I really need help on abs. Can someone help me and tell me what I need to work on for abs to just stick out and bulge. I have abs and they show at different angles and when I bend down but I want them to show all the time. I do work out every morning 7 days a week for 15-20 min. I do a crunches, leg scissors with a crunch and some other ab exercises. I am on a low carb type diet and have been for about a month now. I eat less than Ill say 800 calories a day and mostly just eat fruit, vegetables, some fish, oatmel, and cereal. I do treat myself but thats not even that much and rare. I am dedicated to this and I need help PLEASE. HELP ME AND LET ME KNOW WHAT I HAVE TO DO FOR THEM TO STICK OUT EXTREMELY AND JUST BULGE..THANKSZ
P.S if you need to see what Im working with so far well profile pic isz basically how it is. I might have lost a lil more around waist but for the most part thats how abs look.
abs...I need help BADDDDLLLLYYYYY.....
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abs...I need help BADDDDLLLLYYYYY.....
Last edited by Scooby311 on Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
the 2 most important things here are:
1 - training
2 - eating
the things you are doing wrong here are:
1 - training
2 - eating
from your photo your a while off a 6 pack as you nweed more overall muscle and less overall ...crunches etc don't build abs, hell crunches aren't even what the core muscles are meant to do...just because they can do it (flex the spine, twist etc) doesn't mean that's what they should do (i dont murder people but i could)...
800cal's a day??? absolutely ridicuulous for absolutely anyone on this earth, let alone someone trying to improve their body
training - search the waterbury method by chad waterbury...no there isnt any ab work but they will look 10 x better after the 4 weeks of this'
eating - go to diet section and read "read before posting...
1 - training
2 - eating
the things you are doing wrong here are:
1 - training
2 - eating
from your photo your a while off a 6 pack as you nweed more overall muscle and less overall ...crunches etc don't build abs, hell crunches aren't even what the core muscles are meant to do...just because they can do it (flex the spine, twist etc) doesn't mean that's what they should do (i dont murder people but i could)...
800cal's a day??? absolutely ridicuulous for absolutely anyone on this earth, let alone someone trying to improve their body
training - search the waterbury method by chad waterbury...no there isnt any ab work but they will look 10 x better after the 4 weeks of this'
eating - go to diet section and read "read before posting...
800 calories- you have more to worry about than your abs, trying to starve your body to death and/or create a yo-yo effect upon yourself? Man your body is probably consuming its own muscle just to keep you going and how can you build muscle on pretty much just fruit, you need protein.
go to diet and nutrition section and read sticky "read this before posting", just like swanso said.
go to diet and nutrition section and read sticky "read this before posting", just like swanso said.
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True that
HI mate
The two guys above are 100% correct- the body uses whatever source of energy it can to fuel your breathing, thinking and not collapsing in a big heap. a 50kg person in reasonable health requires about 1600Kcals just to maintain itself, a 90kg person around 2900. At 73kg like you it means 2350Kcals per day for maintenence. As a general rule you can eat less to weigh less, however (and this is the biggie) if you exercise for 20 mins+ your body requires more fuel, not less to function. A diet poor in proteinous foods- ie.one that relies on simple sugars- has very little ability to regenerate the muscle tissues that are broken down by exercise. Add to this your general lack of glycogen (fuel) stores that a normal, varied diet would make available in these muscles (and your liver) means that your body will go for the next available sources--- the fats and muscles. Fats metabolise best at higher temperatures, which is fine for distance runners, muscle stores are, unfortunately a much easier target as you are already breaking them down when you exercise meaning that you really will be eating yourself in a bid to be buff!
With very much the greatest of respect to the gentlemen that make these pages so helpful (and there IS a hell of a lot of knowledge flying around) there is no substitute for a tailored nutrition program from a health professional. I won't take an athlete on properly until I've had a god look at their two-week eating behaviour- if it looks really poor then I am duty-bound to refer them to a nutritionist. At 800Kcals per day you really are in danger of hurting yourself, possibly even affecting your growth at 17 years of age. Please don't look at the wonderful models on the latest "Ab-cruncher" TV ad- these people train to within low amounts of and will take fat strippers for weeks before they shoot the ad. What you don't see is that it's followed by a fat building recovery- where their super six packs will return to a state of muscles covered by a layer of subcutaneous fat.
I think it only right and responsible to promote the correct model for health, not the ill-health of a model.
Looking at your pictures I'd say that you have the potential for some good wide shoulders to hang the rest of your body from- advise would be to get yourself a pull-up bar- get working on that and you'll find your chest, shoulders and lats will draw-up and tighten over your addomen area- revealing some of the definition that you crave- doing things like hanging knee raises, hanging twists, star jumps, squat thrusts and swiss/stability ball work will really boost your looks if that's what you feel the need to get, whilst keeping you strong and healthy. Hit the pool too for a totally-top core workout. Always always get some fuel into you within an hour of exercising- your muscles need it to re-fuel themselves and to stop them from breaking down.
EAT FOR MEAT! Starving yourself is plain wrong.
Best regards
Steve
The two guys above are 100% correct- the body uses whatever source of energy it can to fuel your breathing, thinking and not collapsing in a big heap. a 50kg person in reasonable health requires about 1600Kcals just to maintain itself, a 90kg person around 2900. At 73kg like you it means 2350Kcals per day for maintenence. As a general rule you can eat less to weigh less, however (and this is the biggie) if you exercise for 20 mins+ your body requires more fuel, not less to function. A diet poor in proteinous foods- ie.one that relies on simple sugars- has very little ability to regenerate the muscle tissues that are broken down by exercise. Add to this your general lack of glycogen (fuel) stores that a normal, varied diet would make available in these muscles (and your liver) means that your body will go for the next available sources--- the fats and muscles. Fats metabolise best at higher temperatures, which is fine for distance runners, muscle stores are, unfortunately a much easier target as you are already breaking them down when you exercise meaning that you really will be eating yourself in a bid to be buff!
With very much the greatest of respect to the gentlemen that make these pages so helpful (and there IS a hell of a lot of knowledge flying around) there is no substitute for a tailored nutrition program from a health professional. I won't take an athlete on properly until I've had a god look at their two-week eating behaviour- if it looks really poor then I am duty-bound to refer them to a nutritionist. At 800Kcals per day you really are in danger of hurting yourself, possibly even affecting your growth at 17 years of age. Please don't look at the wonderful models on the latest "Ab-cruncher" TV ad- these people train to within low amounts of and will take fat strippers for weeks before they shoot the ad. What you don't see is that it's followed by a fat building recovery- where their super six packs will return to a state of muscles covered by a layer of subcutaneous fat.
I think it only right and responsible to promote the correct model for health, not the ill-health of a model.
Looking at your pictures I'd say that you have the potential for some good wide shoulders to hang the rest of your body from- advise would be to get yourself a pull-up bar- get working on that and you'll find your chest, shoulders and lats will draw-up and tighten over your addomen area- revealing some of the definition that you crave- doing things like hanging knee raises, hanging twists, star jumps, squat thrusts and swiss/stability ball work will really boost your looks if that's what you feel the need to get, whilst keeping you strong and healthy. Hit the pool too for a totally-top core workout. Always always get some fuel into you within an hour of exercising- your muscles need it to re-fuel themselves and to stop them from breaking down.
EAT FOR MEAT! Starving yourself is plain wrong.
Best regards
Steve