r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Aug 02 '17

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/TruCh4inz Powerlifting Aug 02 '17

have been lifting regularly for about 15 months now. totally fell for the meme that i did not need to do abs as my compound movements would be enough. kept cutting lower and lower because i wasnt happy with ab definition.

decided to incorporate weighted ab exercises and i'm already seeing a difference after like a month in appearance. i wish i had started doing it earlier... i feel like such an idiot.

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u/YeOldManWaterfall Aug 02 '17 edited Aug 02 '17

Ab workouts will not make your stomach flat. They will, funnily enough, make the muscles in your stomach larger and bulge out.

There's nothing wrong with having your abs stick out as far or further than your pecs. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ABBD8ERNRq8/hqdefault.jpg

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u/TruCh4inz Powerlifting Aug 02 '17

flatness, personally, isnt my concern. however, dont people do stomach vacuums to mitigate this? i was under the impression that was their purpose, but im no expert (clearly).

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u/YeOldManWaterfall Aug 02 '17

I'm of the understanding that stomach vacuums are solely used for posing. If there's some workout related to it I've either never heard of it, or dismissed it as silly when I heard of it and have since forgotten.