Unironically ensmallen your pects. They're not that large on Greecian and Roman statues, and people historically did not tend to have large pects. You can see this with Sandow and a lot of other early bodybuilders too. Large chests didn't start to become a thing until people figured out bench pressing.
Worst part is that it's not even practical
You look at anybody doing practical movements in life and you'll see their chest is modest.
But then enters the gym and pseudo movements designed entirely to develop musculature for some body builder dream.
I'm not actually sure what you're trying to say here. Abdominals are not technically the chest. They're abdominals. The chest would be pectorals, which you are correct in saying isn't particularly practical. If you look at photos of hunter-gatherers, or even photos of the original bodybuilders back in the day, or ancient statues, none of them have hulking pectorals, both because they didn't have a means of training them like the bench press and because it wasn't particularly relevant to them.
Abs, I would argue, are practical- to an extent.
>I'm not actually sure what you're trying to say here. Abdominals are not technically the chest. They're abdominals.
???? What the fuck are you talking about anon? I'm talking about chest.
>My man I responded to a guy that was asking about ab exercises
You responded to me.
I responded to a guy talking about pectorals.
Are you having a stroke?
MY post
Worst part is that it's not even practical
You look at anybody doing practical movements in life and you'll see their chest is modest.
But then enters the gym and pseudo movements designed entirely to develop musculature for some body builder dream.
HIS post
Unironically ensmallen your pects. They're not that large on Greecian and Roman statues, and people historically did not tend to have large pects. You can see this with Sandow and a lot of other early bodybuilders too. Large chests didn't start to become a thing until people figured out bench pressing.
YOUR post
I'm not actually sure what you're trying to say here. Abdominals are not technically the chest. They're abdominals. The chest would be pectorals, which you are correct in saying isn't particularly practical. If you look at photos of hunter-gatherers, or even photos of the original bodybuilders back in the day, or ancient statues, none of them have hulking pectorals, both because they didn't have a means of training them like the bench press and because it wasn't particularly relevant to them.
Abs, I would argue, are practical- to an extent.
I'm not sure if you're asking seriously or if you're just trolling. Either way, you're a dipshit.
You don't do an exercise to "make your abs show". You can do a billion situps and you'll never have visible abs if you eat like a fucking pig. Having visible abs is about cutting your body fat percentage. If, for some god forsaken reason, you don't understand how that works, I will waste my time by explaining it to you as if you were a child;
Your body is just a complicated machine. Like a car, it needs fuel, which are calories. Unlike a car, your body will store excess fuel in adipose tissue, which is usually just called 'fat'. This tissue is not just all over the body underneath the skin, but it is also located in most other places in and around organs and other soft tissue.
When you get fat, you have had a chronic (that means it has been happening for a long time) surplus of calories. When you lose fat, you have a chronic caloric deficit. If you just idle at the same weight, you're eating enough to maintain that weight. The number you need to consume to maintain your weight varies based on what your weight is.
If you want visible abs, you need to go into a caloric deficit for long enough that your body fat percentage is reduced enough for the musculature to be visible.
To do this, add up how many calories you eat in a day, then subtract 500 for 1lb a week, or 1000 for 2 a week. Do not go under 1500 if you can help it. Maintain this until you have lost enough to see your abs.
I will add a bit more, because I realized you may be confused by how fat distribution works.
Your body distributes fat across the body evenly. Some parts of the body will accumulate- and as a result hold- more, but ultimately it's a more or less fixed rate across the whole body. You cannot lose fat in one spot but not another. That is a myth known as 'spot reduction'. Do not believe in it, nor fall for it. It is not real, and every conceivable clinical trial ever conducted has corroborated this. It is not up for debate.
The only way to lose gut fat is to lose fat, full stop.
Not the guy you talking to but >Your body distributes fat across the body evenly
No it don't. Which is why I have a problem in the first place.
I have parts of the body where my body pulls fat from aggressively, always.
I have parts where it likes to store fat, aggressively, to the point of holding on to dear life even as the rest of the body is getting quite lean.
I might not be able to control it, but my body absolutely does not tread fat storage or removal equally across my entire body.
My ideal is huge fucking quads
That's all
Girls don’t like quads ngmi
>caring about what girls like
Why should I? I want huge fucking quads because they look cool. That's all
They look like giant chicken thighs ngmi
I want the earth to shake under my feet. Is that too much to ask for?
Yes, you sound like you wanna be lizzo booty quaking and shit
Don't care, I'm going to get 30" quads regardless.
Lol yes they do. They like big meaty thighs and butts.
you are reading blog posts from fat chicks
Are you femoid, or repeating what you read or heard?
Squats, deadlifts, oats, eggs and milk x failure.
>Not statuemaxxing in 2023
NGMI
miring
stats? height/weight/lifts
Greek mythology you say?
Loocking sick, mirotaur.
Accept my Dark Blessing.
looking sick, mirotaur
Accept my Dark Blessing.
How do you get a core like that?
do you train it directly?
looking sick, minotaur
looking sick, mirotaur
looking sick, mirotaur
Looking sick mirotaur
You have a good goal wish you luck
just need to work on your shoulders more
Unironically ensmallen your pects. They're not that large on Greecian and Roman statues, and people historically did not tend to have large pects. You can see this with Sandow and a lot of other early bodybuilders too. Large chests didn't start to become a thing until people figured out bench pressing.
Worst part is that it's not even practical
You look at anybody doing practical movements in life and you'll see their chest is modest.
But then enters the gym and pseudo movements designed entirely to develop musculature for some body builder dream.
I'm not actually sure what you're trying to say here. Abdominals are not technically the chest. They're abdominals. The chest would be pectorals, which you are correct in saying isn't particularly practical. If you look at photos of hunter-gatherers, or even photos of the original bodybuilders back in the day, or ancient statues, none of them have hulking pectorals, both because they didn't have a means of training them like the bench press and because it wasn't particularly relevant to them.
Abs, I would argue, are practical- to an extent.
>I'm not actually sure what you're trying to say here. Abdominals are not technically the chest. They're abdominals.
???? What the fuck are you talking about anon? I'm talking about chest.
My man I responded to a guy that was asking about ab exercises. My entire post was about abs. What are YOU talking about?
>My man I responded to a guy that was asking about ab exercises
You responded to me.
I responded to a guy talking about pectorals.
Are you having a stroke?
MY post
HIS post
YOUR post
what excercises do you do to make your abs show?
I'm not sure if you're asking seriously or if you're just trolling. Either way, you're a dipshit.
You don't do an exercise to "make your abs show". You can do a billion situps and you'll never have visible abs if you eat like a fucking pig. Having visible abs is about cutting your body fat percentage. If, for some god forsaken reason, you don't understand how that works, I will waste my time by explaining it to you as if you were a child;
Your body is just a complicated machine. Like a car, it needs fuel, which are calories. Unlike a car, your body will store excess fuel in adipose tissue, which is usually just called 'fat'. This tissue is not just all over the body underneath the skin, but it is also located in most other places in and around organs and other soft tissue.
When you get fat, you have had a chronic (that means it has been happening for a long time) surplus of calories. When you lose fat, you have a chronic caloric deficit. If you just idle at the same weight, you're eating enough to maintain that weight. The number you need to consume to maintain your weight varies based on what your weight is.
If you want visible abs, you need to go into a caloric deficit for long enough that your body fat percentage is reduced enough for the musculature to be visible.
To do this, add up how many calories you eat in a day, then subtract 500 for 1lb a week, or 1000 for 2 a week. Do not go under 1500 if you can help it. Maintain this until you have lost enough to see your abs.
I will add a bit more, because I realized you may be confused by how fat distribution works.
Your body distributes fat across the body evenly. Some parts of the body will accumulate- and as a result hold- more, but ultimately it's a more or less fixed rate across the whole body. You cannot lose fat in one spot but not another. That is a myth known as 'spot reduction'. Do not believe in it, nor fall for it. It is not real, and every conceivable clinical trial ever conducted has corroborated this. It is not up for debate.
The only way to lose gut fat is to lose fat, full stop.
Not the guy you talking to but
>Your body distributes fat across the body evenly
No it don't. Which is why I have a problem in the first place.
I have parts of the body where my body pulls fat from aggressively, always.
I have parts where it likes to store fat, aggressively, to the point of holding on to dear life even as the rest of the body is getting quite lean.
I might not be able to control it, but my body absolutely does not tread fat storage or removal equally across my entire body.
I literally address what you said in the very next sentence.
aesthetics zoomers will call that fat