Shaping your abs.... is this even possible?

[JoNeS]

I was always under the assumption that you couldn't really alter the size and shape of your abs like you could any other muscles.

Personally, the only thing that I have noticed through ab training is an increase in strength and an ancrease in hardnes in the muscle....not a change in size or shape.

So the question is can abwork change the size and shape of your abs, or is your ab shape pretty much fixed genetically.

 

[wnt2bBeast]

Shape is genetic..you cant change the shape of any muscle in the body..Things may appear to have changed shape once you get to a lower % bodyfat..

 

[JoNeS]

Shape is genetic..you cant change the shape of any muscle in the body..Things may appear to have changed shape once you get to a lower % bodyfat..

But you can change the shape by adding overall size to it. Can you add noticeable size to your abs?

 

[cmdubs]

I think you can add size, just like any other muscle, but you can't change the shape. Just like with biceps, some people have a peak, some don't. You can make the muscle bigger but you'll never change the shape.

 

[one man gang]

One thing that you have to remember is that bodybuilding is a lot of times based on creating an "illusion" and based on that there is one "illusion" that you can create with your ab training. The function of the intercostal muscles is to pull the stomach in, so I use that with many of my trainees with lots of twisting high inlcine sit ups to actually pull the stomach in and give them the appearance of having a flatter "tummy." Don't know if you can really consider that "shaping" but trust me it works, simple body mechanics! O.M.G.

 

[wnt2bBeast]

But you can change the shape by adding overall size to it. Can you add noticeable size to your abs?

the shape cannot be changed...only the size!!!! you complain your legs are too big why the hell would you want huge abs?????

 

[JoNeS]

the shape cannot be changed...only the size!!!! you complain your legs are too big why the hell would you want huge abs?????

I don't want huge abs...

 

[WD30]

But you can change the shape by adding overall size to it. Can you add noticeable size to your abs?

And don,t believe the hype surrounding spot reduction

 

[TheOak84]

synthol can change the shape...

poor Valentino...

 

[LeanMeanHockeyMachine]

because there's no such thing as spot reduction, total fitness myth...