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    Why You Don't Have Abs

    So you really, realllly want ab muscles. You even got a personal trainer to help you get them. He’s prescribed a strict ab routine for you, and you’ve been making good on the 500 crunches a day, for 6 months straight….and still nothing; not an ab in sight. Sadly, this is the case for so many people. Most trainers out there today are well-meaning but misinformed. Doing ab exercises will not “spot tone” your stomach flab, nor will it make the ab muscles show through the layers of body fat. Read and digest the five points below and you will begin to understand why your ab muscles are non-existant.