Gaining muscle + defining abs

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  • ForecasterJason
    ForecasterJason Posts: 2,577 Member
    lithan2 wrote: »
    What is surplus???
    A calorie surplus is additional calories not needed for weight maintenance. In other words, the term is used to describe consuming enough calories to gain weight.

  • KeepGood
    KeepGood Posts: 386 Member
    Totally liking this thread :smile:

    Question concerning ab exercise. Since starting my gain mission I've gained slight definition to my abs (4 pack-ish, upper abs). It's slowly disappearing as I'm gaining weight (as expected) so I'm happy with that but I really want to work them, keep the development happening. I've been doing leg raises and using a core wheel. While at the time of the exercises it feels like I'm having my guts kicked in, shortly after I don't feel like I've worked my abs at all. The rest of me is tingling at the end of the session.

    What do you guys and gals (equality :smile: ) think are good core exercises that will get the abs screaming for mercy? :smile:
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    KeepGood wrote: »
    Totally liking this thread :smile:

    Question concerning ab exercise. Since starting my gain mission I've gained slight definition to my abs (4 pack-ish, upper abs). It's slowly disappearing as I'm gaining weight (as expected) so I'm happy with that but I really want to work them, keep the development happening. I've been doing leg raises and using a core wheel. While at the time of the exercises it feels like I'm having my guts kicked in, shortly after I don't feel like I've worked my abs at all. The rest of me is tingling at the end of the session.

    What do you guys and gals (equality :smile: ) think are good core exercises that will get the abs screaming for mercy? :smile:

    Please start your own thread for this question
  • KeepGood
    KeepGood Posts: 386 Member
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    KeepGood wrote: »
    Totally liking this thread :smile:

    Question concerning ab exercise. Since starting my gain mission I've gained slight definition to my abs (4 pack-ish, upper abs). It's slowly disappearing as I'm gaining weight (as expected) so I'm happy with that but I really want to work them, keep the development happening. I've been doing leg raises and using a core wheel. While at the time of the exercises it feels like I'm having my guts kicked in, shortly after I don't feel like I've worked my abs at all. The rest of me is tingling at the end of the session.

    What do you guys and gals (equality :smile: ) think are good core exercises that will get the abs screaming for mercy? :smile:

    Please start your own thread for this question

    Roger
  • Cahgetsfit
    Cahgetsfit Posts: 1,912 Member
    my husband eats like *kitten*, doesn't diet and looks like this:

    oppzs7w2ip1l.jpg

    I on the other hand don't have the luxury of ridiculous genetics.

    By eat like *kitten* I don't mean that he has mcdonalds every day or anything like that, but he doesn't have to watch his diet eats rice, beans and meat, fried stuff, hamburgers, cheese, pizza whatever...

    He does, however, work out every day either doing capoeira or on days off going to the gym.

    in the 12 years I've known him he's never lost his 6 pack.
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    Cahgetsfit wrote: »
    my husband eats like *kitten*, doesn't diet and looks like this:

    oppzs7w2ip1l.jpg

    I on the other hand don't have the luxury of ridiculous genetics.

    By eat like *kitten* I don't mean that he has mcdonalds every day or anything like that, but he doesn't have to watch his diet eats rice, beans and meat, fried stuff, hamburgers, cheese, pizza whatever...

    He does, however, work out every day either doing capoeira or on days off going to the gym.

    in the 12 years I've known him he's never lost his 6 pack.

    Your husband burns less than he eats. What he eats doesn't matter as much as how many calories he consumes vs how many he burns.

    Capoeira is crazy demanding and probably burns a lot of calories. Plus he's got decent muscle mass so that also adds to the amount of calories he burns.

    He may have good genetics, but don't dismiss the work he puts in.

    When I was boxing, I ate whatever I wanted and had a six pack too. On the injured list, I need to be picky in order to stay lean. (I still eat crap foods, just less volume).

    It kinda drives me crazy when a physique that is as nice as that is dismissed as purely good genetics. Not true.

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