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5 Common Myths About Six Pack Abs

August 16, 2012 By Joel Runyon 99 Comments

Last week, I was downtown chowing down breakfast with my friend Patrick Hitches downtown Chicago. Patrick's like a walking terminator and made his own abs transformation a few months back. Our talk quickly shifted from just catching up to fitness and comparing notes on our six-pack transformations. And, as we talked, we marveled just how much bad information is out there about losing weight and burning fat (and even worse, how much of it I believed over ...

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34 Pounds In 8 Weeks: How I Got 6 Pack Abs and Dropped to 5.4% Body Fat Without Stepping Foot In a Gym

July 30, 2012 By Joel Runyon 189 Comments

Get the exact protocol & programming I used to get six pack abs in 8 weeks here. UPDATE: If you'd like to see better photos than the "mirror" shots here, you can see a selection of the photos from our shoot here, which gives a much better overall view of how I looked when I finished this program. This past spring I started a fitness regimen where I lost 34 pounds in 8 weeks, dropped to 5.4% body fat and FINALLY got 6 pack abs in less than 30 ...

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