My Gym Experience and What is it like to have a six pack?

Six pack is really a big deal where you need to have a lot of dedication, discipline and hard work altogether combined into one new life style. People might have a misconception that six pack can be made through gym easily but it’s not that easy, one can be fit through going to gym but it doesn’t guarantee six pack. 

It will take around one to one and a half years to get the best abs and shape. Becoming fit and getting hot and really cut and carved abs is entirely different. After going to gym, you can easily develop body muscles on your arms legs and chest but things are not going to shape up your abs so fast. It takes tremendous amount of dedication and discipline in both working out and diet. 80% of the people really don’t care about the abs when they go to gym because they cannot change their lifestyle by shifting to low calories not even thinkable, not so tasty not so spicy diet. Can you hardly imagine that all of a sudden you need to quit sugar in all your drinks and say no to oily and spicy hotshot food that you like the most. Having a six-pack requires several lifestyle changes that are hard to maintain unless you have the metabolism of a ruby-throated hummingbird, or are an athlete. I say hard because it involves exercising quite a bit and eating at a caloric deficit until at a low body fat percentage.

So its really hard to maintain that level of discipline in your dieting and gym. Usually in gym, there are mainly six sections alternately on six days of the week:

Chest, Biceps, Triceps, Shoulders, Wings and Legs

Sunday is off in most of the gyms lol.

There is no separate day for the abs. You can work out on your abs on every day after the main session of one of the above mentioned. Some trainers suggest that its better to play for abs (play literally means exercising) on the alternate days. And one important tip; always exhale to the fullest while playing for abs. There are some machines for abs but the machine count for abs is less as compared to other types of sessions. For other sessions you to do at least 6-7 machines.

If you are new to gym, always go for good cardio before every session. Usually you need to just roughly do only ground exercises for one week and only then will your trainer allow you to work on the above sessions. You will have a weirdo feeling like what the hell is this!!! I came to play on all these machines and all I do is just running large rounds, doing push ups, sit ups squats etc, even I have had the same freaking feeling.

You know what, because of the weird experience for the first three days my friend even quitted the whole gym. In our there was an outside balcony specially for the new guys which means you cannot even enter the AC gym for the first 6-7 days. A good trainer won’t let you in.

The reality is that you need to work more on your ground exercises for the first week to make yourself endurable for the gym otherwise it will be really painful in the first month.

Now talking about the benefits, “What about the benefits, bro? The babes?” Well, you look good with your shirt off, but that doesn’t cause girls to flock to you, rather, you get attention from the bros. That’s right, bro, maybe even some slap ass if you’re lucky.

I found that women like abs, but as long as a guy is remotely fit, they couldn’t care less about it. Dad bods and skinny dudes are also in right now...

I will say that it does raise your confidence, but being “good” at anything will raise your self-esteem.

In conclusion, people need to work out and get fit, but don’t worry about getting your body fat so low to have 6 pack-abs. It isn’t worth it.

For a year and a half I followed my own gym split which focused mainly on the big three(squat, bench, and dead lift) with supplemental exercises to accommodate those exercises. My focus was strength progression. I didn’t do a single crunch, planks or ab exercise.

In order to see your abs, you need to get to a low enough body fat percentage. This is done by being in a calorie deficit.

I believe the easiest/most accurate way to do this is through calorie/macro nutrient counting. It lets you still eat foods you like and not feel deprived while at the same time you do the bare minimum to lose body fat.

For two weeks I ate at low calories to see how my body would react to those calories. My average weight stayed the same for those two weeks leading me to the idea the calories I chose were fine.

Talking about my dieting experience, I dropped calories by about 200 to put myself into a calorie deficit. I aimed to lose about 1–2% of my body weight per week, which is reasonable for fat loss.

As long as I continued to lose weight on a certain amount of calories I wouldn’t change my calories or cardio. Those would only change if I saw no progress.

You can’t simply get a six pack by doing squats and heavy dead lifts with weights, but you can get a six pack by doing squats, heavy dead lifts with weights and a calorie deficit. Most people who do have abs usually flex their stomachs to display their abdominal muscles.One more thing about my gym experience is that most of the people hat the leg day,its usually on Saturday as it will be really painful for your legs, you wont be able to walk properly after leg day. I have seen a lot of guys skipping leg workout and doing some other sessions on that day. see don't get confused you can work on any sessions on any day, there is no strict guideline for that but its better to follow the same pattern which shows your discipline.

Thank you for your time, share and care!!!