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Originally posted by cait987
Hmm, normally I dont prefere to respond to a post two times, but who exactly did your bodyfat test? 4% bodyfat is more or less ... impossible, even if you had never worked out your abdominals in your life they would be popping out, and it is impossible to maintain 4% BF for more then a few hours due to water retention so
A. You were Dead
B. You were in a bodybuilding competition
C. The Person who did the test sucked at it
Now, more power to you if you have 4% BF but the odds of it are very slim, and the odds of no abdominal muscles with 4% BF well, defy all logic seeing as how 3% BF means there isnt a single speck of visible fat on your body the only fat left is the fat that cushions major organs in your body. (Tendons pop out, veins are everywhere, you can see the peoples bones etc at 4-5% BF)
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The 4 tests were hydrostatic weighing, caliper, tape measure, and electric. They were performed multiple times over the course of 4 weeks. The results ranged from low 4's to mid 5's. I guess I must have been dead then.
I had a really low fat diet, was running 80+ miles a week at well under 5:45 pace per mile, doing weights, and probably weighed about 130 pounds at 5'10". Even with that, I still had next to no definitition in my stomach, it was kinda scary. Nothing like most of the other people I was working out with.
You say that you do a few high reps to get bigger biceps, that's true, but what do you do if you want lot's of lot's of definition? You do lot's and lot's of reps. 8 minutes straight of abs is probably more than you spend continuously on your biceps in any given session. Do that everyday and you're going to get much better defined abs.
Have you even seen what 8 minutes of abs entails? It's 8 different exercises, 1 minute each, no rest, high intensity. Not just crunches, including bicycles, leg lifts, and v-ups.
Like I said, diet doesn't help if you've got nothing to see. You need to work to get defined abs, and high rep stuff is the easiest way to get there (with absolutely no money spent). And if you want to do low rep high intensity stuff, try an ab wheel.