Hello dears!
Is anybody familiar with how a fitness model poses her abs?
We're wondering here http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126826
Gotta have the most flattering befores and afters doncha know
Thanks in advance.

Suck in your breath, spead your lats, and "sit" into your abs.

There are lots of posing videos online if you want to search.
Pictures???

Mel

Pretty good week so far for me...short run, UBWO, yoga, spinning and later today power class.

The food has been better too. I even managed to survive dinner at the hockey game last night...chicken wrap where the only thing that may have been questionable would have been whatever dressing/sauce was hidden in there. Best choice I could find though.

Anyone want to comment on these http://www.oceanfish.com/noflash/products_cat5.html? I've been having them for lunch somewhat regularly. Do you think anyone would consider this "clean eating" or it's too processed? The ingredients/nutritional information seems okay. I like the spanish, italian or nicoise choices.

I've had some of these, and they're quite tasty. A little pricey (at least here) so I don't get them much. They were handy for camping though. Like you I thought the NI was pretty okay too.

Thanks Mel! I'll go try that.
Some folks have posted ab pics on that thread I sited up there. But I dunno ... my abs are considerably older than them gals.

SO. TIRED.

My gym buddy, Rob, brought his girlfriend to the gym tonight to lift with us. I said it was okay, but for prime time at the gym, three people trying to get in sets...it took a LONG time. There was a really nice guy who was willing to work in with us on the bench, but that was 4 people sharing a piece of equipment for 3 sets of 12 each.

Anyway, I talked to the coach guy at the gym on Monday and he gave me a routine to do for the next 4 weeks. It's the routine he gives his starting athletes to get them in shape. Tonight was pretty killer. It's a 3 times/week program, and new things get added in progressively as the weeks go on, so I'll be learning all kinds of exciting things--Workout #9, I'll do a "Hang Clean", whatever that is!

Tonight I did the following:

1. Bench Press (3 x 12) with 45 pound bar (bar weight + 5lbs on each end)
2. Seated Rows (3 x 12) with 50 pound weight
3. DB Incline Press (3x12) with 15 pound DBs
4. Assisted Pull-ups (3x10) with the pin set at 18.

There was no lower body in this at all, though the second workout, that I'm doing on Friday has (3x12) squats and a leg press in the mix,and there are step-ups in the 3rd workout.

I hadn't realized until tonight how HARD a lot of upper-body work is. I was SO fatigued by the time I finished doing the pull-ups, but I still tacked on 20 minutes of cardio to the end. My upper body's going to be SCREAMING tomorrow! Kinda missing my deadlifts.

EDIT: Did I just say I was going to miss exercise? Something must be changing in this brain of mine!

You've definitely joined the club!

Yesterday I did shoulders and biceps- I haven't done arm isolation exercises for months and am really feeling it! My new workout partner like to do arms so I'm humoring her for now. We did curls up and down the rack, buddy curls. long-bar partner curls...I figure if I burn her out on arms she'll come around to my way of thinking

Chest and tris today- wonder what I can dream up by lunch time

Mel

Back from the gym. Chest/abs day. I hit a new PR on weighted dips: 30 pounds, for 3 sets. At this rate, I'll be doing big girl plates on these by, oh, next May.

I'm with you on arms, Mel. I believe in doing three exercises for biceps: deadlifts, pullups, and Yates or T-bar rows. Every once in a while I'll throw in a set of concentration curls, but only if I'm not also doing abs (because of time) and I don't have anything pressing waiting for me at work.

A few fellow gym-goers haven't believed me when I tell them I don't do endless reps of curls. It doesn't really bother me: either they'll learn the magic of compound exercises ... or they won't.

Kim