“The Abs Diet” – Thoughts And Review Prior To Trying It
Another Team Beachbody coach turned me onto this book, and I got it at a steal at Barnes And Nobel’s webite:
The Abs Diet by David Zinczenko (editor-in-chief of “Men’s Health Magazine”).
The great thing about P90X is that it comes with an extremely flexible meal plan. The only thing lacking from it is a more detailed description of why things work the way they do.
The Abs Diet took the approach of teaching you why the combination of foods you eat matters and gives the explanation behind why it’s “Power 12″ foods can help burn belly fat at a faster rate.
Interestingly enough, a lot of the foods on The Abs Diet “Power 12″ are identical to a lot of the foods in the P90X plan, but the book does point out a few things that you should avoid that appear on the P90x plan.
Likewise, the book allows a cheat meal where P90X suggest against it.
The book also has a light weight exercise routine that you can follow 3-6 days a week. It incorporates 3 days of strenght training, 2 days of mild cardio, one day of intervals, and ab work 2 days a week.
So, here’s my plan:
I’m going to use this diet (it’s a 6 week diet, but I’m sure I’ll do it longer) and use Beachbody routines. My goal is to use Turbo Fire for the cardio and either ChaLEAN Extreme or P90X for the lifting. I’m going to use either Ab Ripper X or Brazil Butt Lift’s Tummy Tuck as the ab routines 2-3 days a week (leaning towards 3, similar to P90X), but going to follow the book’s suggestion of doing abs first and then doing the routine.
I start with this January 2nd. I’ll be blogging more about my findings here before I start and then quite regularly about progress after.
