Abs Will Help You Win

IF YOU PLAY GOLF, basketball, naked Twister, or any sport that
requires movement, your essential muscle group isn’t your chest,
biceps, or legs. It’s your core—the muscles in your torso and hips.
Developing core strength gives you power. It fortifies the muscles
around your whole midsection and trains them to provide the
right amount of support when you need it. So if you’re weak off
the tee, strong abs will improve your distance. But if you also
play stop-and-start sports like tennis or basketball, abs can improve
your game tremendously. Though speed is the buzzword
TV analysts like to use to differentiate between Hall of Famers
and practice-squad players, athletic success isn’t really about
speed. It’s really about accelerating and decelerating. How fast
can you go from a stopped position at point A to stopping at
point B? Your legs don’t control that; your abs do. When researchers
studied what muscles were the first to engage in these
types of sports movements, they found that the abs fired first.
The stronger they are, the faster you’ll get to the ball.
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These are all great reasons to pursue the Abs Diet. But the best
reason is this: The program is an easy, sacrifice-free plan that will
let you eat the foods you want and keep you looking and feeling
better day after day. It’s designed to help you lose weight in the
easiest possible ways: by recalibrating your body’s internal fatburning
furnace, by focusing on the foods that trigger your body
to start shedding flab, and by rebuilding you into a lean, mean,
fat-burning machine.