For all their beach-dominating, T-shirt-rippling, girl-moistening powers, a rack of chiselled abdominal muscles is perhaps the hardest look to achieve. Thanks a lot, God: for burying our granite-like washboard slats under a doona of stomach fat forever. But don’t just sit at the beach this summer with a T-shirt on – help is available. Put your gut in the hands of FHM Bionic for just six weeks, and you can have the rock-hard six-pack you’ve always wanted.
1. BURN THE FAT OFF IN TEN MINUTES
Start – and continue – with the most efficient cardio workout out there is. Simply follow these steps:
1. Warm up with a five-minute jog.
2. Now sprint flat out at 100 per cent effort for 20 seconds.
3. Then do 10 seconds at a slow pace.
4. Do this eight times then jog slowly for one minute.
And that’s it: your fat-zapping workout is over in 10 minutes. A study in the European Journal Of Applied Physiology discovered that this “20 seconds on, 10 seconds off” form of training was the fastest way to increase your fitness and maximise blubber burning.
2. STOP EATING THESE...
Do it right now. Cut these ab enemies out of your diet. True, most of them are “fun” foods, but make the decision to take the pain now and the pleasure later. Remember: no food tastes as good as being ripped feels. So, cut...
Three large meals a day: Your body’s metabolism evolved to snack and graze, rather than the get-hungry-then-binge cycle of normal life. So eat six small meals through the day instead.
White carbs: Lose things such as white bread, spuds and pasta – they take too long to break down. Instead, go for high-fibre, low GI carbs such as brown rice and grainy bread.
Alcohol: It increases your levels of the female hormone oestrogen, which is responsible for your beer gut. Also makes you drive badly. Female hormone, remember?
Takeaway: Cheap ingredients and chemical additives mean takeaway meals are loaded with ab-covering trans fats. Lose them.
Soft drinks: Full of sugar – drink two to three litres of water a day instead.
A few more nutritional no-nos and foods you should be eating...