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Originally posted by kjroh
One of the best exercises you can do for your abs is to exercise the rest of your body. Well defined abs are there but most often just burried under excess body fat. To reduce your body fat covering your abs work on developing lean muscle mass in other parts of your body. Lean muscle mass burns more calories at rest than does fat so tone up other areas including the large leg mucscles.
It also helps to watch the diet .... they don't call it a beer belly or a nugget gut for nothing  Hope this helps.
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Nicely put. Funny thing is that I know a nice amount of people who have a six pack and never train their abs at all. This is because they hit every other muscle hard and have a low bodyfat % because of proper nutrition. Abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym. Training them will just make the cuts in the abs more prominent once they show (usually happens once you get below 10% bodyfat) Personally, I like training them. I love the burn and don't like to neglect any of my muscles.