What’s with the six-pack obsession? It seems to be the latest vogue whenever people talks about male beauty perfection. It doesn’t matter is your arms is flabby or your chest is saggy and your shoulder is narrow, if you have a six-pack abs, you’re an adonis.
This six-pack fascination is a novel thing. If we rewind to 2001, nobody cares if you have a six-pack or not. Back then, six-pack means a unit of 6 beer cans, sold together in a pack. So I guess this obsession came around in 2002-2003, where David Beckham starts getting obsessed to be a girl, metro sexual is the latest hysteria and young Indonesian executives starts developing extreme fondness to fancy english words.
But really, six-pack is probably the hardest thing to achieve. Unlike arms and chest muscle which you can train easily by lifting weight, abdominal area is the toughest meat to beat.
Few people realized that abdominal muscle are the easiest muscle to build. Few sets of sit-ups will do magic, because the abdominal muscles are a relatively small muscle group. However, in order to make this muscle visible and looks ripped you have to get rid of the belt of fats around your belly. That means low-fat diet combined with lots of cardio exercise (i.e. running, swimming, biking, but running is best cardio exercise to burn fat). So folks, what are your most favorite food and least favorite fitness activity? Yes, fatty food and running.
It makes a lot of sense now. The metro sexual hype, combined with its hard-to-get-ness, makes six-pack abs the number one parameter for a man to be defined as a hot stuff.
nah, six-pack is not the hottest stuff. Six pack may give you the hosttest chick, too hot that you cannot even manage her to stay near your six-pack perfection.
We’re not looking for (just) hot chick. We’re looking for chick that fits us, with or without six-pack perfection.
Define hot chick:
A geek chick, a chick that has special capability and competency :)