#WHATS KEEPING ME FRO ABS HOW TO#
#WHATS KEEPING ME FRO ABS SKIN#

a few sets at the end of your real manly workout: chest and biceps? meanwhile, you blow off ab workouts or treat them as an afterthought. Or are you personality B - you're super strict on nutrition and you are very lean but you're still frustrated with your abs because they don't pop like you want them to. So which personality type are you? Are you toiling away like the person in the class with an hour of abs a day (utterly unnecessary and a total waste of time) but you still can't see enough abs because your skinfolds are too thick. It's like riding a bicycle - you can always get back on and ride even if you haven't ridden for years, once you know how.

#WHATS KEEPING ME FRO ABS HOW TO#

The good news is, after I learned how to get ripped just once, I owned it for life. It took me years before I figured it out.

I've always found it easy - the removal of the fat was the harder part for me. Some people find abdominal development difficult. Here's the true secret of exposing your abs and getting them to 'pop out' more: It's a combination of both - low body fat to EXPOSE aka UNCOVER them (reveal the muscle that's already under there), and training to DEVELOP the ab muscles, aka build what is not there yet. Personality B (which includes a lot of women) is the one who cranks out a 30 minute or even a one hour ab class every day, but they're not informed about the importance of low body fat for making your abs show - or they are, but they don't put the effort into nutrition so they never get their body fat percentage low enough. Personality A is the one with the mindset, 'As long as I get super lean, my abs will show,' so they blow off ab workouts or train them very minimally thinking they will have ab EXPOSURE and ab DEVELOPMENT just by being lean (dieting alone). I've discovered that there are two personality types with regards to getting visible abs. It's only true that without the proper diet ('kitchen'), the ab exercises by themselves are useless because well-developed abs can remain covered up with a layer of fat and it's possible to out-eat any amount of exercise.

#WHATS KEEPING ME FRO ABS SKIN#

The lower your body fat, the 'thinner' your skin will be (actually the 'skinfold,' which contains skin and subcutaneous fat), and the more your abdominal musculature will show through.ĭEVELOPING YOUR ABS - is a matter of training, and in that respect, the popular maxim 'abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym' is not entirely true. What I'm wondering is do I keep trying to lose more body fat to expose them, and will this level of body fat be sustainable, or do I increase my calories on the basis of increasing the muscle size of the abs to get them to pop out?Ī: EXPOSING YOUR ABS is a matter of getting very low body fat levels. I must also say that I've only been training them with a vengeance in the last 4 months. I'm starting to see the outline of my abs in certain lighting conditions, but they certainly don't pop out like a washboard. Q: Hey Tom, I've managed to get my body fat down to about 6.5% (at least according to my calipers). Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle - the Bible of Fat Loss

Whats keeping me fro abs