Getting a Visible Six-Pack: fruit, blankets and ... - Fitness Newspaper

Published on October 22, 2012 by FASTERSally ????? No Comments

In a previous article I wrote about how getting great abs is more about what you put in your mouth than what you do in the gym:

?You can perform crunches or hanging leg raises ?till the cows come home but if those great abs you?re building are covered by a layer of fat, you?re still not going to have a visible six-pack or a flat, toned tummy.?

HOWEVER, while it?s true that your body fat needs to be low enough for ab definition to be visible, it?s also very important to realise that,?even if there?s barely an ?inch to pinch? on your belly,?if your abdominal muscles are small you might still not have a visible six-pack unless you get REALLY lean?.

Imagine, if you will, six small oranges and six grapefruits ? the oranges represent the ?mini? abs, and the grapefruit are the ?supersize? abs (to be fair, melons would have been a better example of supersize abs but I didn?t want to encourage your minds to wander)?

Now, both the oranges and the grapefruit, when viewed ?naked? make a pretty good six-pack:

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If we now cover these abs with a very thin blanket (representing VERY low body fat levels), both the mini six-pack (oranges), and the supersize six-pack (grapefruit)?are still clearly visible:

However, when we cover the ?abs? with a thick blanket (representing a low, but not extremely low, level of body fat), only the supersize abs?(grapefruit) are clearly visible as a six-pack, and the mini abs?(oranges) resemble more of a ?toned? tummy.

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So what?s the point of all this talk of fruit and blankets?

Well, if it?s a six-pack you?re after (rather than ?just? a flat, toned tummy) then you either have to swap your thick blanket for a thin blanket (and achieve a very low body fat percentage of somewhere around <10% for men and <15% for women) OR you can try to increase the size of your abs.

As I?ve said before, the size of your fruit will be irrelevant if they are covered with a duvet ? if you?re carrying too much extra fat around your midsection, even having supersized abs won?t give you a visible six-pack and the work you need to do is in the kitchen!

However, if your body fat is quite low and you have a flat tummy but no six-pack, it?s quite possible that a bit of focussed work on the abdominals could be all you need to get the chiseled midsection you desire and upgrade your oranges to grapefruit!

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