How does one get a stomach like this?

Sorry extra like. No, I'm not a surfer.

Basically everyone who is fit at all has Abs like those, but they are covered up. To achieve the same look you must get your body fat percentage very low.

You probably eat a sufficient amount of food. That does not look healthy.

you eat

Have you ever had your picture taken like that at max effort? I bet you would look very similiar.

this is a much better 1

http://svt.se/content/1/c6/24/58/30/holmes-prb-segergest-410-hog.jpg

situps - 200+ a day. Hurts like hell at first, but you soon get used to it. Leave your ab board in the hall and make sure you do 30+ every time you pass it.

Its all a basis of where you store your fat. Athletes who store almost all their fat around their organs (big name, cant remember) will develop abs like that, but if you carry your necessary body fat on the subcutaneous level, then it is very hard to get your abs to look like that. No matter how many sit ups or crunches you do, the muscle definition will never be "Amazing" but will be damn good if you carry your fat on a subcutaneous level.

get your body fat down and train your entire core, not just your abs

i think she looks awesome.

That's true about where you carry your body fat. I'm a female runner and was "dunked" and measured at 7.8% one time and usually between 9-11% and I still had fat on my butt and stomach. That's why you can't put too much stock in how "fit" people "look". It should be just how FAST or how FAR they can run.

sub cutaneous argument huh?

look fella, flanagan we all know was a chunkster up to just a few years ago. Thats what was nice about her, she didn't cave to this super thin thing. well she caved and when I saw her last summer and how thin she was I almost barfed. Truth is she is a shining example anyone ANYONE can make themselves look like that. I just don't know how healthy it is for a woman. A man of course, but a woman I don't know...depends on if its entirely training based or food deprivation based. It would be much better to look like that completely from training, but some go to the extreme and eat the wrong way.

It is healthier (by a large large factor) if it is based on training.

But as soon as you start starving yourself the benefits of that health gain is lost. Usually it shortens careers and in the case of American women it needs to shorten more of them because they don't belong competing with the Chinese, Ethiopians, Kenyans, and Japanese because those women just plain work hard and don't complain. here its always complain complain complain, wah wah wah I have my period, wah wah wah I have cramps wah wah I have to go to the mall I shouldn't eat food even though I need it to survive or the best one: THIS IS SOOOOOOO HARD.

If you want visible washboard abs, you need to do the following things in order of importance:

1) Diet. Eat a decent diet filled with fruits and vegetables and lean protein and complex carbs. Don't over eat.

2) Cardio work. Run, do aerobics, Power Yoga, cycle, swim, whatever you can do to get a good cardio workout 5-6 days a week, and even 7 days a week if you take it easy twice in there.

3) Ab work. Never more than 200 crunches of different kinds in a day, and only 3 days a week, and never two days in a row. 3 days a week while you are getting to the decent abs, and then once you have them, 2 days a week to maintain. This is by far the least important of the three things though. You can have visible abs with just a good diet and enough running. Make them pop a bit mroe with the ab work. All the ab work in the world will do nothing if you're not doing #1 and #2 above.

She has awesome abs. I wonder what her secret it. Here is another good shot.

http://www.eliterunning.com/features/47/

She has awesome abs. I wonder what her secret is. Here is another good shot.

http://www.eliterunning.com/features/47/

journeyman ii-the legend grows wrote:

Thats what was nice about her, she didn't cave to this super thin thing.

You mean she didn't cave to this "putting all your energy into being the fastest runner you can be" thing? Yeah, how awful for her to fall down that road.

being as thin as possible and being as fast as possible don't go hand in hand

Correct. But being as healthily thin as possible often does lead to being as fast as possible.

tqx wrote:

Correct. But being as healthily thin as possible often does lead to being as fast as possible.

Agreed. I'm a guy--it's different, generally, for men and women--but in college I was motivated to lose weight for health reasons: I had been reclassified (under protest) 1A in the draft and my birthday was 23rd on the list, in a year when they were drafting down to #185 or so.

I was eager to avoid a sudden and severe case of lead poisoning, so I dropped weight from 160 to 144 in a couple months. My running got (by my lights) amazingly better.

I eventually got my student deferment back, but mostly kept the weight off (bulked up to 148, then held it there for years). My general health was considerably better during those years than it had been at the heavier weight. I felt that losing that 10% of body weight truly made a major difference.

i'd do 'er

tqx wrote:

journeyman ii-the legend grows wrote:

Thats what was nice about her, she didn't cave to this super thin thing.

You mean she didn't cave to this "putting all your energy into being the fastest runner you can be" thing? Yeah, how awful for her to fall down that road.

Here's another one. I wonder what her secret is???

http://www.usolympicteam.com/26_1339.htm