How to get a V-shape and abs like that?

**Reactionz** · 10-07-2006, 03:51 AM

Originally Posted by lOver[bOy]

Hi all!

I was wondering how do you get a V-shape and abs like Usher? (here's a picture http://funweb.epfl.ch/site0506/danza...s/usher-04.jpg)

I guess you need to have some mass and be at a certain BF% or it's all genetic?

Thanks!

a relatively low bf% and work ur hip flexors to create this look. do thing like dumbell lunges, etc.

**Alfz** · 10-07-2006, 03:56 AM

Vtaper is ur lats tho

**dixon** · 10-07-2006, 04:25 AM

Originally Posted by shay14

Im with you on that now, im from africa, and comments like that are not acceptable, think before you say something

Yeah, Africa is just a fountain of prosperity and enlightenment.

**dts1789** · 10-07-2006, 05:14 AM

Originally Posted by paycheck

I mean the guy benches 135 so that tells you everything right there.

Doesn't tell you anything

**benjamin88** · 10-07-2006, 05:19 AM

u will never have a body that looks like ushers, its genetics, theres so many varibles involved, if u were the same weight, bodyfat and height, u still wuldnt have a body that looks like his

you can

a get bigger
b get cut

thats it..

**speedjunkie** · 10-07-2006, 06:54 AM

I saw a show where Usher said he works out 2 hours a day. LOL. If that's what you get from working out 2 hours a day he needs to hire a personal trainer or some ****. I bet he doesn't work out 1 min a day and that's just how he is naturally.

**xjae** · 10-07-2006, 07:01 AM

look at all these ppl saying "this guys body sucks" when they probably have a worse body than his...lol

to have abs..you need to be low in bodyfat

**SDC77** · 10-07-2006, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by xec

your steretypical ignorant view of 'ethiopians' angers me...i have a friend from that country and hes a very good guy...in some areas your dinner consists of stale bread and dirty water from a mud puddle...or you just slowly die of hunger.

but hey, im sure you would like to have 'abs' like this over ushers since he looks so horrible to you:

everyone has different bodybuilding goals, we dont all want to look like monsters, usher looks like he has a nice athletic & slim body with a pretty solid core, if he hit the weights hard he would get big...but he doesnt need to because thats not his goal..

Oh cry me a ****ing river. I was joking.

**Clean** · 10-07-2006, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by djartek

Here is what a V-Taper and Abs should look like

Usher has a V-Taper...LMFAO

No, this is a "REAL" V-Taper.

http://www.smart-weight-training.fr/...cutler-big.jpg

**DerekS95** · 10-07-2006, 10:16 AM

http://www.menshealth.com/cda/articl...0013281eac____

Enjoy

**Clean** · 10-07-2006, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by DerekS95

http://www.menshealth.com/cda/articl...0013281eac____

Enjoy

No offense, but those were some "soft" exercises for building a good V-Taper and it left out Deadlifting most of all. Though Deadlifting may not build a V-Taper as much as a Lat Pulldown or pullup, it is still needed for putting meat on those lats and back.

Lat-Pulldowns
Deadlifts
Pull-Ups
Seated Row
Seated Row with Lat Pulldown bar
1 Arm Dumbbell Rows

Refer to this for more

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/exer...ainMuscle=Lats

**DerekS95** · 10-07-2006, 11:02 AM

lol none taken. if you feel you can offer better advice then i did, GO FOR IT!

**coachfrickle** · 10-07-2006, 12:16 PM

Originally Posted by xec

your steretypical ignorant view of 'ethiopians' angers me...i have a friend from that country and hes a very good guy...in some areas your dinner consists of stale bread and dirty water from a mud puddle...or you just slowly die of hunger.

but hey, im sure you would like to have 'abs' like this over ushers since he looks so horrible to you:

everyone has different bodybuilding goals, we dont all want to look like monsters, usher looks like he has a nice athletic & slim body with a pretty solid core, if he hit the weights hard he would get big...but he doesnt need to because thats not his goal..

THAT IS MY GOAL. I'VE ALWAYS WANTED SOME ABS LIKE THAT MAN!!!! OH HE TURNS ME ON. and yeah like everyone said to get a v-crotch just lower your bf%.

**TDE** · 10-07-2006, 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by Reactionz

no those are ur hip flexors.
a V-shape/tapor is the shape of ur body from waist to shoulders.

how do u get ur hip flexors more defined?

**DerekS95** · 10-07-2006, 03:42 PM

Hip Flexors get developped in Oblique work. Hanging kee raises with the twist to the left and right work great.

**rockstar2be** · 09-02-2009, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by lOver[bOy]

So to have a v-shape you just need low bf?

No, you also need to work your lats and deltoids plus low BF

**rockstar2be** · 09-02-2009, 12:00 PM

Oh, then you need to work the obliques plus low BF. The V shape everyone else is talking about is from the shoulders to waist

**RuFlz** · 09-02-2009, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by lOver[bOy]

I don't want to look like him but I would like to have v-shape and abs like him.

Focus on lats, shoulders, smaller waist.. Sorry these guys couldn't give you a straight answer.. lmfao

**Brian_I** · 09-02-2009, 12:13 PM

Adonis (Apollos) Belt or Iliac Furrow

**k_townsfinest** · 09-02-2009, 12:40 PM

Old thread is old.

V taper is more about image/proportions and scapula stretching.

Wider delts add to look, thinner waist (don't overdo it on the obliques and the hip flexors), and of course lat work all help.

**fitnessnewb** · 09-02-2009, 01:31 PM

V taper = lats + shoulders + small waist(low bf) + take it easy on the obliques + (having hardly any traps helps too)
abs = low bodyfat, + work them out

**PositiveK** · 09-02-2009, 01:36 PM

Wouldn't u prefer looking like Usher in the Confessions video instead of that picture taken in 97/98 during his My Way days.

O yeah by the way Usher's the best

**biggerthanlavar** · 09-02-2009, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by Brian_I

Adonis (Apollos) Belt or Iliac Furrow

^ this.

**chriscussion** · 09-02-2009, 05:51 PM

i used to have a good V, but then i stopped and i lost it just lay down on your back, lift up your legs less then 6 inches off the ground, do that for a few reps and sets everynight and it works your lower abs which defines your V

**steelo79** · 09-02-2009, 06:38 PM

low bodyfat for the lower v. but you can't just "cut down" and magically have abs like those. if you don't already have a decent amount of muscle UNDER the fat, then you can cut all you want, and still not have a 6-pack. simply put, if you already have some decent muscle to work with, cut down. if not, bulk up and build some muscle, THEN cut down.

**CHIR0N** · 09-02-2009, 10:45 PM

lots of cable crunches, plus torso rotational exercises with things like medicine balls, and Russian crunches.

**bbdude1988** · 09-03-2009, 12:00 AM

Originally Posted by FatKidsOnMopeds

**** abs.

repped

**PaKIM** · 09-03-2009, 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by dixon

Yeah, Africa is just a fountain of prosperity and enlightenment.

are you ****ing serious? I'm far from African but you are just a racist ***

**binxlola** · 07-04-2012, 08:25 AM

u racist ass wipe!!!

**Mattash2g** · 07-04-2012, 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by binxlola

u racist ass wipe!!!

strong bump

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