Six-pack Shortness

I’ve spent many days in pursuit of the elusive six pack. I’ve embarked on fad diets, rigorous home workouts, and strategic fasting only to fall short of that picturesque rippling vision of perfection. I’ve come to accept the fact that my Jr. Mr. Olympian/ Brad Pitt fight club body may never come to fruition. Maintaining a flat non-overly protruding tummy post-pasta will suffice.

I wouldn’t consider myself a fitness fanatic but a noticeable pooch does irk me. Witnessing the hoards of dad-bods and beyond flooding the streets, I’m often perplexed of how one can accept letting their body go past a certain point. General fitness to me seems so instinctual, and vital to invigorating the mind through flooding the brain with endorphins, optimizing health, and of course boosting the ego with pre-shower flexing in the mirror.

I can’t claim to be the most consistent workout aficionado. I have an incredible weakness for toffee chocolate, patty melts, and burrito supremes, but I try to taper off these indulgences by going carb-less/low-carb until the evening time because apparently our bodies are less likely to convert glucose into fat near sunset. That’s just some bro-science I’ve garnered from the interwebs. But regardless, I may just have have a slight case of body dysmorphia as when there is an inkling my body is slipping out of control I will embark on an OCD-induced highly structured workout regimen that will kick-start me back to an acceptable baseline.

But I digress from the original theme of this rant which is the illusive six-pack. Could it be a result of my Filipino ancesrty and the countless rice meals that go back generations which have genetically influenced my abdominal region to reach only a fixed pinnacle of muscularity? Or, do I lack that Tony Horton-esque will power to “bring it” enough to get me that Adonis-like body? #p90x.

In the end, does it really matter? Shaping my abs to the point of acceptable rippularity should certainly be at the bottom rung of my priorities in life, but it would be nice.