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Getbig Bodybuilding Boards => Training Q&A => Topic started by: GoneAway on August 26, 2006, 04:49:11 AM
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That Art Atwood thread got me thinking. I want to do whatever it takes to keep the waist as small as possible.
What are the best ways of preventing a huge and unreparible waistline? Also, what are the best ways to reduce the size of the waist when looking at it front on? Thanks for any help.
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no such thing as spot reduction!!!!!
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That Art Atwood thread got me thinking. I want to do whatever it takes to keep the waist as small as possible.
What are the best ways of preventing a huge and unreparible waistline? Also, what are the best ways to reduce the size of the waist when looking at it front on? Thanks for any help.
Get wider on top. It's all about illusion. ;)
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Get wider on top. It's all about illusion. ;)
Thats exactlywhat I used to be able to do. I'd have to be 4' wide now tohit that illusion
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Eat healthy fats for 100% of your fat intake.
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Alright, I wasn't sure about spot reduction. Thing is, how do these pros come in ripped to shreds but have such huge waistlines? Wouldn't they have very low bodyfat all over, thus reducing the waist from side to side?
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Alright, I wasn't sure about spot reduction. Thing is, how do these pros come in ripped to shreds but have such huge waistlines? Wouldn't they have very low bodyfat all over, thus reducing the waist from side to side?
I hate the bbers with fat waists. they look like shit. I think it is from growth hormone. No one with a fat waist should be able to win a competition, they look fuckin horrible.
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I hate the bbers with fat waists. they look like shit. I think it is from growth hormone. No one with a fat waist should be able to win a competition, they look fuckin horrible.
True. but freaky is the look right now right?
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True. but freaky is the look right now right?
Even freaky fat waists?
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Even freaky fat waists?
I donno man it confuses me. I always thought it was about porportions being right. not a 48" waist,24" arms,19"neck,22"calves thats just coming in all goofed up to bring the "freakiest" package and worst of all thats whats winning! (at the O mind you)
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I donno man it confuses me. I always thought it was about porportions being right. not a 48" waist,24" arms,19"neck,22"calves thats just coming in all goofed up to bring the "freakiest" package and worst of all thats whats winning! (at the O mind you)
Is it from growth hormone that makes their waists so fat?
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I hate the bbers with fat waists. they look like shit. I think it is from growth hormone. No one with a fat waist should be able to win a competition, they look fuckin horrible.
more often it's from eating shitloads of food... some pros will eat over 8000 cals per day i nthe offseason.... that stretches the shit out of the gut
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Don't forget the medical shit these people taking.
It makes the organs actually grow.
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Don't use excess weight when doing abs! Muscle grows when stimulated by resistive force, duh. Want bigger abs and a wider waist? This is a sure fire way to do it. Just stick to contractions with bodyweight.
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GH makes all muscles grow, including those in the waist area, thus the bigger waists.
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Alright, I wasn't sure about spot reduction. Thing is, how do these pros come in ripped to shreds but have such huge waistlines? Wouldn't they have very low bodyfat all over, thus reducing the waist from side to side?
Isn't it that genetics define where fat is stored? Well according to what I've read somewhere....
Such that some are predisposed to store fat in the waist... Too bad I hope That isn't my case.
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Isn't it that genetics define where fat is stored? Well according to what I've read somewhere....
Such that some are predisposed to store fat in the waist... Too bad I hope That isn't my case.
:):):)
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has to do with gender too ii think. women are more prone to store fat in thighs and butt and men its waist.
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there are exceptions though
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Watch you diet. Don't overtrain abs. If you can't see or feel your abs do some light weight to bring them up. But once you have them train light.
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Watch you diet. Don't overtrain abs. If you can't see or feel your abs do some light weight to bring them up. But once you have them train light.
I only do flat/incline/decline to stress the abs, no weights. Is that bad?
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I only do incline/decline to stress the abs, no weights. Is that bad?
nope its good.
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nope its good.
agreed... abs are brought up by doing cardio and dieting, not by crunching a ton
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agreed... abs are brought up by doing cardio and dieting, not by crunching a ton
Wouldn't using a weight to make it harder be the same as using incline/decline? They both make it harder, so wouldn't they produce the same looking result?
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A good deadlift or squat makes your abs do more work than all those crunches together.
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A good deadlift or squat makes your abs do more work than all those crunches together.
I agree-- it's even better than doing the plank for abs---- and you hit lower body/legs at the same time! ::)
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The ab's are a stablization factor when doing squats and DL's. They act as a counter balance in concert with the lower back. The core area or link between the lower and upper body is here. Though the ab's do work hard in their supporting efforts, a direct ab exercise (upper & lower) would be required to take full advantage of this very powerfull muscle group. Working the abs, hard and heavy (along with the lower back), can make squating and DL'ing take full advantage of their greater potentional. Heavy ab work will not greatly increase the size of the waist. The internal organs do grow, just as the muscles do, giving that bloated belly look to a lot of the Pro's. It's not from exercising the ab's or over eating. Just an incorrect chemical balance of HGH, GH,'roids taken all at the same time.
Might try lying on a bench, with the legs drawn up and held down. Hold a light bar (at first) overhead as if doing a BP. Now sit up from this starting position to the top of the situp. The bar should be directly overhead at the finish of the lift. Those cheap ab wheels that you can get a Wal-Mart are very effective in working the total ad wall. They are not a toy. When the reps become easier try starting the exercise from a bend over standing position...ab killer. Princess L had a pic of someone doing leg swings which is also a good way to work the low ab wall. Fell free to work the abs very heavy and very hard, that's what they were designed for. You waist will not look like Coleman's unless your on drugs or eat like a pig.Good Luck.
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Alot of the big waists you see on pros is from gh. The intestines is where there happen to be the most igf-1 receptors in the body. Also lots of blood flow.
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Try doing what "DAVID BARBARIAN PAUL" does.I bet you couldn't do one rep.It's unhuman
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If your waist grows from eating alone - no drugs - is it possible to get it smaller through dieting, or is it irreversible?