Rule 4 Focus on your Diet

In order to burn fat and reveal your washboard, six-pack abs, it is important to eat a balanced diet that is made up of protein, healthy fats, and some carbohydrates. Protein helps form the building blocks of muscle and is probably an essential macronutrient of them all, mainly because your body burns a ton of calories digesting protein. Calculating the right amount of carbohydrates to eat can be tricky, but a good strategy to use is to eat most of your carbs post-workout.

Rule 5 Stop Doing Thousands of Crunches

Compound, multi-joint, total body movements will promote a total fat loss and promote a much bigger muscle building response than crunches and sit-ups ever will. Personally, I think that it is completely pointless to waste an hour of your time doing hundreds of useless crunches and sit-ups when that hour could be spent doing exercises that are more productive for fat loss.

Rule 6 Use Smarter Cardio Methods

I'm sure you've probably heard that the best way to burn fat is to do long duration cardio at a slow to medium pace. This fat loss method is decent, but there is a much better way. I suggest doing interval workouts combined with abdominal exercises. During the active recovery period of your interval workout, perform an ab exercise. For example, if you are doing interval sprints on a stationary bike or treadmill, run for 30 seconds at your maximum speed. Hop off of the machine and immediately perform a set of 20 exercise ball crunches. Get back on the machine and crank it back up again. Repeat 5-8 times.