How much do you have to weigh to see your 6-pack?
Health FitnessMost men don’t realize how much weight they have to lose to see their full abs. In many cases, men will sabotage their own weight loss efforts because they assume they will be able to see all of their abs at an unrealistically high body weight.
If you want to see your abs, your goal should be how you look in the mirror and not your body weight. If you thought you’d see your abs at 180 pounds, and you’re dieting to 180 pounds and you don’t see them … well, that just means you have to diet even lower to see them, plain and simple no magic trick for that.
How much you weigh on a scale doesn’t really matter, it’s how you look that matters. You probably have a good idea of how you would like your body to look exactly, but only a vague idea of how much it should weigh with that appearance. But if you’ve never seen your full 6-pack before, I bet you’re assuming the weight is a lot higher than it actually is.
In other words, there is a specific body weight that you will weigh to have a full set of visible abs. Then there is a slightly heavier body weight that you will have when only 4 of your abs are visible, and then an even heavier weight when only 2 of your abs are visible, etc. Most guys will assume that a full six pack will be visible with the body weight showing only 2 abs.
For whatever reason, we all think that we should be heavier than we really are.
The point is, your weight has a specific look. You will look a certain way at 150 pounds, and that particular look and thinness is different from how you look when you weigh 160 pounds and then 170 pounds and so on. You can’t force your body to look 150 pounds when you weigh 170 pounds.
In other words, if your full 6-pack is visible only when you weigh 150 pounds … then you can’t make it visible when you weigh 170 pounds. It doesn’t mean that you can’t weigh 170 pounds, it just means that you have to accept that you won’t be as torn at 170 as at 150. (This may sound very obvious, but many men assume that they can be as thin as they want at any body weight) .
Any bodybuilder who has done more than one show can tell you within a pound or two of exactly how much he will weigh when he has a fully defined 6-pack. It can also tell you when it’s 5 pounds away and when it’s 10 pounds away from a visible full 6-pack.
The only way you’ll know this is because you’ve been there before and you know how much it weighed the first time it happened. If you’ve gained 5 pounds of muscle since your last bodybuilding show, then you also know that your 6-pack will be visible at 5 pounds higher body weight than the last time it was visible. But you won’t know for sure until you go back to dieting to a visible 6-pack.
The point is, there is no real way to know exactly how much you will weigh when your abs are fully visible until you can see them.
So how do you find out how much you need to weigh to see your abs?
Easy:
Step 1) Lose Weight Until You Can See Your Complete 6-Pack
Step 2) Get on a scale
You can use calculators and estimators throughout the day, but the proof is in the mirror.
If you want to see your abs, forget about body weight and just diet until you can see them, most likely you are lighter than expected.