First off I would recommend checking out AskMen.com’s Ab Guide. They have some great information there as well.

Diet

I have already introduced the idea of eating healthy in order to achieve your ab goals. I would work on cutting out the sweets from your diet. This will help drastically on the fat intakes you have. One tip I would like to pass along is to take out all your junk food from your cupboards and give it away, then go to the store and replace that junk food with healthy fruits, vegetables, and alternate snacks. Check out Wikipedia’s Healthy Diet entry for more information.

Cardio

Cardio is important if you need to burn fat, actually it is great for your body either way and will help a lot with achieving your ab goals. A few things you could are running (10-20 minutes, whatever you can do, push yourself), swimming, and biking. The first two would probably be your best bet since biking does not rely as much on your abs as the others do. If you need to burn fat this is where you are going to do it, ab workouts only workout the muscle underneath the fat.

Ab Workouts

Check out these sites for many great ab exercises until our list goes up:

• Ab and Core Exercise Progression
• Real Women’s Fitness Ab Section (men can use them too)
• AskMen.com’s Ab Guide
• How to Structure Your Ab Workout for Better Abs

There are many other resources online for great ab workouts, I will write a post in the coming weeks with my personal favorite exercises for abs. Comment below if there is anything you would like to add!

The world record hasn’t been broken since 1999, and is still held by Hicham El Guerrouj from Morocco at 3:43.13 minutes.

Below is a link to a video of the record setting race, my favorite part is that he is contested by someone keeping pace with him on the final stretch. It is a good watch and well worth the 4 minutes.

Hicham El Guerrouj Sets a World Record in the Mile at YouTube.

The post that actually brought me to this blog is a post about “Do You Help Others With Fitness and Weight Loss” and it made me think about going to the gym and people’s attitudes there. She writes:

It seems that when someone gets a good piece of information or advice they hoard it for themselves when they know that a lot of other people could benefit from it.

I do not believe to this to entirely true however, because I have seen many people willing to help out at the gym with each other. I do not however, impose my ways of working out upon others unless I am asked, but if someone where to ask me how to work a machine, or how to do an exercise correctly I would be more than happy to share. The reason I am writing this blog is to share my knowledge with as big of a crowd that will read me.

Part of Positive Fitness’s goals is to provide people with the knowledge so that they can pass it on to others. I hope more people would do the right thing in the situation that Real Women’s Fitness writes about and give the person the correct information.