abs

laurenwilcox · Post by **laurenwilcox** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:59 am

i work out abs everyday! and i cant seem to get any deffinition... any one with any advice would be really helpful.
thanks

Bigboi118 · Post by **Bigboi118** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:50 pm

If your doing just direct ab work (crunches, sit ups etc.) u arent gonna get very far. u need to look at ur diet and workout.

Everyone has abs theyre just all covered in fat. Correct nutrition, Cardio and resistance training will uncover them.

laurenwilcox · Post by **laurenwilcox** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:20 pm

yes.. i know i eat as healthy as a teenager can.. haha... i work out at the gym everyday after school and incorporated many different ab excersizes. i do obliques too. prison crunches are favourite and i can feel the burn while im doing them but i never see any results.

Mbauer21 · Post by **Mbauer21** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:39 pm

hey there, you could be eating healthy but are you eating enough?? do you know how many calories you take in daily?? You cant reveal what is not there, abs are just like any other muscle in the body. What kind of exercises are you doin at the gym? Incorporate compound exercises such as squats dead pull ups chin ups etc. AND if you still cant see them then theres something wrong w your diet, ab definition is made in the kitchen. SO tell us what youre eating and exercises.

luke101 · Post by **luke101** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:13 pm

I started doing this one program called ab ripper x. lot of difrent core excercises incorporated in it. I think its great. but i'm no expert

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laurenwilcox · Post by **laurenwilcox** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:37 pm

ya.. i do eat enough i eat like 5 meals a day atleast 3000 calories and i try to eat good clean foods as much as i can. i do many excersizes in the gym, i got everyday after school for atleast and hour and a half... what are some good foods that i should be eating then??

laurenwilcox · Post by **laurenwilcox** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:42 pm

thanks for the site!! lots of good stuff!!

thekid24 · Post by **thekid24** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 12:26 am

hmm, 3000 cals? i think thats a little too much if your goal is to get your abs to show. but yeah, clean diet is the real key. look at powerlifters. they work their "core/abs" almost everyday but they eat almost anything and everything throughout the day (doing ab work everyday wont do you any good unless you eat clean) so, if you want "abs", 3000 cals is a little too much.

Mbauer21 · Post by **Mbauer21** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:09 pm

well as long as you are extremely active during the day, 3000 cals is too much if you wanna get to see your abs. How many cal you should eat each I dont know but what I do is I multiply body weight in pounds by 17 and thats what I consume which equals to almost 2200 a day. you need complex carbs :oatmeal, beans, wheat bread/noodles, veggies, fruit, you also need healthy fats such as avocados, flaxseed, olive oil, fish oil etc and lean protein of course chicken fish etc etc. I hope youre doing more weightlifting rather than cardio everyday. well hope this helps a bit

Mbauer21 · Post by **Mbauer21** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:11 pm

I meant "UNLESS youre extremely active during the day....."

laurenwilcox · Post by **laurenwilcox** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:16 pm

yes i know 3000 is alot but doctor says so... haha

and i am doing lots of weight lifting... mostly the only cardio i do is sprinting and sometimes running up and down stairs. thanks for the food advice tho

juan92 · Post by **juan92** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:06 pm

eat fiber and work out your whole body

littleshelly · Post by **littleshelly** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:14 am

What are you eating and drinking? Do you do HIIT type training. Abs are more about what you eat, how much and body fat%

madmaxx · Post by **madmaxx** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:40 am

yea I think that's true, the more you do for work outs the more you gotta eat.

All I can suggest is eating as right as you can. High school sucks because you don't have much freedom there. For instance I eat every 2 hours and I even take out the food in class if I have to and I start eating it right in front of everyone.

I'm no expert but I did lose 75 lbs so I can tell you that exercise is important but eating right is even importanter

!

Hit the gym just like you do, workout every muscle like usual and eat right.
It's a long process, but hey who said it would be fast.

By the way, I've never heard of a girl wanting to work out as much, I love it. If only girls were like that around here

Packard · Post by **Packard** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:01 pm

Just a note: Don't think "abs" think "torso" when you train.

The abs are merely the "front-end" of your torso. To pull everything together you need to work the obliques, and spinal erectors.

I think 3,000 calories is a bit high, and you might want to increase the protein to carb ratio also.

Subcutaneous fat (the fat just beneath the skin) is the last to be lost for most people. And that is what you need to lose to looked ripped.

For some people (women especially) it means that you need to get below your essential body fat level. For women it is about 12%. If you start to lose your menstrual periods, then you are below your threshold for body fat and you risk some health issues.