will i be able to do those without bending my back? Also any advice for really rocking out my abs without bending my back? I have a rather solid 6 pack already though bball etc but i really want to get them to the wow factor.

Madals

Some of the exercises I listed will be no problem for you, some of them I'm not 100% about, you will just have to try carefully.
The Plank for example is a great exercise where the goal is to keep your back straight.
When you do the Plank a good way to do is, 3 sets of one minute each, and rest 30-45 sec in between.

When it comes to abs, it is a lot about diet, I understand this won't be a problem for you since you already have a "rather solid six pack" BUT I still want to list it for other readers.
Eat lean foods, cut down fat in your diet to only 10-15% of your total calorie intake.
Eat lean foods rich in protein such as poultry and fish.
Eat whole grain carbs, don't eat carbs late at night it will only accumulate to fat when you rest, carbs are for energy only. This is why a lot of beer late at night will give you a beer belly!

When it comes to ab exercises where you keep your back straight:
Hanging from a pull up bar doing leg lifts, straight and bend and legs to the sides are great for your abs.
Laying down on your back, doing a variety of mixed leg lifts (straight, cycling etc) is also a great way to target especially your lower abs.
There are weights that you can strap on your legs, buy a couple of those to make the legs heavier, your abs will have to work harder and this really rock your workout!

Good luck!

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Class, thats what I have been doing so far. I have also been doing it where i lift my legs towards one hand then the other (diagonal).
I am trying to get some more specifics down but i am recovering from surgery at the moment and the morphine is making typing out posts hard, give me a week or two and i will PM you some more details if thats ok?
Madals

As a nutritionist i hope you can answer my questions.

I have a camel theroy:

As we know camels store fat in their humps (not water as in popular belief) so i was wondering if we humans, will burn fat to prevent dehydration, just as camels does?

Now i know that dehydrating yourself is ultemetly suidcide, but how bout just taking in less fluids? (i'm speculating it will slow down your brain activity a lot)

Also (i'm pretty interested in biology) is it right that you will not burn body fat before you have used up your fat storage of glycogen in your liver?

I did an experiment with my body, where i ate just vegetebles and water, while doing a lot of cardio for 5 days (wok vegetebles coocked without any oil or butter contains close to zero calries) and i had a tremendous fat loss. after that i started worrying about malnutrition disieses and stopped, and went back to eating my semi-healthy diet.

hope you can answer my questions

I found your theory very interesting, I like thinking about these things.
According to what I have studied, drinking more water will increase your metabolism there by increasing the rate of the calories burned in the body. If you drink less, your body will retain all resources it has and you will slow down your metabolism thereby gaining weight.

I've read researches that claimed that drinking 16oz (500mL) of cold water before breakfast everyday will kickstart your metabolism and help you burn more calories and help shape your body. I actually do this every morning and I find it effective!

And yes, dehydrating yourself will slow down your brain, maybe it will turn you AFC again lol

You are absolutely right about the glycogen, to sumarize it for less scientific readers, all your energy from carbs will store in your body as glycogen, glycogen is energy you can use for working out or just simply moving. Glycogen that is not used is converted to fat! This is why you shoudn't eat carbs before bed time (or drink beer )
Your glycogen storage will be used prior to your fat storage, which is why simply training won't be enough for weight loss, you also need to cut calories.

So when you stop eating fat, and eating less carbs, as stated above, and you work out, your glycogen storage will disappear and your body will take the requried energy from the fat storage, so yes you will experience a quick fat loss.
This method can be used for short periods of time, hazards are of course malnutrition and severe lack of energy, if you keep this up too long you will suffer muscle loss.

I hope this answered your questions, thank you for raising an interesting topic!

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it did! thank you very much. i'm interested in loosing fat, and i dont think it will be much of a trouble for me, since i have pretty big muscles (witch will require a lot of ATP ) but also too much fat to really show that of, if you know what i mean.

I would also like try out my camel theory, but i have a lot of school, so i don't want to risk it.

one more question though:
What do you think is the best way to loose the fat in terms of work out.

Cardio and getting the Citric-acid-cycle and Oxidative phosphorylation going seems like the obvious choice, since it will force my body to use a lot of energy and converting fat into atp (since i have enough fat to start with, i don't think i have to worry about it breaking down proteins and muscle tissue making me smell like ammonia)

however my aunt who is a physical therapist reccomends interval training, while i can't see the purely biological advantage there

what do you think?

Personally I have found HiiT (High Intensity Interval Training) to work 'better' so to say. It is faster and shorter than the typical 30-40 minute runs. It gets your heart rate up a great deal, it gets your blood flowing and it actually gets you tired. It is great for burning fat, it is what a lot of bodybuilders use to lose that quick extra bit.

However like lifting you need to shock your body, so if you do HiiT you still need to incorporate other cardio. You can do HiiT when doing anything though, so thats good.

Personally I swim twice a week, run twice a week, bike once and row once. I do HiiT when running and biking. I go hard when rowing and I swim at a moderate pace.

I also stack this with my many supplements, so I see progress much faster.

wow, would be great to have time\opporunity to have such varied and cool work-outs!

however i'm not going for a body builder look(no idea if you are either, not insinuating anything). i just want people to see me as "fit" when they see me not ripped

thank's for a great thread!

I found the most effective fat loss tool to be your watch!
A regular stop watch!
The reason being that you need to increase your intensity in your workout in order to burn fat, and the best way to do this is to always time your rest, for fat loss, rest between sets shouldn't exceed 45 sec, so try to keep your rest between sets around 30-45sec

If you woukout, weightlifting, hard, heavy weights, about 12-15 reps in each set and keep the rest this low your body will tone nicely and the pounds will fly away like HBs from an AFC!

Another thing you should think about for weight loss is to workout your entire body evertime you hit the gym!

And finally, yes, interval training will be effective, try running intervals in hills for example, it is a great workout and you will burn a lot of calories doing it!

You can also mix in intervals of cardio in your weight lifting to raise your heart rate, it is a bitch, but you will feel good afterwards!

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As a last notice i must congratulate you Slywalker!

You deserve a nobel price in medicine for making a cure for not-hungry-for-breakfast-syndrome that so many people shares with me.

I drank 500ml of water before hitting the shower and got hungry as hell. I am never hungry for breakfast!

Much great advice here. You won't even get this great and personal help in a healthforum.

Man this forum has everything!

Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad I can help.
PM me your best, secret routines as payment, lol!!

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Slywalker, check your PM

Here's a little hint towards the Dehydration-theory;
For every 1% of fluid you loose you loose 10% of your capacity. (Simplification, of course, but the basic idea comes through. This is what I was taught in school.)

Whats the best way to get a six pack?

Im currently trying to gat a six pack, im fairly thin but i can still pinch an inch of fat over my abs. Im currently doing a 30 day diet, cutting fat, no beer and doing cardio.

I obviously wanna build my ab muscles up, but this isn't really possible while dieting, as i understand?

so my theory is cut the fat then start training the abs and move to a high protien diet.

Is this a sound plan? Am i doing it the right way round?

any advice appreciated, thanks.

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What you are doing sounds about right, you can however still eat protein during your 30day diet, protein won't cause you to pack on fat.
Eat lean meats such as chicken and salmon, cut the fat off the chicken!
So yes you can still improve your muscles while dieting, you won't have as much energy for working out if you are cutting down on your carbs, but you can still do it!

When you are off your diet you don't need to concentrate on a high protein diet, your body won't be able to use too much protein and the excessive protein you eat will end up as number 2 in your toilet.
There is a good rule of thumb to how much protein you should eat that I use, for example if you weigh 75kg you should eat 75grams of protein per day, so pretty much you should eat 0.1% of your body weight worth of protein everyday, if you eat more you will only produce more waste, not fat, but make sure you don't eat less than this amount.
So in other words, its no problem eating a little too much protein but it won't do you any good.

The important thing when it comes to getting those hot abs is to COMPLETELY cut saturated fats out of you diet, these are fats solid in room temperture, your body doesn't need them, all the fat you need comes in fish and vegetable oil (liquid in room temperature).
Saturated fats have a tendency of ending up around your gut.

When it comes to working out your abs it is a bit different than other muscle groups like your arms, you can grow big arms by just pumping them 2-3 times a week but to get abs you need to work them 5-6 times a week.

Hope this answers your questions, good luck!

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