Who Here Blows Off Abs Especially if You Are Married? Be Honest

[the People's Champ]

I loathe working abs, and I have to totally agree with curling's thread starter, they fucking hurt!!! I try to work them out at least, just so they dont protrude past my chest. I mean, I like to eat. (almost)anything, anytime. but I do plan on losing the spare tire soon. my other six pack is in the fridge, sierra nevada pale ale baby...

 

[curling]

Sorry, curling.... I didn't realise your age.

Not that you're REALLY old or anything, but I guess it's not as much of a priority when you're in your mid 30's as it is in your early 20's (as I am)....

Thanks for capitolizing "REALLY". It is weird getting older but at least I still look young.

.... I guess in that case, dieting really hard and doing cardio like crazy and working your abs.... probably isn't all that necessarry. You seem committed to keeping your bodyfat at reasonable levels, which is what's important really.... not having the 6-pack.

Enock and the Peoples Chance,

thanks for understanding where I am coming from. Just from the other posts it seems alot of people don't like working abs either. But just for the heck of it I am going to get a six pack(not beer) before next summer just so I can say I did it(especially since you can show it off at the beach and the lake) but for now I am going to enjoy my turkey and dressing during the Holidays.

 

[Bikini Mod]

REALLY OLD?!

WTF?!

I guess that makes me ANCIENT!!!

HAHAHHHAEHAEHhaehahehaoheaoahohahahahaaa

Curling, I hear ya completely! You have to do what makes you happy. Granted is it nice to have a guy who is the "total package"? Of course, but I have NEVER EVER pressured any guy I was with about his physique. If he was into training when we met, then it was cool. If he had NEVER seen the inside of a gym then that was cool too. For me, it is about sooooo much more than being with the biggest, most ripped guy.

I just went on a date with a bodybuilder who had won SEVERAL shows.... higher level and guess what? HE WAS A TOTAL ASS!
I have also been with men who don't know the difference between a bar and a barbell.... as long as they were secure with themselves and treated me with kindness, respect and didn't give me shit about my diet or training - it was cool.

Do I findHYUGE gues physically attractive. YES, but if a guy I was with was kind of like you... just wanting to stay in decent shape and not necessarily worried about competing, then that would be fine also!

It is all about confidence. I find nothing more appealing than a man who is self-confident and who treats me with kindness and respect.

 

[curling]

Bikini mom,

Now you got me curious about your age because I saw your pictures and you look young no way you could be older than me. But if you don't want to say how old you are that is cool too but I would still be very surprised if you were older than me(even though I am not old though. ) Also thanks for your understanding but I do want to get big and cut and I eventually will but I don't want to turn into a total ass either. And it will be probably just during the summer months when you can wear shorts.

I have seen some big dudes that don't handle being huge well. I think they had a small ego before they even started working out and now that they are big that is all they have. My cousin is good size and man he wants to fight everybody especially when he is juicing. Where I on the other hand turn to loving instead of fighting when I am on alot a test.

Oh and I have been meaning to ask you about your stomach. You're name is bikinimom so using my extreme deductive reason makes me think you have had some kids. Anyway, how did you loose your birth pooch(I guess that's what you call it) after you had the kids? I have heard from some women that is extremely hard to loose. So I am curious to see what your ab routine was. Because if you could lose that on it I could defenitely get a six pack from following what you did.

 

[Punschkrapfen]

ab exercises don't bring you a sixpack anyway. it is all in the diet. But if to have to starve yourself to get it, you won't have it for a long time. you have to come up with a way of getting a low amout of bodyfat "automatically".
I enjoy eating also. But there is no point in eating big amounts of food or fatty food. I constantly look for the satisfaction of eating when i am really hungry, not just when having some appetite or there is some social gathering where people eat. I try to wait every time to get as hungry as possible to maximize the taste of food.
This is not the best way to get huge, but i've managed to hold on to a sixpack for some 3 years now, and this is very satisfactory, because i've been fat all my life before.
But because i've managed to do this, i think that other people even with the worst genes can achieve permanent low amounts of bodyfat without starving themselves.
And i try to eat nothing in the evening, even if i am hungry. Like i usually eat the last meal at 4 pm. I need 2 hrs less sleep with an empty stomach.

 

[Bikini Mod]

ab exercises don't bring you a sixpack anyway. it is all in the diet.

How true, HOW TRUE!

Thank you for your kind compliment curling and I do not mind revealing my age at all. Unfortunately, in my line of work I HAVE TO LIE though. I am 34 years old and I have four little girls.

I NEVER had a washboard before kids and my body was "eh" at best. I always worked out (if you could call jumping around until you are about to pass out "working out") - didn't learn to appreciate the true power that comes from iron until the first time I walked into a sweaty, seedy bodybuilding SHITHOLE when I was about 19 yrs old. GOD, WAS I EMBARRASSED! Seeing all of those big sweaty guys, grunting and fucking heaving just busting out of their tanks.... wait a minute, now this sounds more like a Between the Sheets thread LOL! Anyways, I got tired of yo-yo bullshit and being soft. I wanted to have a bubble but and hamstrings, pecs and bis...and a back, always wanted a wide back (yes, I was ill at a very young age, hehehhee). But I did NOT get the "diet" part until MUCH LATER.... actually, not until about 2/3 years ago when I decided that I wanted to try and compete.... but I digress.

I was able to achieve a flat stomach even after 2 kids. It wasn't TOTALLY flat, my genetics gave me that soft little belly that some guys dig on a girl. I HATED IT! But the third DESTROYED ME. After the fourth I had so much loose skin that REGARDLESS of the fact that I was like 108# SOAKING WET (I am truly 5' 3 1/2") I couldn't hide it even in a one piece bathing suit. It would all bulge out from underneath. Thousands of situps and all the weighted ab work in the world WOULD NOT CORRECT THIS NEGATIVE EFFECT OF PREGNANCY.... not to mention the fact that there was a hyuge gap as the fascia (tissue that your muscles connect to) had been so stretched that there were MAJOR gaps between my abs.

So at the age of 30 at about 104# (had very low bf because I didn't eat all that much - BAD, BAD VERY BAD - and lifted and cario-ed like a nut... I couldn't figure out why my progess was so ssllllllooooww and I wasn't getting any stronger ....DUH!!!) I had an abdominoplasty = tummy tuck. The doc sutured up my abdominal wall and removed AN ENTIRE FOOT OF LOOSE SKIN from my abdomen. (Liposuction is also commonly done at this time, but I had such low bf that this was not necessary to provide dramatic results). Because I had tried for so long and worked so hard to "lose that pooch" (which I would NEVER have been able to) my abs were so tight and hard that the results were TRULY DRAMATIC to say the least. Yes, I had a FLAT stomach... but no sixpack!!!

My doc told me to be extremely careful with abdominal work. As a matter of fact she questioned my motives. I would NEVER have to do another situp again as long as I did not get fat..... Could you imagine that? She thought that I had rocks in my head because I was not satisfied to have a flat stomach - I WANTED A SIX PACK!!

Several months later I also had a mastopexy and implants (yes, ma titties are fake hehehehee) and it was about 1 1/2 years later that I wanted to try and get into competitive bodybuilding.

What can I say.... I am mental.

I got the six pack the old fashioned way - I EARNED IT. I simply ate better, did weighted ab work to grow the muscles (as you do with the rest of the muscles in your body) then I did cardio and altered my diet to have them show through.

Now it is almost a MUST to maintain the size and strength of my abs as they have permanent sutures in them, if the muscles atrophy too much then I run the risk of busting them (which already happened to me after a week on the couch when I got the flu REALLY BADLY about 3 years ago).

For growth, I feel it is enough to work your abs every other workout. Do two exersizes, 3/4 sets of each. For added intensity - superset the two. Try to do one weighted movement and then the other w/out. Once your abs are developed you only have to maintain them... I mean how big do you want them to be? For maintainance once every 5 days or so is enough.

 

[curling]

See I knew it you are younger than me but not by much. Man, you busted ass or should I say abs on what you accomplished. Nice work. Four girls huh? Ya'll couldn't have a boy either huh? We tried twice and both times girls. So we gave up. Man, I feel sorry for you when they hit puberty it is HELL(got a 15 year old that I had to put in private school). Anyway once again great work.

 

[Test boy]

I'm just not into abs unless someone is a genetic freak and has extremely unusual and attractive abs. I NEVER worry about them. I used to get compliments on my stomach and it really didn't do much for me.

 

[Frackal]

hahhaha

This thread is funny.

I work abs at least once a week very intensely. My lower abs are stronger than supersizeme's panty odors and it's what keeps my lower back healing up, strong abs are fucking important. Plus, all you non-married guys know that chicks dig them, I have a six pack whether I'm bulking or cutting.

 

[Grizzly]

hey supersizeme, it's soda popinski!!!!! (isn't it?) as for the question, yeah i'm al little lazy too when it comes to abs, but thats more because of the fact that I have a back condition.
but i can see where youre coming from (curling)

You know what? A "back condition" is usually due to weak abs.

As for the original question... Yeah, I slack on abs, too. I can't bring myself to do them when I can barely walk from training "real" muscles. Plus, having once been a fat ass I have a bunch of loose skin that obscures them anyway. Oh well, I guess I will just have to try them evil steroid thingies and gain 50lbs of muscle to tighten my skin.