I am 5 '9 and weigh 141 pounds. I do at least 200 crunches and 50 twist-motion sit ups a day (Not that much compared to those hardcore healthnuts).
I eat anything (tuna, turkey, ham, sausage, spinach, lettus, rice, etc.) except greasy fast food and sodas.
I don’t work with heavy weights but that’s okay because I can bench 235 pounds.
I don’t take protein shakes because I sort of “fear” (I used to wrestle) 1) excess mass 2) those giant lump looking muscles with no definition.
Where the fuck is my 8 pack?? I’ve had a 6 pack for a while, but the bottom upsidedown T that should complete it feels so feint and unexistant.
By the way, the title filter is gay. 8 pack abs are bulls***.
Of course it’ll get me abs… exercise (i.e. crunches and sit ups) defines muscles while burning fat. However, fat is not the issue. The problem is the muscle itself.
You’re right, but you’re doing the wrong exercises. Your goal is to build the muscle up larger, but you’re doing isolation exercises that aren’t helping you to increase the overall size of the muscle group.
Drop the targetted ab work and start doing squats, deadlifts, and standing military press as part of your weight routine. Keep your BF% down and you should be pretty shredded out in no time.
The caveat to all of this is that ab definition also just depends a ton on genetics. Even at my skinniest points during my wrestling career I didn’t have much of a defined six pack.
Well then, do 400 crunches a day and 100 twist sit ups.
Duh, right?
Okay, I’m not even joking when I reccomend this: Debbie Seiber’s ‘slim in 6’ ab workout video. My girlfriend does her tapes every day. One day, I decided to do the ab routine with her and now I have memorized it, do it twice daily and my abs are more defined then ever before. By the time you finish with the video, you’ve done about 1000 crunches and all sorts of area-specific excercises.
I think the other poster are right … doesnt matter how toned your abs are if they are covered with a layer of fat. From what I understand a good “eight pack” starts showing up at 8-10% bodyfat … not easy to acheive for most people.
You do know you posted this in a forum about fighting and not on MetroSexualTips.com right underneath your last thread about winter skincare routines, right?
This is how I got my 8 pack abs that impressed the living hell out of my girlfriend this one time.
Squats, Deadlifts, Weighted pull ups, weighted dips. 5X5, weight fairly close to 1 rep maxiumum.
Cardio was either 5-6 days per week of Kung Fu. I had the definition on and off, sometimes they would go away around and during finals.
Since college, I have stopped lifting but haven’t lost any weight and still have 8 pack abs, because I’ve been training MMA related stuff and that keeps the body fat percentage low.
So to conclude: Lift big weights that make your muscles bigger. And then do cardio that consumes fat.
If it did, you’d have it already and you wouldn’t be here asking that question.
Furthermore, 200+ crunches is really nothing. That’s just a warm up dude. You do Muay Thai (according to your style field), so you should know this by now.
Seriously, this last post has so many things wrong, so many wrong assumptions I don’t even know where to begin.
Several facts:
There is no such thing as defining a muscle. You grow it or you lose it.
Exercise does not burn fat. What burns fat is your training, and your metabolism at rest (which is directly dependent on the % of lean muscle your body is made of.)
Avoiding protein shakes to avoid ‘lumpy’ muscles does not make any sense. Protein shakes do not that. Your diet and your training does. Where do people come with this nonsense? How hard is it to research their assumptions before using them to make decisions in their lives?
Now, to answer your question, you need to answer the following so that we know what’s going on with your training and diet:
You gave a list of foods, but you did not indicated the amounts, and the intake of those foods throughout your day. So, it’s impossible to discern if you are eating well or not. Could you please describe how you eat that food, in what amounts and at what time of the day? Be detailed and precise.
You mentioned your height and weight, but you did not mention your age (which is also a factor). How old are you?
How can you bench press 200+lbs at 141lbs while claiming not to do heavy weight training? That doesn’t compute. How did you manage then to develop that strenght?
… most important of all…
What’s your current physical training in Muay Thai (and outside of MT) like? We need to know what your training is like to pinpoint if you need to make changes. Be detailed and precise.
Also, I strongly suggest you stop this line of inquiry right now and check the sticky threads on weight training and nutrition, because those are the ones that will help you find out why you don’t get your 8-packs.
If you find yourself unable to answer the 4 questions above, then I’d suggest you check t-nation.com or www.extremefitness.com. Those websites are better suited for questions regarding bodybuilding (working towards getting a particular look, including an 8-pack, is in the realm of bodybuilding training.)
It’s not that we could not answer them. It’s that they have been asked several times and the information pertinent for them is already posted in the sticky thread for users to read and study.
I’d like to reiterate that 200+ ab crunches and 50 trunk twists are just a warm up, period.
I’ve seen pregnant women doing those w/o problems (I shit you not), so it’s beyond me why someone would think this is an exercise hard enough to yield an 8-pack.
QFT. Soccer moms and out of shape college students whip out 200 crunches with no problem at the cardio kickboxing class at the place i do my filipino boxing stuffs and MT. Ain’t nuthin.
How can you bench press 200+lbs at 141lbs while claiming not to do heavy weight training? That doesn’t compute. How did you manage then to develop that strenght?
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It can be done through some pretty extreme bodyweight regimens, but the only people i’ve known who can pull this shit are competitive gynmasts doing handstand pushups, and similar retarded shit the body isn’t meant to do.
How can you bench press 200+lbs at 141lbs while claiming not to do heavy weight training? That doesn’t compute. How did you manage then to develop that strength?
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It can be done through some pretty extreme bodyweight regimens, but the only people i’ve known who can pull this shit are competitive gynmasts doing handstand pushups, and similar retarded shit the body isn’t meant to do.[/quote]
I was going to say…
Yeah, it doesn’t work like that, at all.
Benching +200 lbs on a machine (which still doesn’t make sense at 141 lbs and no weight training) doesn’t count, for the record.
Look bro, I don’t lift or workout…ever. But I will go to a bench, put 2 45’s on each side of that flimsy 45 lb bar and bench that 225 no problem…sixteen times. All the way down. RAW.
Okay? Working out isn’t hard. You just have to man up, that’s all.
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How can you bench press 200+lbs at 141lbs while claiming not to do heavy weight training? That doesn’t compute. How did you manage then to develop that strength?
Well, while it’s not likely, I’m guessing he could’ve done a couple of reps and called it a day. Who knows what his form was like for his pressing or anything like that?
I’ve done 200+ without lifting before, and I’m 5’7, 159 (machine at hotel I was at a couple of months ago) but it wasn’t fuckin’ easy, and I wouldn’t do it again, without knowing what I was doing (I regret that I could’ve been that dumb as a grown man). But, at 141, I’m pretty sure I’d rip something, and look like a moron.
So, while it’s not likely, it’s possible. But way WAY hard to believe. He is one STRONG mofo if he’s putting up that shit like it’s nothing, though, at 141.
