Can you sketch me a six-pack?
I love me a six-pack on a man -- abs, not beer. Sexy, yummy, proof of dedication...although I do think it can be intimidating if the guy is so into his cut abs. I mean, at some point it can turn from healthy and attractive to obnoxious. Anyways, I never realized just how obsessed some guys can be until I read about this new trend called abdominal etching.
Etching takes liposuction a few steps past crazy and into the realm of "Oh. My. God. People are doing this to themselves?" It is plastic surgery to achieve washboard abs that can't be achieved via endless crunches, carb-restriction or creative spray tanning. Basically, several tiny incisions are made in either the belly button or in natural creases of the abs. The surgeon uses a cannula - the same instrument you've seen Dr. Rey pushing in and out of peoples' bellies and thighs during liposuction) - to sculpt six-pack-like grooves into the fat layers to emphasize a muscular appearance. The best candidates, doctors say, are individuals who are already in very good physical shape (ie under 15% body fat - LOW). Or are Chippendales dancers. Or are batshit insane.
Here is what the results look like. (PS why do these models have larger breasts than I do?)
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Scary and i don't think they look all that good.
Um, what was wrong with the way he looked before?
I gotta be honest, I kinda like when a guy doesn't have a six pack. I don't want to be with a guy that looks better than I do in the ab department haha
This procedure sounded ridiculous at first but thinking about all the stuff women do to achieve the body they want..it's really not that crazy compared to the rest
And yeah I thought the guy looked awesome before..the after looked unnatural and weird
Ah, Leslie - that first link was a niiiice way to spend my lunch break:) If anyone wants more ab candy, google Michael Phelps, the Olympian. The second link though (the after shots) - whoa! I honestly thought they all looked better in the "before" shots. The afters looked fake. Although we'll probably get used to it - just like we did with fake boobs.
What a lot of people don't realize is that crunches are very ineffective at decreasing belly fat. Crunches build the ab muscles, but if there's a layer of fat on top, what's the point. The best way to get the natural six-pack is through proper nutrition/calorie control, cardio, and doing resistance training with your big muscle groups like the legs, chest, and back (these burn a lot more calories than abdominal muscles do). You can't spot reduce fat in certain areas, so doing crunches doesn't necessarily mean fat is being burned off in the six-pack area. On top of that, twisting movements are better for building the six-pack than standard crunches are.
Bat-shit crazy indeed!
If a guy were so much into his apperance as to have that done, I don't think we would have anything in common on which to build even a casual 5-minute conversation.
I hate to say it and it's probably wrong on many levels, but if someone is so preoccupied with their appearance, it almsot makes me wonder whether they're missing something else in their lives..and should get a hobby, or read the paper, or something. There's a healthy level of preocupation with one's looks, but that seems beyond that level.
That's just ridiculous. I like toned abs on a guy, but the ripped six pack look is just a little over the top. My husband has more of a "keg" than a "six pack", lol. I kind of like being the hot one in the relationship, lol.
Didn't Janet Jackson have surgery like this done at one point?
The "abs" are crooked.
