Six-Pack abs

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in respons to a previous post, im not a body builder, though i have tried. i simply cannot get my muscles to show. mabey im just not built for that.

You can't see muscles under fat. j/k

check my previous post genious. my body fats at 6.8%, last time i checked, most athletes are betrween 8 - 12%.

Eh buddy chill out. He was just kidding. @Thread Starter: A few people here have them, AverageJoe, Helsman and Unforgetto I believe have them. If you need advise with excersising I definetly recommend just pming one of them - especially Helsman - I'm sure they be glad to give you advice man. Good luck gettin that six-pack

srry, didnt mean to freak out. ill check with them thks

I'd say most good or aclimated athletes are 10% or below considering ameture body builders are like 5% and pros like 3%.

No 8-12% is about right. Going under that isn't healthy unless you do have large amounts of muscle to protect that areas that fat would otherwise protect (your kidneys for example), like a body builder would have. It also really depends on the athlete though, as different sports build and require different things. I don't know how accurate that is for most bodybuilders anyways, considering that there's some fat between the muscle structure, and bodybuilders generally have alot of muscle. Going under 5% isn't that great for your body though, even though so many experienced bodybuilders do it.

Even though he's a vegetarian he could still take protein supplements.

Well, even though im a vegitarian doesnt mean that i dont get enough protien. as the majority of nutritionalist say, the average american gets more than 6 times the recomended amount of protien. all that protien goes to waste, mainly into fat and unused enzyms. i get plently of protine from beans, soy, and complex carbs (wich turn into protines). so, in respons to your topic, both by body fat and weight, i am in excillent health, and fairly strong, i just cant show it in any way.

you cant live healthy under 5% body fat. my bro is a personal trainer and he said he learned that the other day. when ray lewis(i love him but its an example) says he is 3.5% fat or whatever it is, thats a lie just like their weight and height.back to abs. you want low body fat and to work them out. when you workout you dont want to work the same muscle more then 1 every 5 days at the most. a muscle is sore cause it is broken down from wokring out, so you have to eat protein to build the muscle back and it takes some time. i follow this religously and it works and you get results. with my abs ill work them out 1-3 times a week just cause i do. you want to mix it up, read this article on getting abs written by a normal person and not a sales cat.http://www.intense-workout.com/ab_workouts.htmlthat site has a lot of great info. i hope this helped.

I'm about 5.5% at most and if you saw me you'd see definitely see little fat on me. I'm not muscular nor big. I weigh in at 147lbs and stand at 5ft 9'. I have a very fast matabalism so if I did gain fat it'd be gone pretty much the next day or something - that's how fast it is.

But also with that, I've always been able to see my abs without working out. Only when doing sit-ups do they become more 'toned'.

Me? :confused:

I'm not a body builder. Plus, if you don't believe that is fine, I have no grudge against you, but I am definitely not lying. So, I guess that makes me unhealthy then.

Wish you could edit older posts. Oh well. You're right btw about me not having 5% body fat. As it would seem the frickin machine I used to calculate it at the gym isn't working properly. I just asked someone I know their's and they said they didn't know because the machine that does it has been malfunctioning over the past few months. So that being the case I am so obviously wrong. I do apologise and I'm really sorry once more for standing my ground for something that is so not right. Sorry

the electronic machines are rarely correct. if you go up to it and it checks you could have 10% then go do a few sets of an exercise come back and it could be 7% which is wrong.

i was the same way, ive had abs since i can remember and i never worked them out. its mainly body fat.

EDIT: it is possible to edit old posts :smile:

I am 16years old i am around 5'8 and weight like 148. I started dieting and running for at least 20 minutes a day sometimes more andi was wondering on that rate how long it would take to get my abs. I usually eat oatmeal with no sugar or nothing for breakfast with water to drink, come home after school usually some kind of soup with water and a fruit, a few hours later usually canned tuna with celery with water..then at nite an apple or orange

dood.. I eat a full bowl of oatmeal with a massive cup of water and usually an apple? and im usually full just from the oatmeal it fills u up for a long time.

lol im sorry but i don't see how im skipping meals? i eat 3-4 a day?

ya dont skip meals ... but your diet is .. ugh ...not really healthy. You need more variation in food. And dont think that with limiting food intake you`ll lose fat easyer. Limiting food intake slows down metabolism , which is a BAAAD thing