Let’s Talk A Little About Ab Exercises
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.
So I get on the medicine ball and do what exercising I can on that, work a little with the dumbbells; but I tell you, this is just not for me. I want to look good and I want to be strong and attractive, but I’m just too lazy to put the effort into it; I wish there were another way of attaining the same end point without having to work and sweat so much. These ab exercises are a real downer and I tell you, I am not thrilled at all thinking about all the work I have ahead of me.
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.
I know there are a lot of psychological explanations for the abhorrence that I have for ab exercises, but I guess the main one is that you have to want to do it for yourself. It’s all that drivel about loving yourself first and doing for yourself and developing your self esteem, and then all the rest will follow—like sticking to an exercise routine. You must make up your mind that this is what you want, and by golly you are doing this for yourself, and no one else.
I’ve been doing some thinking lately, and the thought occurred to me that I should start hanging around more with my friends that are eating the right stuff so they stay healthy, and they don’t seem to be exercising all that much or go to the gym, and they seem to be in pretty good shape. Maybe just being more with them will help, and if I follow the same patterns that they are, I can ditch these ab exercises and just hang out and look good.
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.
Gerald Holt has written and published many works about Getting Abs. For more information on How To Do Sit Ups visit our site.
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