How do I get that six pack? UPDATE page 2

I have to get unhealthily (is that a word?) thin to have a decent 6 pack.

I have given up trying

Hate to sound cliché, but abs are really made in the kitchen.

You can do a bunch of exercises to strengthen them, but they won't really be visible until you get to around 6-8% Body Fat percentage. You're probably around 12-14% right now.

If you really want abs then you'll need to cut more.

I’m 5’7”-ish and 145 lbs and have a six pack at 57 years old. It’s diet but also building leg and butt muscles. If you can build quads, hams, glutes and calfs, then that helps with the entire build and really helped me allow my abs to pop. I also play pickleball fairly aggressively, which burns a ton of calories for me in a lot of stop and go movements.

I’ve always eaten clean - little to no sweets, Beige carbs, fried foods, etc., but have a drink or 2 every night.

You need to figure out why you want a 6 pack. If it’s to look cool, a 5’ 10” 145 lb male has never achieved that. You may wanted to start tacking on mass.

I remember my “six pack”. I played football at 5’11”, 235. When I was a junior, I got down to 218 during wrestling season. If I scrunched up really hard I could barely see the outline of some ab muscles.


That’s all I have to add. Try Keto.

Best abs I ever had in my life was 5'8 175lbs and 12% bf. You need to bulk up amd focus on your core/power lifts IMO.

Do weighted core exercises in addition to the standard body weight exercises.

Abs are coming back baby!

Down to 145.

Rest of my body is getting shredded too. I have veins popping all over. Looks pretty cool. My goal is 142 before I go beast-mode gainz city.
I’ve kept a lot of the muscle I had initially built during this cut.

Started at 183. (All fat in gut and neck. Chicken arms and chicken legs)
Got down to 165 while building a lot of muscle.
Stomach just wouldn’t go away so I’ve been 100% cutting for about 2.5 months.

Best thing I got, was believe it or not, a heart monitor from Amazon. Looks like an Apple Watch. $35 or so. Helps me target my intensity for workouts or cardio. Keeps track of calories burned, steps and I can start “workout” or “run/walk” mode.

As most have said the thing that worked was diet. 1,000-1,500 calories a day and not eating past 7:00. Next meal is at lunch. Protein shakes throughout the day starting in the morning. That with tons of hypertrophy workouts, some cardio, and ab exercises (chair leg lifts [form is key], decline sit-ups, scissor kicks)