Originally Posted by Plateau_Max

You guys kill me.

Okay the scoop on abs. There are many examples of people who are super skinny and you can see their abs when they flex or what not simply because there's nothing there to get in the way of the muscles. There needs to be a balance of both ab targetted exercise as well as an extrordinary focus on your diet.

You can control your diet immensly and get down to it you'll have a six pack but it will be rather pathetic for the most part. Also giving your abs a marathon workout consisting of very high reps... crunches, leg lifts, you name it really isn't going to do much. To give your abs more "presence" you'll need to BUILD them the same way you'd build any other muscle group. Slow rep, LOW rep, weighted exercise that really puts some good resistance to you will help build them up to be more prominent.

This is something I thought most people on this forum had figured out by now, you can't attack anything from one angle and get good results. You need to research, fine tune, and attack from all possible angles. In this case do the right exercises, have the right diet, and stay dedicated.