epic trying to avoid showing your picture.
Your physique doesn't have anything to do with any ab routine recommendations because you are afraid to show it. You cannot back up your theories or justify your attitude of superiority. You try to appear clever trying to own Serge on his thread, but you appear obnoxious and rude instead.
It doesn't matter where you post slander against Steve Reeves, it's bad on any page and doesn't change that you're the source of it no matter where you put it. When I post pictures and information, some people thank me because some of them are family photos that won't be seen in magazines. Only you call it hero worshipping that lacks critical thinking. You're only response is to be a smart mouth and tell me to leave.
The point was about being respectful. You didn't get it, Slaveboy...that's why you are a slave and always will be one...unless you change your attitude. It's up to you. If you're gonna be a pain in the a$$, you could at least be funny.
epic continued trying to shift discussion away from serges ab recommendations
also its obvious you intentionally misread every post I make, im not calling your posting of rare pics hero worship, im calling your uncritical thinking regarding anything that has to do with your ironage heroes for hero worship.
as for my physique..: many many guys have gotten amazing ab development without doing 1000reps of situps (pointless for a bodybuilder). and just working abs 1-3 times a week with limited amounts of sets is enough.
so you have serge with great abs doing 1000s of situps and you have lots of other guys with great abs doing far less ab work.
= which proves you dont need to do 1000s of situps. end of story.
dont mix up serges great ab shape with the two other "ab dimensions" : visibility (low fat %) and ab mass (thru heavy deads and squats etc..or direct weighted ab work).
if you look at these three ab dimensions you will realize that ab mass is the only one you can directly change with ab training
(because low fat % should come from caloric restriction and doing reg cardio..not situp cardio which is highly inefficient......and the abs genetic structure is something that you are born with, unless your looking to widen your obliques..which no bb wants)
so the main question is how do you affect ab mass?
answer: let indirect stimulation from heavy compound exercise take care of ab stimulation or add direct ab training.
how do you train a muscle directly when you wanna add mass?
you do it by progressively increasing weight using 20 (in general...certainly not 1000reps) or less reps per set. and if you dont wanna add more mass you dont increase the weights.
conclusion: doing 1000s of reps of situps hasnt anything to do with ab mass (the only ab dimension you can affect by weight training, as weight training is not an efficient cardio method)
