abs. In fact, abs exercises are the least important aspect in gaining six pack abs.

How come? Well, even if you already HAVE six pack abs, it will be BURRIED beneath the layer of fat, thus it won't be visible no matter how much abs training you do. Yes, I’m referring to belly fat, stomach fat, or whatever you call it. Your main concern now should be lowering your body fat percentage until your six pack abs visible.

So, here is the answer to the question "how to get abs": high-quality designed full body training program and great nutrition knowledge that shoot for long-run maintenance instead of celebrity diet that make you attain the weight back once you lose it.

If you’ve accustomed with typical cardio routine that you can do while watching TV such as treadmill or stationary bicycle, doing weight training may seems like a lot of work. But understand this: you will obtain great result much faster by doing strength and weight training instead of wasting time on unproductive cardio.

So, what type of exercises that you will need to do? Here’s a few example for beginners:

• Bodyweight exercises like squats, lunges, step ups, and pushups.

• Dumbbell exercises like overhead presses.

• Body stabilizing exercises like plank and stability ball exercises.

Strength and resistance training purpose are not only to train your muscle. Good designed strength training can also make you sweating, huffing and puffing, and increase your heart rate; this is a sign that you also train your cardiovascular system while doing strength training.

Another important note is make sure your training circuit consist of exercises that focus on different body movements, thus it’ll create high intensity fat burning workout that works almost every muscle in your body. Here is a good circuit instance:

• Mountain Climbers: 20-30 seconds.

• Dumbbell Squat and Presses (squat, then press overhead).

• Stability Ball Leg Curl-ins.

• Stability Ball Plank Holds.

The right way to do this is minimizing your rest time between exercises as much as possible and repeat each circuit several times before get to the next one.

Strength and resistance training are very important to get six pack abs, but they’re not the only answer to the question "how to get abs". Nutrition knowledge holds the other half of the answer. Here are some things that you should put your priority into:

• Foods that not processed, preferably organic foods.

• High nutrient density foods.

• Fruit and vegetables.

• Good portion of high quality protein in each meal.

• High fiber food for appetite control.

• Fat; obtain from healthy source: nut, seeds, wild fish, organic eggs, virgin oil, avocado, etc.

Getting six pack abs is not a big problem once you've grabbed the keys: good nutrition knowledge and strength training. By implementing these two properly, you’ll gain result a lot faster than the majority of the crowds that still rely on long boring cardio and tons of abs exercises.