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Guys complain they can't keep their waist size down, but it's been my experience that they just don't wanna put the work into it.
I hang upside down from a chin-up bar (wearing "anti-gravity boots") and raise my upper body up until my face reaches my calves 100 times every day.
Usually it goes like this: the first set I can do about 25, the second set about 30-35, but then it starts getting hard and I do less and less per set. Sometimes it takes 3 or 4 sets to get the last 20 done. Sometimes my wife has to help me on the last few. I do them at home; the rest of my workout I do at the gym.
I think doing abs every day is what keeps them tight and lean. If you waited a few days in between, like we do when we're building our other muscles, I think the abs would bulk up, too. By training them every day, they don't have time to grow.
The other unconventional thing I do is on the bench sometimes. You know how you always hear, "Don't cheat, don't lift your butt off the bench"? My training partner and I sometimes take an XXL weight belt and strap it around the bench AND the body at the waist and buckle it tight. You can't raise your body an inch, and you feel the movement more in your pecs than regular benches. My chest has started growing again after plateauing out at 52.5"; it's now 54" and still growing.
Next time we do it I'll take a picture to share.
I hang upside down from a chin-up bar (wearing "anti-gravity boots") and raise my upper body up until my face reaches my calves 100 times every day.
Usually it goes like this: the first set I can do about 25, the second set about 30-35, but then it starts getting hard and I do less and less per set. Sometimes it takes 3 or 4 sets to get the last 20 done. Sometimes my wife has to help me on the last few. I do them at home; the rest of my workout I do at the gym.
I think doing abs every day is what keeps them tight and lean. If you waited a few days in between, like we do when we're building our other muscles, I think the abs would bulk up, too. By training them every day, they don't have time to grow.
The other unconventional thing I do is on the bench sometimes. You know how you always hear, "Don't cheat, don't lift your butt off the bench"? My training partner and I sometimes take an XXL weight belt and strap it around the bench AND the body at the waist and buckle it tight. You can't raise your body an inch, and you feel the movement more in your pecs than regular benches. My chest has started growing again after plateauing out at 52.5"; it's now 54" and still growing.
Next time we do it I'll take a picture to share.