Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The Plan That Will Turn Your Fat into Muscle

WHEN YOU THINK OF ABS, you may think of Brad Pitt or Janet Jackson.You may think ofmagazine covers andunderwear commercials. You may think of six-packs,washboards, and a belly so tight that you could bounce a marble off it. Your cynical side may also think of airbrushing, starvation diets, and an exercise regimen so time-consuming it would violate labor laws. Abs, you assume, are reserved for athletes, for models, for bodybuilders, for trainers, for rappers, for the half-dressed “talent” on infomercials, for genetic freaks, for the liposuctioned, and for people who would classify celery as a dessert.
Your conclusion: You have a better chance of scaling Mount Everest in a Speedo than you do of getting great abs.
I understand the struggle. You look down, see a Jell-O mold  implanted in your gut, and figure that your days of having a flat stomach vanished the day you graduated from high school. But in a way, you really shouldn’t think of your abs as being extinct. Think of your abs as the third cousins you met at a past family reunion. You remember seeing them, so you have a vague memory of what they look like, but it’s been so long that you really don’t have a clue where they are now. Well, even if it’s been decades since you’ve made any kind of contact with them, the physiological fact remains: You have abs.

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