Work your muscles, lose fat and get rock hard abs. Everyday, we always see a new machine or ab exercise promising rock hard abs. Well, by increasing your muscle mass through weight training, you will lose fat and get rock hard abs!

Ab machines, ab exercises or fad diets promise you rock hard abs. These ads give you the illusion that spot reducing works and that by targeting the abs directly, you will get rock hard abs. Many commercials make it look like, if you use their product, you will look the overly muscled bodybuilder or the super fit and trim fitness model that they have demonstrating the product.

Here's the reality check! You will not look like those fitness models in a few weeks of using their products.

Let's build muscle! Building muscles are the key to really jump-start your metabolism and burn fat.

You see, when we train our body to build muscles, the muscles will adapt to the increased demand and be forced to increase its activity level. This increased activity level requires more energy to function. The body must then provide the muscles with fuel to keep the body moving.

The body must then burn what we eat as fuel, then when we no longer have any food to burn as energy, the body turns to the its fat and begins to use that as fuel to provide energy to the muscles.

During training, the muscles are worked so hard that they function in a lowered oxygen state. The moment the body has a chance to bring oxygen to the muscles; it forces the muscles to increase its activity by nourishing and repairing the muscles as well as removing the accumulated waste products in the muscles.

This repair and nourishment of the muscles can occur throughout the day and causes the body to burn more calories even after the exercise session is over. As a result, the body becomes a fat burning machine, even when it is not exercising.

Then after a few days of training, the muscles increase in size, which then causes the muscles to increase its activity even more.

When we build muscle, we are really building a fat burning machine in our body that will burn fat, increase fat loss and get us those rock hard abs that we want.