I want a 6 pack.

There have been many occasions where I have been told, "I want a six pack!"  Many of us have goals in and out of the gym and an attribute that many athletes long for is the ever elusive SIX PACK!!

At first I used to get really embarrassed when someone would mention my "abs" and say, I want THOSE!!  I would blush and turn away, quickly remember that in the heat of the workout that I had taken my shirt off and that I was standing in the middle of the gym in my sports bra.  I would put my shirt back on and go about my business.

Until the time that someone stopped me in my bathing suit while on a cruise with my family.  Jim and I were getting ready to go on some crazy speed boat ride and this random stranger says to me, "Wow, you have a great body and a nice six pack, YOU  MUST EAT WELL!!!"

Ding ding ding!!!  The light bulb went off in and bells started ringing in my head.  I just talked to someone WHO GETS IT!!!

You see, I know I have said this time and time again....and I will repeat it over and over and over....but the key to a six pack has nothing to do with what specific exercises I do in the gym, my six pack is received by one specific exercise....and that is EATING!!

If you REALLY REALLY REALLY and I repeat REALLY want a 6 pack there are some things that you just can't have.  Don't get me wrong, you have to exercise to support your clean eating....but it's not the other way around.  Let me repeat that, you need to exercise to support your clean eating you do not eat clean to support your exercising!!

Thus creating this viscous cycle.  You eat well.  Your endurance grows.  You get stronger.  You continue to eat well.  Your endurance grows.  You get stronger. 

Things CLICK when you eat well.  They just do.

So here is my question I pose to you today:

Do you want a 6 pack?

Or a 6 pack?

Or a 6 pack?

 It's as simple as making the right choice.