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Originally Posted by Vplayer
The trick is burning calories
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Wrong - amount of cals burned is not the primary goal of cardio as it relates to fat loss.
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Originally Posted by vplayer
By maximizing the cardio output you can reduce the amount of total bodyfat so that when you DO get into the lower digits you can start etching in the abdominals with direct ab exercises.
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What? Etching the abs?
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Originally Posted by vplayer
In the mean time, work on strengthening the core with exercises that work the core.
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Exercises that work the core, like weighted crunches or cable crunches, etc? Isn't that in direct conflict with your next statement below?
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Originally Posted by vplayer
As far as abdominal excercises, people are wasting their time unless they have single digit bodyfat counts. You're cant see abs at over 10-12 percent bodyfat so why waste time working singular muscles like that?
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So, a powerlifter with 15% bf that can't see the horseshoe in his triceps should not bother with direct tricep work because he can't see it?
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Originally Posted by hrpiii
no jr., you got it wrong to start with. Maybe if you had a diagram, or were strong, I might get a better understanding.
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lol