Abs Revealed - Jonathan Ross

Abs Revealed

by Jonathan Ross

NEW, 176 pages

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About Abs Revealed

Chiseled abs, a defined midsection, and a powerful core require more than sit-ups, crunches, and the latest miracle diet. To achieve true six-pack success, you’re going to need a plan—one based on the most effective exercises and sound programming. You need Abs Revealed.

In Abs Revealed, award-winning personal trainer Jonathan Ross provides a complete program for strengthening, sculpting, and maintaining your midsection. More than a collection of exercises, Abs Revealed shows you how to fire your ab muscles regardless of your current fitness level, identify your goals, and develop a personalized workout program to fit your schedule with progressions built in for quick and clear results.

This results-oriented, step-by-step guide also includes more than 60 core exercises, ready-to-use workout plans, and advice on integrating abdominal development into cardio and strength routines. Moreover, you’ll discover strategies for applying the latest research on diet and nutrition to enhance and maintain muscle definition and tone throughout the year.

If you’re tired of doing endless crunches with limited results, let Abs Revealed show you a better way. With proven plans and personalized programming, it’s your step–by-step guide to six-pack success.

About Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Ross is an award-winning figure in the world of fitness. He is the owner of Aion Fitness, which provides fitness training, writing, speaking, and consulting services. He also is the personal training director at Sport Fit Total Fitness in Bowie, Maryland. Ross has been featured in Shape, Fitness, Tennis, Women’s Health, Cooking Light, WebMD, and the Washington Post. He is a two-time Personal Trainer of the Year winner (2010 IDEA Health & Fitness Association and 2006 American Council on Exercise) for his creativity and strong leadership in the fitness industry. His career is inspired by his family history of obesity and his “800 pounds of parents,” as he often characterizes it. He is a fitness expert for Discovery Health, where he hosts the video series Everyday Fitness with Jonathan Ross. He was voted the 2008 Best Personal Trainer by Exercise TV and listed as one of the Top 100 Trainers in America by Men’s Journal magazine. A former astronomer, Ross used to study stellar bodies; now he builds them! His favorite activities are hiking, tennis, football, and volleyball—almost any sport involving chasing a ball or a person. He relaxes with music and enjoys caring for saltwater and freshwater fish. Ross lives just outside Washington, DC.

Jonathan Ross is a presenter and award-winning figure in the world of fitness and exercise. He is the owner of Aion Fitness, which provides fitness training and speaking and consulting services. He also is the personal training director at Sport Fit Total Fitness in Bowie, Maryland.

Ross has been featured in Shape, Fitness, Tennis, Women's Health, Cooking Light, WebMD, and the Washington Post. He was named the 2008 Best Personal Trainer by Exercise TV, the 2006 Personal Trainer of the Year by the American Council on Exercise (ACE), and one of the Top 100 Trainers in America by Men’s Journal magazine. He was a finalist for the 2009 Personal Trainer of the Year Award through IDEA and is a fitness expert for Discovery Health.

His favorite activities are hiking, tennis, football, and volleyball—almost any sport involving chasing a ball or a person. He relaxes with music and enjoys caring for saltwater and freshwater fish. Ross lives just outside Washington, DC.

Review of this book

"Say so long to ab flab! This whip-smart guide to creating a firmer, flatter middle is packed with practical advice on everything from dietary missteps to essential exercises. Ross cuts right to the heart of why most of us are still grabbing at our guts and wondering what went wrong, then gives us his no-fail approach to getting the results we really want."

Alyssa Shaffer -- Contributing Editor, Prevention Magazine; Former Fitness Director, Fitness Magazine

"Jonathan Ross is on fire and knows what he's talking about. If you're looking for a solution to a commonly frustrating problem-your waistline-you must read this book."

Todd Durkin, MA, CSCS -- Owner of Fitness Quest 10, Head of Under Armour Performance Training Council, Two-Time Personal Trainer of the Year (IDEA and ACE)

"Jonathan Ross gets to the core of the matter in Abs Revealed. I recommend this new and fresh approach."

Pam Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP -- Host of Discovery Health TV's Could You Survive? and National Body Challenge

About Strength Training

Strength training is the use of resistance to muscular contraction to build the strength, anaerobic endurance, and size of skeletal muscles. There are many different methods of strength training, the most common being the use of gravity or elastic/hydraulic forces to oppose muscle contraction. See the resistance training article for information about elastic/hydraulic training, but note that the terms "strength training" and "resistance training" are often used interchangeably.

When properly performed, strength training can provide significant functional benefits and improvement in overall health and well-being, including increased bone, muscle, tendon and ligament strength and toughness, improved joint function, reduced potential for injury, increased bone density, a temporary increase in metabolism, improved cardiac function, and elevated HDL (good) cholesterol. Training commonly uses the technique of progressively increasing the force output of the muscle through incremental increases of weight, elastic tension or other resistance, and uses a variety of exercises and types of equipment to target specific muscle groups. Strength training is primarily an anaerobic activity, although some proponents have adapted it to provide the benefits of aerobic exercise through circuit training.

Strength training differs from bodybuilding, weightlifting, powerlifting, and strongman, which are sports rather than forms of exercise, although training for them is inherently interconnected with strength training, as it is for shotput, discus, and Highland games. Many other sports use strength training as part of their training regimen, notably football, rugby, lacrosse, basketball, hockey, and track and field

The basic principles of strength training involve a manipulation of the number of repetitions (reps), sets, tempo, exercises and force to cause desired changes in strength, endurance, size or shape by overloading of a group of muscles. The specific combinations of reps, sets, exercises, resistance and force depend on the purpose of the individual performing the exercise: sets with fewer reps can be performed using more force, but have a reduced impact on endurance.

Strength training also requires the use of 'good form', performing the movements with the appropriate muscle group(s), and not transferring the weight to different body parts in order to move greater weight/resistance (called 'cheating'). Typically failure to use good form during a training set can result in injury or an inability to meet training goals - since the desired muscle group is not challenged sufficiently, the threshold of overload is never reached and the muscle does not gain in strength. There are cases when cheating is beneficial, as is the case where weaker groups become the weak link in the chain and the target muscles are never fully exercised as a result.

The benefits of strength training include increased muscle, tendon and ligament strength, bone density, flexibility, tone, metabolic rate and postural support.

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