28/07/2025
Abdominals ❤
👉💥I am asked about abdominals on the weekly!
- How do I get abs?
- What do I do for abs?
- I train abs every day and still do not have abs!?
👉I answer these below.
👌How I started abs:
I once was duped in the 90's by the Ab-Flex machine!
To be quite honest it was pretty cool 90's gadget!
❓Anyone else use the Ab-Flex?
👉Did it work?
Who knows, I was chubby, eating like s**t, but was able to push that red meter all the way out like an ab boss! Still no abs though!
❤ How do you see your abs?
If I asked the world to vote on "How do you see your abs?"
❓What would they choose?
#1. You get abs by doing tons of sit-ups, crunches, weighted machine crunches. Bet!
OR
#2. You get abs by focusing on your nutrition, training, cardio and lifestyle.
👉If you said #1, you would be 5% right!
This is what 95% of today's gym goers do, they hop onto today's Ab-Flex machines in their new fancy gym and go to work, but see no results. (but hey, they can do the stack on that machine like a champ!). 💥You have been Ab-Flex Duped!
Ok, I too did the fancy abdominal Ab-Flex crap, tons of sit-ups that just ended up giving my hip flexors a massive workout and some back pain...oh well, we all tried right!
❤👉💪Here is what works:
✅You need to have your nutrition in order!
🔥The old saying holds truth, "Abs are made in the kitchen".
✅We all have abs people!
- Yes you can make your abs stronger with exercises for sure!
✅Technique is paramount here with training abdominals!
✅Nutrition is everything!
No nutrition, all that hard work in the gym will not show!
*A caloric deficit is needed to get you lean to see your abs.
✅Cardio, yes cardio can help in your caloric deficit.
🛑too much cardio, combined with bad nutrition, will not burn that tummy off! Sadly, you will burn off your muscles and hold the fat on your body for survival! 😥The term is called *Skinny Fat.
✅Lifestyle: yes 100%,
By changing a few ways you live to support your nutrition, training and cardio will help your abs start to show.
👉Now my photo story:
😥Photo 1, age 24:
Duped by Ab-Flex and ate like s**t. Plus drank a lot of booze. Never went to bed until way past midnight.
💥 Photo 2, age 38:
Lifestyle was lived to it's fullest, training as a Pro Natural Bodybuilder.
The ONLY abs I did was 1 month out of my competition show.
I did Hanging Leg raises 2-3 sets of 8-12 reps at a slow controlled tempo.
Why? Cause I could see them working lol. Felt good to get a pump in the abs, but I already had strong abs from all my compound lifts in training.
💪Photo 3, age 40:
My first Masters show at 40 years old.
Again living and rocking lifestyle.
Abs = Only hanging leg raises close to my competition shows.
Nutrition and training were paramount.
I did way less cardio here at 40+ and focused more on training, recovery and nutrition.
🔥Photos 4/5, age 50 today: (51 is August!)
I am still training 100%.
Lifestyle over the last few years has been to gain some lean muscles mass, improve sleep & mobility, while getting my health optimized for 50+ years old.
Cardio: just walking and some laps with Jaxen.
👉Do I do any strict abdominals right now?
- No, not directly.
- My abs are trained in my compound lifts like, Back squats, RDL's, Deadlifts, Back extensions, Nordic Curls, Overhead pressing.....list goes on. (Lifting uses abs!)
- I do train my mobility and my low back a lot more these days to prep me for being a senior in my future!
- I want to be fully functional, silver and kicking ass as a old man!
- I want to feel and look optimized, this takes a new lifestyle approach for me.
- More recovery is needed these days.
- Nutrition wise, I am eating more than I ever have! 🔥Seriously people, I eat a ton of food.
💥Food is energy for the body, for recovery, for vitality, eat up that real food to feel optimized!
🛑Dieting all the time you just feel like s**t!☠
👉I will say them one last time:
Nutrition, Training Program, Cardio and Lifestyle.
🔥🚀But Chad, I do not care to see my abs.
OK great, but I know you want a slimmer waistline!!!!
👉✅Now if you just want to get trim, everything I spoke about above matters 100%. They ONLY small difference, you get to have more flexibility in your lifestyle plan.
💖Hope this paints a better picture as these "Abs" questions are asked the most!
