The AbSmart Fitness Plan by Weiss, Adam;

Short description:

The author of The BackSmart FitnessPlan reveals a smarter, safer way to trimthat waistline--without pain, injury, and allthose crunches!

Long description:

The crunch alone just ain't cutting it.

In your pursuit of a flatter, firmer waistline, you've probably counted thousands of crunches under your belt, literally--along with classes, diets, videos, machines, and more--but with little success. It's time to toss out those tired old techniques and lose that spare tire for good with AbSmart, the total program for toning and strengthening your midsection.

Developed by a chiropractic physician and author of The Backsmart Fitness Plan, this book gives you a personalized system of targeted abdominal exercises and clinically proven diet advice to define and shrink your middle, giving you the shape you've always dreamed of, without boring repetitions and back injuries.

Step-by-step, at home or in the gym, you'll learn how to:

• Maintain proper spinal alignment and movement
• Increase hip flexor flexibility for more effective workouts
• Breathe properly and stretch safely
• Twist away your love handles
• Use your body weight as resistance to increase power
• Beat the bloat with the AbSmart eating plan
• And much more

The crunch alone just ain't cutting it.

In your pursuit of a flatter, firmer waistline, you've probably counted thousands of crunches under your belt, literally--along with classes, diets, videos, machines, and more--but with little success. It's time to toss out those tired old techniques and lose that spare tire for good with AbSmart, the total program for toning and strengthening your midsection.

Developed by a chiropractic physician and author of The Backsmart Fitness Plan, this book gives you a personalized system of targeted abdominal exercises and clinically proven diet advice to define and shrink your middle, giving you the shape you've always dreamed of, without boring repetitions and back injuries.

Step-by-step, at home or in the gym, you'll learn how to:

• Maintain proper spinal alignment and movement
• Increase hip flexor flexibility for more effective workouts
• Breathe properly and stretch safely
• Twist away your love handles
• Use your body weight as resistance to increase power
• Beat the bloat with the AbSmart eating plan
• And much more

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One ? Getting Started
1. Why Abs Smart Fitness Works
2. Why Crunches Don?t Get the Job Done
3. Preparing to Workout
Part Two
- Your Workout: Ultimate Core Fitness
4. Alternative Moves to building a stronger, firmer midsection
5. New Twists for Sculpting your Love Handles
6. Shrink Your Waistline with Lower Core Power
7. Resistance Training to Bring out Your Chiseled Abs
Part Three: Putting It All Together: The AbSmart Fitness Plan
8. The Ultimate Core Conditioning Circuit
9. What to Eat for a Lean and Healthy Waistline
10. Beat the Bloat for a flatter stomach
11. How You Eat is Just as Important as What You Eat
Conclusion
References
Index