After my indoor boot camp, I see a few class participants go to the aerobic room floor and do more cardio on the machines. Some as me, "What else can I do?"

Do you want to punish yourself or deteriorate your body even more thinking that more is better for weight loss? The opposite when it comes to exercise (with intensity) is true. Shorter intense bouts of exercise triumph over the longer ones. I can't stress this enough. Quit grinding yourself down to the ground with more activity. Your body will need the rest in order to recover. You recover lots when you sleep. That's when growth hormones restore itself.

Remember, you've got to look at this as being healthy as well as for weight loss. You'll want to do this consistent and maintain it for life. If you're training hard for a long period of time, three to four weeks long and your hurt yourself, get sick or whatever. What was the benefit of you getting sick of training? Nothing. That's the message I wanted to get to you. You've got to step away from the gym and avoid overtraining and burnt out.

Here's what you've got to do to continue having amazing results to great abs. Tweak your workouts often enough so that your body never adapts. Change your sets, your abdominal movements, and intensity. Keep your workouts fresh; stay current with new exercises to continue to shock the body. Have additional plans of activity other than what you set out for the week to keep things fun.

Here's a quick and easy workout time outline:

Start with a dynamic warm-up with some easy body weight movements for about five minutes.
Then, do metabolism-boosting resistance, interval training using minimal equipments such as some dumbbells, and stability ball for about 20 minutes. Add intense fat burning, interval body exercises or cardio machine for another five minutes for a total 30 minutes.

If you'd like, you can add some additional stretching at the end but you really don't need more exercise and what's outlined. Think your workout through and follow-through with it. Don't aim to workout two massive workouts each week. Since weather is great here in California. I think of working out like the sunrays, because the sun shines and it is warm here. I think of like this, the workouts are like sunshine. It's frequent, not like earthquakes we have, once in a long while.

Have a goal of being active outside of your designated workouts so if you're doing, for example, boot camp class on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, has some activity on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Saturdays. Of course is more than just weight loss than what we put in the gym. Designed and stick with an exercise plan that's about quality over quantity.