Looking for a six pack, but need planing help

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Hey, I'm Will. This summer I'm going to try and get a six pack or at least close, but i don't know where to begin. I believe i am a mesomorph. I'm 16 and weight 135lbs. My height is 5'9" I have a defined abdomen, very defined arms(when i flex) and descent muscle elsewhere. No real excess of fat on my body. I don't eat too well. Breakfast is usually yogurt and OJ or just OJ. Lunch can be a sandwich and maybe some chips and too often fast food(when hanging with friends). Dinner is healthyish because my parents make it. Usually a meat, vegetable, a pasta or other grain and milk (we do order Chinese and pizza sometimes though). Also i often snack on chips, but somehow i don't gain weight. I don't have a sport aside from winter swimming. I would like to
1. Pick up an exercise routine for abdomen(and other area too, just not as intensely) I don't know if i'll get a gym membership but if it'll really help then i guess i can.
2. Pick up a healthy eating style
Can anyone here give me a good routine i can follow? that, i believe, will be the hardest part?
Thanks, Will
 
First of all, in order to get a six pack, it's very likely that you will have to do BOTH of those things you mentioned. I am also a mesomorph which in theory is the most ideal body structure for building muscle and burning fat. However, coming from a fellow mesomorph I know that you actually get the worst of both worlds, hard to build muscle, hard to burn fat. The tendency is for your body to maintain. That's a mesomorph.

Anyway, this is why it's even more important to make changes in order to change this tendency. You have to eat lean if you want to get lean. You have to workout if you want to build muscle. I would recommend joining a gym, if not, it would be helpful if you had workout equipment at home.

It's best to actually work all muscle groups, not just your abs. I mean your chest, back, shoulders, arms & legs as well. The reason is that your body tends to grow as a whole in order to prevent injury. That means you'll see better results by working all muscle groups than going into the gym and blasting out 500 crunches followed by 100 curls. Look around on bodybuilding.com for workouts or definitely YouTube. Check with the people at your gym too. At the gym I used to go to, they had sheets that had set workouts already made up. This might be the case where you end up going.

Good luck!
 
I disagree with the idea of a mesomorph having a hard time building muscle or losing fat. Want to lose fat? Burn more calories than you take in. Period. I am a mesomorph and I can burn fat like a machine if I monitor my diet and jack up the amount of cardio I do to burn more calories. Same deal with gaining muscle. Eat right, train hard, get enough rest. Done.

Having well defined abs is ALL about having low bodyfat. You can do 10000 crunches a day, but if your BF is too high, you are out of luck. Or you could do zero ab exercises of any kind and if you have a low enough BF your abs will show.
 
6 pack abs happen in the kitchen, not in the gym. Just as others have said, you need a low bodyfat to have 6 pack abs. Typically, you need to be under 10% bf to get that level. You will also need the muscle, but exercise alone will not get it.

5'9 and 135 lbs is actually quite small. (I am an inch taller and 70 lbs bigger while bodyfat is around 12%) You need to be on an overall strength and conditioning program to add more lean body mass to your frame. Build your program around squat, deadlift and bench press. Because the abs are your driving motivation, you should work them 2-3x per week. But, you really need a complete conditioning program.
 
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