Your abs are NOT built in the kitchen!

Your abs are NOT built in the kitchen! That is unless your kitchen also doubles as your training space. This famous saying should be changed to:

“Abs are built in the gym (with resistance) and carved out in the kitchen.”

Like all muscles, your abdominals need to be subjected to hypertrophy training. By doing so, they grow, not by giving you a thicker waist but by increasing the density of your abs. The more dense your abdominals, the higher your body fat percentage can be while still having visible abs.

Of course, to see them in their full glory, you’ll need to reduce your body fat. This is where the kitchen part of the equation does matter.