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Tom_B said:Well i still want a little defintion, enough to the point I can walk without it flabbing up and down lol, just i don't want a a huge six pack stomach that sticks out.
Have you ever had it tested?Tom_B said:lol but my problem is according to my pics someone told me I'm at 8% BF or Lower, that's why i can't understand why i don't have visible abs, espically if I'm constantly training them, my theory is I have alot of water under my skin, I need to look into some good direutics or my body fat % just isn't that low
babylon said:Defenition: 30-50 reps without weights, 3 sets.
P-funk said:No such thing as lower abs. The rectus abdominus is one muscle that contract two way (top to bottom and bottom to top). No matter what there is no such thing as targeting the lower portion of that muscle (it be like saying you could work on the part of your bicep near your elbow one day and the part by your shoulder the next). The upper portion of the rectus is more superficial (bigger muscles, closer to the skin). The lower portion is less superficial (deep inside and far from the skin) which is why it is usually the last part you see and almost always has a small layer of fat hanging over it. Strict Strct dieting will expose that. As far as core strength goes do either leg lifts or situps (weighted). The only reason to do abs is to make them stronger and increase your core strength. To see them you need to diet for it. No such thing as targeting one area or the other.
babylon said:Defenition: 30-50 reps without weights, 3 sets.
Do you mean like Boyer Coe??.. I can't find a single pic of a Boyer with a "6 pack", IMO his abs or lack of abs made him one of the strangest built pro's of all time.PreMier said:Some people just dont have abs.. you may be one of them.
PreMier said:Some people just dont have abs.. you may be one of them.
I'm the same way, I'm the only person who cares about nutrition and exercise...everyone else in my family is fat. And just b/c all the guys in your family have beer guts doesn't mean you have bad gentics...it just means you have to work harder to keep yourself from looking like them lol. dgnTom_B said:I'd follow your ab workout deadbolt but alot of the ab work you do i don't have access to, all I can do is anything I hold the weight in my hands (or maybe I could use a dumbbel and lift it off the floor with my feet) I can't do leg raises and pulley stuff, don't have the equipment for it. I'll probably have to go out a get a medicine ball and maybe some ankle straps with weights on em, for my lower part of my abs.
Thats not a problem, just as long as you hve a bench and some weight you can do weighted ab work. If need be we can make a routine for ya basing it on what equipment you have.
Thanks for explaining that all exercises work all the abs, I always thought I didn't have a good ab exercises that really targeted the lower abs cause I could always feel it working my upper to.
It justy feels that way b/c they get most of the load of lifting and are the larger portion of the muscle. All the abs are hit don't worry about it....its a common mistake and one I use to make in the past as well.
I think I'm just gonna train my abs like any other muscle group training my obliques 2x a week and my rectus adominis 2x, with 2 exercises each time.
lol How can someone not be able to have abs? Like said before their just another muscle group, so as long as you train em right and have a good diet it is possible to have them right?
Yes you have abs but geneticly sometimes they just don't grow and cannot be seen. Just like for some people no matter what they do certain muscles just don't grow...same goes for abs
I don't think I have good genetics for my abs, all my uncles and my dad has beer bellies, O well it's said I'm the only only one in my household that dosen't have that bad of a flabby stomach (except for my sisters but there 8 and 9...damn kids and their extremly high metabolsims)
DimebagDarrell said:kewl, thanks for the help guys, time to incorporate these. i have like zero abs mass compared to the rest of my body, i definitely need some mass in my abdominals
DeadBolt said:I'm the same way, I'm the only person who cares about nutrition and exercise...everyone else in my family is fat. And just b/c all the guys in your family have beer guts doesn't mean you have bad gentics...it just means you have to work harder to keep yourself from looking like them lol. dgn
CowPimp said:Then you need to get to a very low bodyfat. That's just the way it is. Definition is about lower bodyfat percentage.
pmech said:Agreed. You need to put some muslce on before you can see it. .
DeadBolt said:I use to think that for the longest then I trained the hell out of them and realized things were growing, now I'm just trying to make them as thick as possible..
I can never understand ppl that have a one dimentional focus on bodyparts and fail to see the rest of the body that they lack. e.g. "i want great abs" ... "I want big arms"...CowPimp said:My other brother is really funny. He's 12, and he is dead set on getting 6 pack abs.