'V-Cut' exercises

tdc

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how I can achieve the "V-cut" (the muscles beside 6 pack, above hips). I have very little body fat around my stomach which would make it easier to get the toned look. Only problem is I dont know what exercises I should be doing?

Any advice appreciated

Jimmy Bottlehead

They're your hipbones, unless I'm mistaken? In which case, dropping your bodyfat is the only way to make them visible.

waffleman

Do you mean the hip flexer muscles?

Great abs are achieved by having a well balanced overall physique and low body fat. Sounds obvious I know but heres some more info:

Think of your core as a group of muslces that all need to be trained together to get the full package. your back and inner abs must be worked to pull in your abs to get this look just as much as the visible outer layer of abs. Do your deadlifts and planks to prevent your abs hanging out - some people call this distended abs - not a good look.

A favourite workout of mine for abs is side to side cable crunches and hanging leg raises (these will build the hip flexers muscles and lower abs to get what you need) sample workout:

20 reps weighted cable crunches side to side
15 fully extended hanging leg raises
30 seconds plank to help pull in abs
rest for 60 seconds

repeat this x 3

hope this helps!

PeakOutput

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

They're your hipbones, unless I'm mistaken? In which case, dropping your bodyfat is the only way to make them visible.

they are not your hip bones here is a pic

Jimmy Bottlehead

PeakOutput wrote: »

they are not your hip bones here is a pic

Yeah, isn't that just a well defined abdominal region with low bodyfat, and with the hipbones visible because of the flat stomach and defined muscles?

Transform

there is not much of any hip bone on show - more the taper of the abs really.

Overall wont see much if you have not got a low body fat and i see no use in this aim if your very light also i.e. under 12stone, put on some muscle and keep body fat down

unknownlegend

Aside from having a very low bodyfat percentage and doing some of the exercises aforementioned, i'd imagine genetics has quite the part to play here. It will mostly influence the taper of the muscle you can build or 'make most visible' in that area to get the V's you're after.
I think any exercises with a tendency to pull the navel to the spine will help pronounce the V most. (Plank, properly executed)

Transform

lets not go down the genetics road again!

Plank is a very very basic core exercise and one i have beginners do on day one - now to get a good looking stomach and plank is NOT going to cut it. I certainly did not get my v-cut from plank

It still comes back to hard training with a proper program (i.e. NOT 5-6 exercise in a session for stomach), consistency and a clean diet.

amazingemmet

Also you need to hypertrophy up the internal obliques to get it to stand out. I like circular hanging leg raises for these. But low body fat is the first port of call

BossArky

Transform wrote: »

Overall wont see much if you have not got a low body fat and i see no use in this aim if your very light also i.e. under 12stone, put on some muscle and keep body fat down

Anyone see the skinny guy (Wayne?) on SuperSize vs Superskinny last night?

He was convinced he was some sort of buff six-packed Popeye at 9 stone. In reality he was a malnourished self inflicted famine victim made up of nothing but skin and bone.

Transform

yes i did and he is exactly what i am taking about

For gods sake when i was 17-19years old (now 32) i thought i was the dogs boll1x just because i had abs and was quite fit - was not until i started weights at 18-19years old that i realised how much work i needed to do.

waffleman

Transform wrote: »

lets not go down the genetics road again!

Plank is a very very basic core exercise and one i have beginners do on day one - now to get a good looking stomach and plank is NOT going to cut it. I certainly did not get my v-cut from plank

It still comes back to hard training with a proper program (i.e. NOT 5-6 exercise in a session for stomach), consistency and a clean diet.

Transform wrote: »

yes i did and he is exactly what i am taking about

For gods sake when i was 17-19years old (now 32) i thought i was the dogs boll1x just because i had abs and was quite fit - was not until i started weights at 18-19years old that i realised how much work i needed to do.

You seem annoyed about something - are there threads started here every day full of the same questions about abs?

What do you suggest for an advanced ab workout then?