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danny_tuff Posts: 85 Joined: 2006/11/12	2007/04/03, 03:02 AM THE BEST PIECE OF ABS-SCULPTING EQUIPMENT IS A FORK Guys, everyone has abs. Yes, everyone. They get worked even if you never target them directly with exercises like crunches, because they stabilize every lift, including isolation moves like curls. The reason you can't see yours isn't lack of exercise. It's excess fat. The solution is NOT to do fancy abs exercises. Or crunches. Or an Ab Lounge. It's to eat properly. I recently just read this on a random site, not by any big name person with years of experience or anything like that but this just sums up what hundreds of members need to know and ask and what hundreds of other members have been telling them! Personally I don't see how the members that have been here along time don't crack it when someone asks how to get that 6 pack! Hopefully this will slow down the rate of how to get abs questions, and in the most simple way possible:big_smile:
christal086 Posts: 155 Joined: 2007/01/06	2007/04/03, 05:24 AM Good post,its really good to try and get this through to the newbies to, its always repeated time after time when will we learn?
Velasca Posts: 441 Joined: 2006/10/26	2007/04/06, 10:06 PM very good post..and here is an article just to reinforce this.. http://www.paulburkefitness.com/articles_abs.php
georgiagirl Posts: 421 Joined: 2006/07/11	2007/04/07, 02:44 PM how about an abs sticky!!!! -------------- My Catahoula did it.
yadmit Posts: 4,670 Joined: 2003/10/05	2007/04/07, 04:45 PM Good post. But now comes the pessimist in me. Some will read it, some won't. Some that will, will think diet is not the key. They will think 500 crunches a day will cure their 'love handles.' Because they don't want to give up their Cheetos and milkshakes. Those that won't read it will still post 'how do I get a six pack?' We'll direct them to this post, yet they won't believe it cause they don't want to give up their Cheetos and milkshakes. Normally I'm a glass is half-full kinda guy, but for as long as things like the Sauna Belt and Ab Lounge and all the other garbage that makes its way to the Shopping Network and overnight Informecials exist, we will be answering the most popular question in the world "how do I get a six pack?" Sorry for the negativity here, but abs 'are where it's at' as long as I can eat what I want and how much of it I want. t -------------- I see the words you are typing, but all I read is *click*click*click* - One should not lift like a man or a woman, lift like a human.
Ravenbeauty Posts: 3,755 Joined: 2002/09/24	2007/04/07, 04:54 PM I have to agree with Tim on this. But all in all nice post for those with the right mindset. :) -------------- Bettia "Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open." - Lord Thomas Dewar
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2007/04/07, 06:19 PM Well, as much as I agree with the premise as I have preached endlessly, abs are 90% made in the kitchen. However, the notion(and this is not the first time this has been posted) that no special ab work is needed is just as absurd. Yes, we all have abs. But to have 'show abs' you must work them. Biceps are there too, but to have any degree of 'show', you must do something to overload them. -------------- "If it ain't broke, you aren't trying."
danny_tuff Posts: 85 Joined: 2006/11/12	2007/04/08, 03:49 AM bb1 i think what the guy was saying wasn't so much saying you don't need to work them but more that you don't need to do a countless amount of different excercises for them instead spending more time working on your diet was better. You were actually one of the main reasons i posted this because looking through all the old posts alot of the time your the first one to answer and its always the same thing and the best excercise is the push away :laugh: i just thought if there was something that all new people could look at save alot of people that help out on this site alot of time. thanks
christal086 Posts: 155 Joined: 2007/01/06	2007/04/09, 02:16 AM i saw a trainer on tv actually reinforce this abs are made in the kitchen he said. then went on to say 80% of the effort is dietry based.