Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 12:09     Subject: Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
If you drop your body fat low enough to have a 6 pack at 41, your face will age a decade. Not worth it.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 10:41     Subject: Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Getting abs is one thing. Keeping them is another. The times in my life when I had visible 6 pack abs that people would stop me and comment on at the beach, pool, gym, I was so strict with my diet. I didn’t indulge, I was just so focused on getting in shape that I found it easy to adhere to a stricter diet. Of course long term, that wasn’t sustainable, so I’m now comfortable with maybe 4 visible abs and a couple extra pounds .

Keep in mind only a few months a year are abs ever even on display. To me, it’s not worth the trade off of what you have to give up to have a ripped 6 pack of abs complete with the v cut at the bottom and obliques. It’s cutting out of most of what’s enjoyable for life for something almost nobody ever sees.


This!!!! And even when they do see it…so what? How is it worth being hungry all the time so that people see you at the pool and admire your abs for half a second?


Maybe I am crazy but for women no, you cannot tell what there stomach is like in clothes. Obviously in gym/running/working out and swimsuits.

Men you can tell in clothes I feel. Guys in shape know how to dress with abs.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 10:37     Subject: Re:Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm a strong and wiry 5'6, 115lbs. I do not have visible abs. Whether or not you will be able to see your abs at a very low body fat percentage depends on your genetics. I could probably get visible abs if I stayed militantly strict with my macros, and added distance running or a lot of HIIT. No thanks. I'll stick with my normal intuitive eating, weightlifting, walking, pilates, and yoga.

You could get visible abs by building abs.
Carido make for flat but ab-less tummy. You have to build those abs up with heavy weights to get them to buldge out and have that six-eight pack look.


I was 5’7 and 115 for a long time. Lifted and really worked on my abs. They never showed But I am skinny-fat. So no, visible abs just aren’t in the cards for some of us.


Heavy weighted situps, rope crunches, deadlifts, kettle work, etc. Anyone can build muscle, even ectomorphs.


You don’t seem to understand. I had muscle. My stomach when flexed was rock hard. It was under fat so abs don’t show. Really we have different bodies. You don’t understand mine.


I had this issue too and now I have abs. The problem is that you personally need to do more ab workouts so that your ab muscles are even bigger and will show under whatever fat you have, which I presume is not very much at 115 lbs. You don't have the "abs are built in the kitchen" problem. You have a "I need to do more ab exercises than others for them to show" problem.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 09:38     Subject: Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
Check out this podcast. this was her goal and she talks about how she did it and what really goes into getting visible abs. A lot of it comes down to how hard you are willing to work and how much you are willing to sacrifice nutrition wise to get there.

https://www.bicepsafterbabies.com/how-i-got-a-six-pack-and-how-you-can-too/
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 09:25     Subject: Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Getting abs is one thing. Keeping them is another. The times in my life when I had visible 6 pack abs that people would stop me and comment on at the beach, pool, gym, I was so strict with my diet. I didn’t indulge, I was just so focused on getting in shape that I found it easy to adhere to a stricter diet. Of course long term, that wasn’t sustainable, so I’m now comfortable with maybe 4 visible abs and a couple extra pounds .

Keep in mind only a few months a year are abs ever even on display. To me, it’s not worth the trade off of what you have to give up to have a ripped 6 pack of abs complete with the v cut at the bottom and obliques. It’s cutting out of most of what’s enjoyable for life for something almost nobody ever sees.


This!!!! And even when they do see it…so what? How is it worth being hungry all the time so that people see you at the pool and admire your abs for half a second?


I want to admire my abs and be impressed with my hard work for a couple of months. Then I’ll probably back off from that goal, gain 15 lbs back and still be impressed that I was able to get abs for the first time in my life.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 05:59     Subject: Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you become an endurance athlete and drop down to 20 grams of carb per day, maybe.


20g of carb per day would be a super weak ass endurance athlete.


Nope. I run marathons on less than that


Same. Do you have diabetes or some other issue?


Nope. I'm a binge eater. Zero carb is the only way I can keep my eating disorder under control.
Plus my running improved tremendously once I gave up carbs
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 05:22     Subject: Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
Anonymous wrote:Getting abs is one thing. Keeping them is another. The times in my life when I had visible 6 pack abs that people would stop me and comment on at the beach, pool, gym, I was so strict with my diet. I didn’t indulge, I was just so focused on getting in shape that I found it easy to adhere to a stricter diet. Of course long term, that wasn’t sustainable, so I’m now comfortable with maybe 4 visible abs and a couple extra pounds .

Keep in mind only a few months a year are abs ever even on display. To me, it’s not worth the trade off of what you have to give up to have a ripped 6 pack of abs complete with the v cut at the bottom and obliques. It’s cutting out of most of what’s enjoyable for life for something almost nobody ever sees.


This!!!! And even when they do see it…so what? How is it worth being hungry all the time so that people see you at the pool and admire your abs for half a second?
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 04:58     Subject: Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
According to my trainer, it’s largely genetics, like where you carry your fat etc, and diet.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2024 21:45     Subject: Re:Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Thanks for all of the input. I guess the answer is maybe. I’ll work on it for a year and see where I get.

I never expected to become a runner when I did either. Several years ago I couldn’t even run a mile but after a while I was running 20 miles on my long run days.

Maybe I’ll remember to come back and update.

How did you develop your running program?


It was a little weird. My cousin wanted to start running and so I just went along with her. She is shorter than I am and was less fit so for me the program was very slow and steady. Not ever pushing too hard kept me from any real injuries. She was the engine, I just went along for the runs and ended up getting really good at it.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2024 20:55     Subject: Re:Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm a strong and wiry 5'6, 115lbs. I do not have visible abs. Whether or not you will be able to see your abs at a very low body fat percentage depends on your genetics. I could probably get visible abs if I stayed militantly strict with my macros, and added distance running or a lot of HIIT. No thanks. I'll stick with my normal intuitive eating, weightlifting, walking, pilates, and yoga.

You could get visible abs by building abs.
Carido make for flat but ab-less tummy. You have to build those abs up with heavy weights to get them to buldge out and have that six-eight pack look.


I was 5’7 and 115 for a long time. Lifted and really worked on my abs. They never showed But I am skinny-fat. So no, visible abs just aren’t in the cards for some of us.


Heavy weighted situps, rope crunches, deadlifts, kettle work, etc. Anyone can build muscle, even ectomorphs.


You don’t seem to understand. I had muscle. My stomach when flexed was rock hard. It was under fat so abs don’t show. Really we have different bodies. You don’t understand mine.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2024 20:34     Subject: Re:Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm a strong and wiry 5'6, 115lbs. I do not have visible abs. Whether or not you will be able to see your abs at a very low body fat percentage depends on your genetics. I could probably get visible abs if I stayed militantly strict with my macros, and added distance running or a lot of HIIT. No thanks. I'll stick with my normal intuitive eating, weightlifting, walking, pilates, and yoga.

You could get visible abs by building abs.
Carido make for flat but ab-less tummy. You have to build those abs up with heavy weights to get them to buldge out and have that six-eight pack look.


I was 5’7 and 115 for a long time. Lifted and really worked on my abs. They never showed But I am skinny-fat. So no, visible abs just aren’t in the cards for some of us.


Heavy weighted situps, rope crunches, deadlifts, kettle work, etc. Anyone can build muscle, even ectomorphs.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2024 20:33     Subject: Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you become an endurance athlete and drop down to 20 grams of carb per day, maybe.


20g of carb per day would be a super weak ass endurance athlete.


Depends on what your body is used to.
If you had only been low to no carb for a month or so, never having done it before, sure you'd be weak and major headaches.

But if you low to no carb for several months to years, your body gets used to it.

The human body can make all the sugar it needs, you don't have to eat any at all. The body is designed to be pure carnivore.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2024 17:41     Subject: Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you become an endurance athlete and drop down to 20 grams of carb per day, maybe.


20g of carb per day would be a super weak ass endurance athlete.


Nope. I run marathons on less than that


Same. Do you have diabetes or some other issue?
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2024 17:22     Subject: Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you become an endurance athlete and drop down to 20 grams of carb per day, maybe.


20g of carb per day would be a super weak ass endurance athlete.


Nope. I run marathons on less than that
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2024 16:16     Subject: Is it possible to get visible abs in this scenario?
Anonymous wrote:If you become an endurance athlete and drop down to 20 grams of carb per day, maybe.


20g of carb per day would be a super weak ass endurance athlete.