If I wanted to...

build slight definition in my tummy, how could I do this?

any great exercises I could try?

 

I really like this stomach

(found on google images) haha

 

I really can't do any crunches/sit-ups, they hurt my back so much.

anything that doesn't involve laying on the floor perhaps?

 

my activity level is about sedentary: high school, work, no sports.

I'm mostly an art kid :]

go to fitnessmagazine.com (Its free to join) there are video workouts that you can view and do right along with the fitness model...try the 6 weeks to sexy abs video...im sure you will enjoy it

Did you happen to notice that the picture you are looking at came from a plastic surgery site? Look at the url. It also looks way too perfect to be real. =/

yea, I did notice that.

 

but all the other stomach pictures were before/after plastic sugery or PORN.

gah.

I don't want my post deleted for porn content. haha.

alecia217 - thanks for mentioning fitnessmagazine.com.  I just got fininshed watching 3 videos.  They are very very good.  I now have a plan.........

Definition in your abs is mostly a function of low body fat.  The most important factor in fat loss is your diet.

thank you for the replies!

 

I checked out fitnessmagazine.com

It looks like that should help.

 

thanks guys!

i get that back pain, i used an ab roller or crawler what ever its called, that really did help alot, now my technique prevents back pain

but you cant get defined abs unless you lower your body fat percentage

but aye, its pretty photoshopped;p

do you know how I could find out my body fat percentage?

 

I tried to use an online guide to calculate it...but it told me that my body fat was impossible because I had around 0%.

and I was like: whaaaaat???

This guy that works at the gym has me on two exercises for my abs. The first works the upper and middle abs.

- Lay down on the ab rack thing that holds your legs at the knee (make sure that it is a zero incline) with a 6lb (increase as you get stronger) long bar held straight back behind your head level with your body. Start rotating the bar forward towards your knees slowly and raise your torso slowly, keeping your lower back on the pad.  Your shoulders will only be less than a foot off of the pad and full crunch. 

I told the guy at the gym that I had a lot of lower back pain when doing abs and he suggested this and it works for me. Keep your lower back down and go slow and you shouldn't get much if any back pain. The second works the lower abs, and it is just knee lifts on the vertical rack. I do two sets of each until I can't do anymore. These are the first exercises that I have found that I really feel the burn in my abs and not in my lower back.

 

the plank is awesome.. you start in pushup position but with your forearms on the ground and you make sure your whole body is straight from head to toe. and hold for as long as you can..you just basically work your way up from 10 secs to more