Abs fitness workout: How to get six-pack abs

Assuming you want to get six pack abs, here is how you do it. These exercises and fitness guidelines will give you a battle plan for getting fitter and, more importantly, ripped.
Be Warned: If you want a ripped six pack, it will take work. This is an effective method, but it does require a lot of you.
 Ab Exercises
Unsurprisingly, if you want to have well-defined abs then ab exercises will be a great help. These will not only work your rectus abdominis, your 'six pack' muscle, but your other ab muscles as well.
As always, take it slow in the beginning when you're starting out. No sense in going too fast in the beginning, only to break something and have to slow down afterward.
- Ab Bicycles -
Ab bicycles are a basic abs exercise that requires you to almost knee yourself in the face to get that ab burn. Avoid that and you'll strengthen your abs and remove the major potential for injury with this exercise.
Start out lying on your back, with your hands clasped behind your head. Lift your head off the floor and bring your left knee and right elbow as close together as possible. Then kick your left leg out, slightly uncurl your abs, and bring you right knee and left elbow closer.
The extension of the leg not flexing up to touch your elbow gives your legs the appearance of pedaling a bicycle. Thus, ab bicycles.
- Reverse Crunches -
Reverse crunches are just like regular ab crunches - except backwards.
Start lying on your back with your hands clasped behind your head. Your knees should be bent, with the soles of your feet on the ground and slightly wider than shoulder width apart.
Your head and arm should be lifted off the ground for the duration of this exercise, forcing you to contract your upper abs. For the exercise movement itself, keeping your own body stiff & contract your abs to pull your knees up and into your stomach. Then slowly relax your abs and allow your feet to return to the floor - that's one repetition.
- Ab Vacuums -
Ab vacuums work your inner abdominal muscles. This is a really simple exercise: simply pull in your stomach as much as you can - like you might to show off how slim you are. Then relax and let your stomach back out.
As far as getting you beautiful abs, this exercise will build a healthy level of tension in you inner ab muscles - helping you to have that slim, stomach-tucked-in-&-abs-ripped look all the time.
- Planks -
Planks, especially planks on stability balls or other unstable surfaces, work wonders
to build strength in your core muscles. This works your abdominal muscle's stabilizing ability. Creating a rock solid core!
For the basic plank, start lying face down on the floor. Place your forearms down in front of your face on the floor, in a triangle with your clasped hands just in front of your head. Then, lift your body parallel to the floor, supported with just your forearms and toes.
This is a basic plank to get you started. There are tons of other plank variations that you can try (3 point, stability ball, one arm, etc.) - way too many to list here!
 Weight Training
Alas, abdominal training is not enough. That will strengthen your abs, but strengthening the rest of your body will greatly accelerate your efforts.
First, full-body weight training with dumbbells, barbells, or any other means will raise your metabolism for many hours after the workout. This helps you burn more calories and reduce your body fat.
Also, building muscle mass will give you an all around more muscular look. And since you're going for a beautiful body, this will greatly help.
 Correct Diet
Even if your'e training your abs with a great fitness routine, you still need to eat a little less than usual. You're trying to lose fat in order to show off your abs - cut back on your food a bit when you're working out.
 So, there's a great outline for an abs fitness workout. It will build your abdominal muscles into bigger and much more intimidating organs.
You can also check out these pages on six pack stomach info and tips, which will give you a lot more guidance for getting ripped abs (and photos of the different exercises). Also, try these 6 pack abs diet guidelines to make sure that your diet supports your workout.