Fastest Way to Get a Six Pack at Home

Six pack abs are an aesthetically pleasing indicator of personal fitness. You can get a six pack at home by carrying out a few different exercises on a regular basis to increase the size and strength of your abdominal muscles. However, this is only part of the process. More importantly, you need to reduce your body fat. Everyone has a six pack, but they are seldom visible because of the layer of fat on top of them. To reveal your six pack, you need to eliminate this layer.

Diet

• One of the easiest ways to reduce your body fat is to change your diet. Eliminate alcohol, soda, fast food and processed foods from your diet, and increase the amount of vegetables you eat. Next, reduce your portion size across the board -- use smaller plates or try to make a point of always leaving some food on your plate. Finally, change your diet to reduce simple carbohydrates, which come from processed wheat and sugars. So, you should have wheat bread instead of white bread and whole-grain pasta instead of standard pasta.

Compound Exercises

• Compound exercises work entire muscle groups and almost always include the abs to stabilize. Examples include pushups, squats and hanging leg raises. Pushups work your triceps, back and chest while keeping your back straight with your abs. Squats work your legs but also engage your abs to keep your back straight, and hanging leg raises are the converse -- they engage your abs and legs, but use your arms and upper body to stabilize.

Abdominal Exercises

• Abdominal exercises focus on your six-pack muscles. Examples include situps and crunches, but there are more complex examples. You can, for example, target your obliques by lying on one arm with your body at a 45-degree angle to the ground, then raise one leg, and then slowly lower it. Or, you can work your core abdominal muscles by lying on the ground and bringing your arms and legs together at the same time, keeping both straight to make your body into a V. This works your entire core and develops your six-pack muscles.

Interval Cardio

• Interval training is when you work hard for a short time, then work at an easier intensity, and then speed up again. You would repeat this process for around 20 minutes. A good at-home interval training is to jump rope. Warm up with slow jumps for around five minutes, jump as hard as you can for 30 seconds, and then slow down for a minute. Repeat the exercise over again for the 20 minutes.

  You can increase the intensity in a variety of ways. You can just jump faster if you want, or you can add double jumps where you were previously doing single jumps. It is not really important as long as you work harder in your intervals than you do in your rests.