What's going on, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the fit, healthy, and most of all, happy podcast. I'm your coach and host, Josh, here with his co-host and co-coach, KG, and I'm in the house. And in this episode, we're going to be talking about how to finally get more visible abs and get a six-pack for summer. We just really want to help as many people as possible, and we realize that time is going to fly way quicker than we could imagine. So essentially we just wanted to give you the tips to get them, but also keep them. You know, keyword there, keep them. And the biggest thing before we jump into it is you have to kind of understand that everybody's genetics are so different, the way that yours are shaped, you know, the time that it's going to take. There's some people who are going to literally be ready in one month, you know, two months, three months. And then there's some people that might be six to nine months based off your body fat levels based off of. And once again, even just someone like Josh, his abs are completely different than someone like mine. And it's just, you know, very genetic, but also at the same time, all these tips, you know, the five or six that we're going to share with you can definitely be applied. And we want to make sure that everybody gets the results they deserve. So let's jump right into number one. So number one is just having a calorie deficit through nutrition. Now, time and time again, I just truly believe that people are realizing that this is the number one thing. but then every time I go on Google or have a conversation with someone, you know, on the beach or just somewhere random, they're just like, hey, man, I'm doing the side crunches for another 30 minutes per week. And I just nothing's happening. And then, you know, just a lot of people don't realize that, right? That doesn't make you a bad person. But simply monitoring your calorie intake intake keeping a log um we use my fitness pal we're not affiliated you know we have all of our

clients keeping track of their nutrition on there and transferring over to a spreadsheet but making sure

that you're eating less than you're burning um is going to be the biggest contributing factor right

so i just find so many people wasting time doing a million other things. But if you're

not keeping track and making sure that you are eating less, and it doesn't have to be significantly less, you don't have to be starving, you don't have to be, you know, just crying at night because you're hungry for food, but just simply eating a couple hundred calories less per day than your body wants, that's going to be the biggest thing. So we take photos every single month. We take measurements every

month and then we also keep track of the average way in for all of our clients online to make sure

that we are progressing the way we want. Absolutely. That deficit is the biggest thing. You know,

so many people think they can just do abs every day or do 30 minutes an hour, however long

it is. There's no dedicated number you can do to where

you're just going to have abs without changing your nutrition if you don't already have them.

You know, it's very like everyone has a muscle at the end of the day. And like, I know people are like,

listen, I know that people say everyone has abs, but I definitely don't. I just have the stomach.

But truly it is just the fat that is covering it. Working abs will show different definition of the abs. And it is definitely important. But, you know, once again, doing crunches and all that great stuff, you know, it has a place, but it is a lot more minimal than you think. You know, nutrition is first and foremost because you need to be at a lean enough body fat where you can see it.

And saying so, too, don't neglect the big components of this journey.

So, you know, once again, by doing like heavy compounds and learning to brace in your movements

and really learning how to breathe optimally when you are working out, you're going to be at a huge

advantage and you're going to learn how to actually contract and utilize your apps on big movements. At the end of the day, me crunching

me up isn't going to do as much as me using my apps to stabilize me on a 500 pound squat.

It just isn't comparative. And that's why you'll actually notice power lifters in particular

do have phenomenal apps. So very often I task people to do their actual movements from their workout better and to really focus on that before they just spend their time doing a million crunches. You know, I've worked in a gym pretty much my whole life when I was kind of starting on on my fitness journey, you know, especially as a teenager. And just all the time I'd see new signups. I'd see them at the table signing up. And then literally all week,

I would just see them just doing abs. And it's, you know, great in theory. It's just not how it works. You really got to get that out of your head. Even there's been people, you know, I work with. And sometimes they're like, listen, I want to do way more abs. And like, there's a reason, you know, I don't assign like bulk of abs.

Like to me, it's like what I rather you do 60 minutes

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