Perfect abs

haha

Oh that would be nice. I would put pictures of people on it.

Maybe you're stronger now. If not pad your gloves with some of your extra body hair.

 

ooohh, good idea with the body hair..plus it will make me feel closer to myself..

They are really hard when you get them and after time they soften up.. so I should expect mine to be hard for years..(yeah, yeah, joke approaching with that last comment )

 

I'll try to keep myself from making a comment.

You need to feel closer to yourself?

 

Yep, that's why I sleep with things that come out of my body or that I pick off...

 

You sleep in shit don't you....dirrrrty.

 

Shroom, I am very disturbed by that muscly woman photo.

 

I not only sleep in shit, I live it...


I love muscular women, I really honestly do...

 

I'd hate to be on the wrong side in a fight shes in.

 

This pretty well sums it up... it's as much diet as it is exercise and doing a ton of sit-ups every day is NOT going to get you abs if your body fat is too high... and if you're naturally very lean, abdominal definition will be quite easy- even if you take bad advice like "do a ton of sit ups"... you'll be fooling yourself and those around you that overworking such a minor muscle group is a good idea. It isn't.

It's misinformation like this that discourages people who take it and find out that it won't work for them. It sets them up for failure.

 

Do you have any idea how can i know the percentage of my body fat?

 

there are a few ways to determine your body fat %, a skinfold test is most common and easily available - and also the least accurate, as it doesn't take into account a lot of factors. however I would advise against worrying about arbitrary numbers like body fat %, weight, etc; what matters is how you feel and look.

as for overworking them, well, in my opinion this is very hard as your abs are used in so many ways in every day life (they function primarily as stabilizers,) some schools of thought even preach that it is unnecessary to target abs at all as they are used as stabilizers or secondary movers in so many other exercises.

if you want good, visible abs, I would focus on diet before anything else (you pretty much can't indulge yourself with sugar or fat anymore, for example) and keep exercising as usual. work every muscle in your body throughout the week, including abs, and the six pack will come.

 

Though to answer that... there are water displacement tests, skin caliper tests, electronic body index tests that you can take to get an idea. In general your percentage needs to be around or below 10 or 11% but that can vary depending on where your fat is distributed and the size of your abdominal muscles. Most guys will have a stubborn fat deposit at or below the navel which covers up the lower abs.

The diet and exercise industries use so much misinformation to peddle their wares and it's really necessary for them to turn a profit because keeping people fat and frustrated means there's a ready hook to rope in suckers. It grates my nerves to watch some of the ads put out by these hucksters who would have you believe that their magic potion targets specific nasty fat deposits that are not your fault and that you don't have to make any lifestyle changes to get those perfect cut abdominals. The problem is that people want easy answers... the diet thieves are all too happy to furnish those answers and they never work.

 

I'll concede this point... strong abs are an important part of your core but it's pretty grueling to really build them much. You are correct that diet is important... also some aerobic exercise helps. Adding muscle mass will increase your base metabolism and make it easier to burn fat with less aerobic work.

 

this is sadly very true. many people don't realize that you can't cheat your way to a great body or anything truly worth having. exercise means discomfort and hard work, not spending ten minutes a day on some miracle machine then going back to stuffing your face with french fries.

and the fitness industry preys on such people, making ridiculous promises and using unreasonable examples and common misconceptions to back up their claims.

 

The fact that these hucksters are allowed to deceive and thieve says alot about the world we live in.. one symptom of many that society is going to shit... and it isn't supposed to be government in a so-called freed society that determines acceptability it's supposed to be grassroots people who determine ethics but we're collectively asleep at the wheel.. in more ways than one. The concept of fat and happy is largely an illusion. The best fitness program comes in the form of a lifestyle and not a temporary interventionist program that's unsustainable long term. It's the program one can stick with.

 

According to some website that calculates the body fat % by taking various measurements into consideration, I have around 11% body fat and the healthy range for my age is from 8% to 20%.
So i guess my fat % is alright and I just need to have a workout routine.

 

11% is pretty good... I'd be suspicious of any range that would have 20% as being a healthy level. If you are at 8% chances are excellent that you'll be sporting a decent six pack. I have fairly good abdominal definition and I'd estimate my body fat to be 11%... maybe down to 10 as I didn't put on very much this winter. I got a bit of a head start on the spring cut.

 

you people are killing me. i used to be a gym rat you know.

 

yeah, that sounds about right.

 

The numbers I'm throwing out applies to men as the thread starter is a guy... to apply those numbers to women wouldn't be fair.