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Consistent Fitness – Get Six Pack Abs in 16 Weeks

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Re: Consistent Fitness – Get Six Pack Abs in 16 Weeks

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Post by soheil »

awb wrote: post #12
soheil wrote: post #7

Has anyone been able to find a free site that works in achieving the same goal?

Here's the formula: 1. Eat at caloric maintenance or a slight caloric surplus to build muscle 2. Do a consistent ab workout routine 3-5x per week (free on YouTube), progressively overloading your body with more resistance through longer workouts, heavier weights or more demanding positions 3. When you want 6-pack abs, cut your caloric intake to be at a slight deficit for a few weeks and try to shred as much excess bo…

How do you measure calories in food? It takes a herculean effort to know exactly what ingredients are in food and weigh exactly how much of each you're consuming with every meal. Seems like a lot of work to manually keep track of all that every single day and not make a mistake.

Re: Consistent Fitness – Get Six Pack Abs in 16 Weeks

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Post by yupper32 »

progre wrote: post #13
awb wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's the formula: 1. Eat at caloric maintenance or a slight caloric surplus to build muscle 2. Do a consistent ab workout routine 3-5x per week (free on YouTube), progressively overloading your body with more resistance through longer workouts, heavier weights or more demanding positions 3. When you want 6-pack abs, cut your caloric intake to be at a slight deficit for a few weeks and try to shred as much excess bo…

Also, no alcohol, no soda. At all.

Makes it easier, sure, but not absolutely necessary.

I regularly have alcohol when I'm cutting weight. It just gets counted towards my calorie budget.

I do find non-diet soda to be completely wasted calories though. Just not worth it.

Re: Consistent Fitness – Get Six Pack Abs in 16 Weeks

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Post by yupper32 »

soheil wrote: post #21
awb wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's the formula: 1. Eat at caloric maintenance or a slight caloric surplus to build muscle 2. Do a consistent ab workout routine 3-5x per week (free on YouTube), progressively overloading your body with more resistance through longer workouts, heavier weights or more demanding positions 3. When you want 6-pack abs, cut your caloric intake to be at a slight deficit for a few weeks and try to shred as much excess bo…

How do you measure calories in food? It takes a herculean effort to know exactly what ingredients are in food and weigh exactly how much of each you're consuming with every meal. Seems like a lot of work to manually keep track of all that every single day and not make a mistake.

1. Count your calories the best you can. Apps like MyFitnessPal help.

2. Weigh yourself every day.

3. After 2 weeks, raise or lower your calorie budget depending on how much weight you've lost. Look at averages, not daily weight.

4. Repeat.

The 2 week adjustment takes care of most mistakes you make with calorie counting. I am usually consistent with the direction I'm over or under counting.

Re: Consistent Fitness – Get Six Pack Abs in 16 Weeks

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Post by UncleMeat »

torstenvl wrote: post #16
stopachka wrote: post #2

Hey HN! This is Joe (nezaj) and Stopa (stopachka). Both of us are Clojure hackers [1]. For the last few years, we’ve been on a journey to “get six pack abs”. To do this, we hired a personal trainer, created a mini-community within our friend group, and built custom tools for ourselves, to create a sort of “Datadog for our fitness”. 3 months ago, we had a realization: what if we tried to create a company that did this…

A majority of your current users wouldn't be disappointed if you ceased to exist? $200/month?! "Non-compliant"?!?! "Manually intervene"?!?!?! That's a hard no for me, dawg.

Yeah jeez. 200/m for an app and a slack bot? Unless these curricula are awfully extraordinary, this is a ridiculous price.

Re: Consistent Fitness – Get Six Pack Abs in 16 Weeks

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Post by throwawake »

soheil wrote: post #7

Has anyone been able to find a free site that works in achieving the same goal?

To look things up, I often land on https://exrx.net/Lists/Directory . As someone, who went from skinny to muscular with just bodyweight workouts, I think consistency is the key.

Re: Consistent Fitness – Get Six Pack Abs in 16 Weeks

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Post by nezaj »

croes wrote: post #18

Is a six pack really the "Best Shape of Your Life"? MMA fighter and strongman are in pretty good shape without a six pack.

Six-pack definitely doesn't mean best shape of your life. But the habits we build throughout the program will certainly help you get in the best shape of your life. We're still pretty early and we go for the six-pack angle because

1) We wanted a six-pack ourselves so in the spirit of solving our own problems we started Consistent 2) Getting a six-pack is a pretty concrete outcome, especially when looking at before and after photos.

That being said, we're also open to folks who want a body transformation!

Re: Consistent Fitness – Get Six Pack Abs in 16 Weeks

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Post by agentwiggles »

soheil wrote: post #21
awb wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's the formula: 1. Eat at caloric maintenance or a slight caloric surplus to build muscle 2. Do a consistent ab workout routine 3-5x per week (free on YouTube), progressively overloading your body with more resistance through longer workouts, heavier weights or more demanding positions 3. When you want 6-pack abs, cut your caloric intake to be at a slight deficit for a few weeks and try to shred as much excess bo…

How do you measure calories in food? It takes a herculean effort to know exactly what ingredients are in food and weigh exactly how much of each you're consuming with every meal. Seems like a lot of work to manually keep track of all that every single day and not make a mistake.

Weighing food is not really a "herculean effort," but in my experience it is certainly fair to call it a "pain in the ass".

That said, dealing with the "knowing exactly what ingredients" part is actually easy enough, if you're cooking your own food. If not, most places have some kind of nutrition information available, and if they don't, a rough guess is definitely better than nothing.

Calorie tracking is not much fun, but it is definitely effective. Getting it perfectly right isn't as important as consistency.

Re: Consistent Fitness – Get Six Pack Abs in 16 Weeks

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Post by scrollaway »

ranuzz wrote: post #9
soheil wrote: post #7

Has anyone been able to find a free site that works in achieving the same goal?

fitnessblender works really well. It has a paid program as well which I had used in the past for a while. Free content works really well if you are consistent :D

I second the recommendation.

Re: Consistent Fitness – Get Six Pack Abs in 16 Weeks

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Post by soheil »

throwawake wrote: post #25
soheil wrote: post #7

Has anyone been able to find a free site that works in achieving the same goal?

To look things up, I often land on https://exrx.net/Lists/Directory . As someone, who went from skinny to muscular with just bodyweight workouts, I think consistency is the key.

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Re: Consistent Fitness – Get Six Pack Abs in 16 Weeks

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Post by throwawake »

croes wrote: post #18

Is a six pack really the "Best Shape of Your Life"? MMA fighter and strongman are in pretty good shape without a six pack.

In my opinion, six packs are not that important. Having strong muscles along with agility and control over body is what really matters.
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