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jacfoote · November 2016

Would love some advice! I'm 5'7", 130 lbs. I don't feel as though I need to lose weight except for my stomach which has always been my problem area. I eat around 1450 calories a day and workout at least 3 times a week with some cardio but mainly boxing and heavy lifting. I'd LOVE to see some definition in my stomach but I'm just not sure what to do from here to achieve that. Any advice?

quiksylver296 · November 2016

Abs are mostly about body fat percentage. Do you religiously use a food scale and log everything you consume?

GauchoMark · November 2016

Yes, you need a fairly low body fat to see abs. The lower the better (for visibility).

BUT - if you aren't specifically training your abs, your BF has to get a lot lower than it does if you have large muscles. Boxing and heavy lifting doesn't really sound like you are working abs specifically. You need to lift heavy with your abs 2-3 times a week and it will help.

Here are a few of my favorites:
https://www.jefit.com/exercises/79/Cable-Crunch
https://www.jefit.com/exercises/786/Cable-Judo-Flip
https://www.jefit.com/exercises/975/Decline-Bench-Leg-Raise-with-Hip-Thrust
https://www.jefit.com/exercises/1273/Parallel-Bar-Leg-Raise

Pick 3, and do about 4 sets of 20 as heavy as you can on three different days and those abs will start peaking out more.

jacfoote · November 2016

quiksylver296 wrote: »

Abs are mostly about body fat percentage. Do you religiously use a food scale and log everything you consume?

I stopped logging for a few months but have been logging religiously for the past few weeks. I don't use a food scale but I have one so I will start tomorrow to see if that helps!

jacfoote · November 2016

GauchoMark wrote: »

Yes, you need a fairly low body fat to see abs. The lower the better (for visibility).

BUT - if you aren't specifically training your abs, your BF has to get a lot lower than it does if you have large muscles. Boxing and heavy lifting doesn't really sound like you are working abs specifically. You need to lift heavy with your abs 2-3 times a week and it will help.

Here are a few of my favorites:
https://www.jefit.com/exercises/79/Cable-Crunch
https://www.jefit.com/exercises/786/Cable-Judo-Flip
https://www.jefit.com/exercises/975/Decline-Bench-Leg-Raise-with-Hip-Thrust
https://www.jefit.com/exercises/1273/Parallel-Bar-Leg-Raise

Pick 3, and do about 4 sets of 20 as heavy as you can on three different days and those abs will start peaking out more.

Thanks for this!! Will check out these links tonight and try to implement some!

canadianlbs · November 2016

GauchoMark wrote: »

Yes, you need a fairly low body fat to see abs.

yeah . . . sortof-kindof. lower the clearer is true, but i for-instance am 135 right now at 5'3". you couldn't play any zydeco riffs on my abs, but people who see them already know more is going on than just me slobbing my way through my day. i have the three-sections look going; and then there's the whole thing of having your boobs enter a room before your gut does.

you can't see them on me

but i think you'd still know they were there.

so ime it's a continuum. and even if you start at the far end of the continuum, being on it is still a different look aesthetically than not being on it at all.

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