

Most trainers will tell you it’s quite challenging to do both simultaneously and hypertrophy requires sufficient nutrients where cutting body fat requires a deficit. You can get V Line abs by reducing body fat and building core muscles.
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There is also a genetic component to how your abs look, some of it depends on your frame and the thickness of your skin so not everyone’s abs or v lines are going to look the same. So while you may be effectively reducing body fat, your upper abs will be the first things you see and the lower, the last. So in order to get any visible abs you must eliminate all but essential fat, which involves a large degree of discipline and a regimented training program (more on this later.)įurthermore, the V lines are one of the last things to become visible due to the fact that most fat is carried in the lower abdomen, for most people.

Although, a healthy range is between 20 and 30% for women, and 10 to 20% for men. For perspective, in the United States, the average body fat percentage is 41% to 28%. Regardless of how strong your abs are, they will not be visible unless you have an extremely low body fat percentage (it varies per person but generally this is around 15% for women and 10% for men). V lines are so hard to get because abs are hard to get! And V lines are among the more challenging parts of the abdominals to make visible.

This is one of the more challenging parts of the abdominal area to define because it is in the lower core, which is where most we tend to store the most fat. And as the name may imply, the visibility of said muscles together form the shape of a V. These muscles are visible from the top of the hip bone down to the pelvis. V-lines (sometimes referred to as the “Adonis belt”) are the point in the abdominal musculature where the obliques meet the transverse abdominis.
