Abs Week: Tummy Love

The thing is I love my abs. I honestly and truly do. I don’t know very many women who are able or willing to say the same, women who are happy with what they've got going on around their tummies.
"Ann"



Like "Ann", I don't know many women who are truly happy with their stomachs, and I seriously doubt you do either, dear reader. Today we're celebrating the rare breed that are. The rare breed who with diet, discipline and sheer hard work have beaten the biological hand that nature dealt them and sculpted away their natural feminine fat. And what they have revealed are six-packs so satisfying that they just have to show them off to the world.



Back to "Ann": I have gotten to a point where I am completely and totally confident in the way my stomach is shaped because I have gotten there the healthy way. I wasn't swayed by the quick fixes of diet pills or fad diets or anything like that. I have been able to do this by watching what I eat and putting in the hours upon hours of blood and sweat and tears to make myself stronger and leaner. It finally shows.


Over the last two years or so I've pushed myself up to lifting three times a week, running multiple times a week. I do at least a 15-minute ab workout 5-6 times a week. I have paid attention to what I eat, being careful to focus my meals on lean proteins and lots of vegetables. Let me tell you what that has done.

It makes me pause for an extra few seconds if I happen to walk in front of a mirror shirtless.

It makes me start counting down to summer when I’ll be able to strut just a little bit more in that polka dot bikini.



As a result of their efforts, what "Ann" and the women you can see here today have that the majority of women don't have is CONFIDENCE. And confidence is an attractive quality for a woman to have. Especially when she's showing that confidence by lifting up her hoodie/shirt/vest etc. and showing off her abs, or, even better perhaps, strutting along a beach in a polka dot bikini!



Female muscle heads like you and me 'get' "Ann". We understand why she would do what she's doing because we appreciate the results so very very much. And we really don't understand why someone would not want their woman to have sexy abs. Do guys like this actually exist? Are there really guys who would look at a woman like "Ann" and think she would be OK if she had a belly rather than a six-pack? Hard to believe, but then again I'm not the best at seeing things from the point of view of the female muscle unlovers of this world.



Now here are a pair of interesting images. They're not just lifting up their tops to show off their abs, they're lifting up their tops with their teeth! A whole new sub-niche of female muscle photography may just have been born...



The lady on the left is unidentified, and has got herself slightly cross-eyed in her efforts here, which is not the best look but should nevertheless be applauded, but on the right we have Nadege Pedretti and despite her lack of muscularity elsewhere, I think we can all agree she's got sex appeal in spades.



Of all the current female bodybuilders, few exude the kind of self-love that drives the likes of me and you wild like Suzy Kellner. Her recent fitvids clips are a case in point - if you haven't seen them, I suggest you move heaven and earth to do so. At the end of one clip, she finishes a set of hanging leg raises, struts away from the camera, past a couple of open-mouthed male gymgoers, then turns back to the camera, in full view of those men, and then, grinning from ear to ear, hits three or four incredibly sexy poses. And no, I'm not sponsored by fitvids, but really, move heaven and earth to see Suzy in her element.



And here's another woman who can't get enough of herself showing herself off to the likes of you and me, perennial FMS favourite, Cinderella Landolt, who, we believe, is currently 'recovering' after having breast implants. I can't say I'm either pro or anti cosmetic surgery, for me it all depends on how much, how and where, but whether you think Cindy should have left well alone or not, I bet you can't help being curious about the results. And knowing there's a legion of fans out there waiting for the first pictures of her new self is probably not too bad for Cindy's self-confidence.



And we begin as we started, with "Ann": I am not perfect by any means, but being able to say confidently and completely that I love this part of my body, my abs, is something I will always be proud of. Always.

Yeah!

And more of that part of the body tomorrow.

Meanwhile, you can read the whole article by "Ann" (although there's not much else besides the quotes) here. And don't forget to vote for your personal Abs Queen or Queens (see Saturday's post).

Enjoy!