An actual LSAT Question:
Frequently, people who diet to lose weight become trapped in a vicious cycle. When those people diet, they not only lose weight, but their bodies becme used to fewer calories and become accustomed to functioning at that lower rate of caloric intake. As a result, when they stop dieting and go back to eating amounts of food that would have just maintained their weight in the days before the diet, they take in far more calories than they need. Those ecess calories produce excess weight.
The passage above best supports whihc one of the following conclusions about people who diet to lose weight?
(a) They are bound to end up weighin more than when they started dieting.
(b) They should not diet if they desire to maintain their reduced weight.
(c) They must not go back to eating pre-diet amounts of food if they are to maintain their weight at the reduced level resulting from dieting.
(d) They will have to eat even less than the amount of food allowed by their diets if they are to avoid gaining weight after they stop dieting.
(e) They never can go back to their pre-diet caloric intake without regaining all of the weight lost by dieting.
Training the mid-section is not that hard-you just have to be smart about it. What most people do wrong is that they focus on the same exercises and then wonder why the results are not showing. When training your stomach muscles, there are two main concepts that you have to keep in mind:
1) work them out intensly; high reps few breaks
2) use different movements to target all of the muscles in the region: the transversus abdominis, rectus abdominis, and obliques.
I think that the best ab exercises are those which combine all three movements into one, which forces the three muscles to work together. This leads to a better workout and better results. A great exercise which does this is the V-Sit Up. Here’s what you do:
Start out lying down on the ground with your legs straight out and hold them about 1 inch off the ground. Tighten up your stomach.
In one motion sit up while bringing your knees up to your chest. As you do this, make sure you are keeping your stomach tight and are initiating the movement from the midsection and not the upperbody (you are trying to isolate your abs, you don’t want to cheat by using your upperbody for help).
Once you get the movement down, you want to do it at an angle so as to incorporate the obliques. Same thing as before, except that before you start the movement you want to be slightly angled to one side.
Doing 12-15 repetitions will target your abdominals in such a way that traditional crunches won’t. Try it out and feel the effect that it has on your abs!
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