What makes abs look different?

The second one looks freaking nasty on a female. She's either on steroids or a ton of bodybuilding supplements. The first woman looks a lot healthier.

Rubish! She is an Olympic swimmer, with a great physic and a grueling training routine. Obviously her years of training, swimming and most likely special diet, has produce those abs. Yes, low body fat, good genetics and excellent conditioning.

Dara Grace Torres is an American former competition swimmer and world record-holder who is a twelve-time Olympic medalist. Wikipedia
Born: April 15, 1967 (age 46), Beverly Hills
Height: 6' 0" (1.82 m)
Weight: 149.9 lbs (68 kg)
Spouse: Itzhak Shasha (m. 2003–2004)
Children: Tessa Grace
Parents: Edward Torres, Marylu Kauder

Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967) is an American former competition swimmer and world record-holder who is a twelve-time Olympic medalist. Torres is the first and only swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008), and, at age 41, is the oldest swimmer ever to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 50-meter freestyle, 4×100-meter medley relay, and 4×100-meter freestyle relay, and won silver medals in all three events.[2]

Torres has won twelve Olympic medals (four gold, four silver, four bronze), one of three women with the most Olympic women's swimming medals. She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics when, at age 33, she was the oldest member of the 2000 U.S. Olympic Swim Team. She has also won at least one medal in each of the five Olympics in which she has competed, making her one of only a handful of Olympians to earn medals in five different Games.[3]

On August 1, 2007, at age 40 (just 15 months after giving birth to her first child), she won gold in the 100-meter freestyle at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, her fourteenth national championship. On August 4, she broke her own American record in the 50-meter freestyle, 26 years after she first set the American record at just 15 years old.

Thank you but how do you work out your deficit? sorry I'm new to all this

Set your account to 1 lb per week and eat back 50% of your exercise calories or pm me and i can run some numbers and set you up.

The second one looks freaking nasty on a female. She's either on steroids or a ton of bodybuilding supplements. The first woman looks a lot healthier.

This is an ignorant statement. Please don't body shame here.

Thank you but how do you work out your deficit? sorry I'm new to all this

Set your account to 1 lb per week and eat back 50% of your exercise calories or pm me and i can run some numbers and set you up.

will do thank you

Body fat, muscle density and size, genetics , water/salt

Bettie Page.

I've only seen it shown with male body builders and athletes, but if we can presume it's the same in women then 'how many' abs you have is genetic. Some people only have a 4 pack (this means when lean enough and developed enough to show what they've got). Some have a 6 and some an 8. They say there are 5 packs, but I never can spot them myself.

For me, I don't know what my lower abs do (look like 1 or 2, I mean). But my obliques show at a pretty high BF, and next come my top 2 abs. I think I have 4 up there above my navel, or either I have those deep oblique attachments causing what I see. The line down the middle is not strong on mine, oddly (since I carry relatively little fat up top). I don't know how lean I'll get, so I don't know exactly what I've got, lol.

Back in the day when I was a silly young teen, I thought the two lines down my middle meant I had a wide fat roll down my belly! So many of the models back then (all of them?) had that flat, flat look and here I was with two obvious solid lines that I couldn't figure out. Sad! I'm so glad we see more pictures of women with big abs nowadays. There really are all kinds of bellies.