In a similar way that that obese woman had thin arms and a big belly, here is a pic of Jeremy Clarkson with thin arms and pretty thin legs…
So if he wanted to get abs your sole advice would just be to do cardio? I wonder if his gut is from too much beer?
Also in that first pic of Christian Bale he didn’t have any significant ab muscles… if I was in his shoes would you say to just keep doing cardio? No ab exercises or weights?
In addition to cardio and diet, I do tons of hanging abs - knees to chest, leg raises, windshield wipers, “Ls”, and weighted knee-ups on the dip machine.
I also do inverted situps, bicycle crunches, and cable crunches.
I’m not sure this is the “easiest” way, but it works for me.
You need both core work and cardio (and strength work and a good diet) in combination. Besides the fact that core work is highly beneficial in general, what is revealed by weight loss won’t be all that impressive.
Those photos of Bale, he has 10-12% body fat, the one on the left is under that.
That’s not easy for anyone.
You know, you don’t show a history of doing anything but strenuously arguing with good advice. You’re doing it again in this thread. Why do you ask for advice if all you want to do is argue with it?
I am mainly arguing with ONE of the guys. I am saying that I think people require more than just cardio to get impressive ab muscles but Tithonus is saying that cardio alone is fine. You saying that is “good advice” means you agree with him.
beowulff said:
“In addition to cardio and diet, I do tons of hanging abs - knees to chest, leg raises, windshield wipers, “Ls”, and weighted knee-ups on the dip machine.
I also do inverted situps, bicycle crunches, and cable crunches.”
That is an example of one person’s advice that I liked and I didn’t argue with him.
In that link you gave there was only one person replying.
To answer your question:
“Why do you ask for advice if all you want to do is argue with it?”
If more than one person had gave advice in that thread I might have not argued with it. This “history” involving ONE mentioned thread where I disagree with ONE person isn’t much of a history. Well there are other examples of threads but my point is that I’m happy with a lot of the advice here.
BTW I asked for advice from people with abs… I wonder if Tithonus has impressive abs even though he says cardio alone is enough.
