Are abs made in the kitchen?

Kitchen.
When I get abs do do lift plus daily cardio but I do that year round. The only time I get abs is when I get my diet under strict control along with working out. So I have to say kitchen.

This most recent time I got lean I NEVER did any ab work and I have the best abs I've ever had. This is because I'm a little leaner than I ever was.

There was a time when I was lifting/cardio, walking at least 2 hrs daily (lived in Boston), was taking MMA class every other day (boxing one day, grappling 1 day etc..)and often doing morning cardio then weights at 6pm and then 2 hr class then walk 40 min home through the city. Basically training and walking all the time. I was eating clean but I was having cheat meals every couple of days (what I do in summer months) and I STILL was slowly losing my abs.
By late September I had almost zero 6-pack. Then I'd bulk up and in January start the cutting phase again.

Point is even though I was burning all sorts of calories, eating pizza and having sweets (as an adult in my early 30's) every few days was still too much. My body did not need pizza and dessert and candy.
It was a great lesson in how much of our modern diet is overkill.

... to train them.

stanmann571 wrote: »

lemurcat12 wrote: »

You can exercise your way out of a bad or mediocre diet, so long as you control calories or do sufficient exercise that even with a bad diet you don't overeat.

Of course, if by a bad diet one means "more calories than one is burning," then it's a tautology.

You can certainly outrun a twinkie or a Bacon cheeseburger.

It's unlikely that you can outrun a box of twinkies and 4 bacon cheeseburgers

Here is your chance to try something similar, a bike race you can win by eating enough donuts to erase your time.

http://tourdedonut.org

fb47 wrote: »

Like any muscles, you need to develop them through training in order to make them get thicker and stronger....of course, if you have a high body fat%, they will likely hide underneath the fat. The more years of experience at the gym, the more your abs can pop out a little bit through higher body fat % (up to a certain point of course). Here's a good example of what I am talking about:

It's hard to really tell without a side shot but no way is dude on the lower right at about 10% BF. Even without developed musculature, you should still be able to see some of the underlying structure, ribs, solar plexus, and likely some veins.