Tue, May-04-04, 18:21
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Plan: Metabolic Surge
Stats: 170/139/?
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Progress: 100%
Location: Canada's Wet Coast
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Originally Posted by innermusic
Sorry dude. Crunches and other ab exercises will only make your abs stronger, and larger, but all that will still be invisible under a layer of body fat. When you start to get down to BF levels of 12% you'll start to see upper abs peeking through. The last vestiges of BF on a male are typically the gut, specifically the circumference around the navel and all the way around to the edges of the back. You'll have to get down to 8% BF or even less to see all the abs clearly. But when you're at those levels, all that ab work will show nicely.
Good luck.
Steve Holt
The Vegetarian Bodybuilder
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I couldn't have said it better myself. In fact, I think I said something similar yesterday on another thread.
On the plus side, when you DO drop the fluff, your abs will be there, waiting for you! And your gut will look, if not quite "better" while you've got this fluff, it will look a lot less bad - flatter is always better than paunchier LOL!
WRT building up the ab muscles, the bigger your ab muscles are, the faster they will begin to appear through the layer of fat. Just really concentrate on pulling "IN" and not pushing "OUT" when you develop them. Big, flat, rippling abs look HOT!
PS sorry for the threadjack trainerdan!
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