Have you seen my stomach? It protrudes. I think squats and deadlifts (well at least at this level) makes you grow a gut.

I noticed this too. It's mostly flat in the morning, but as the day progresses, it grows convex. Poeple who don't lift have flatter tummies than me.

I wonder what causes it. I do stomach vaccuums whenever I can think of them.

Dirty bulking with Malaysian food will screw with you in more ways than you can count. And whey protein is not essential, it's convenient and it helps but essential? No.

if u consider skin with pimples is good. Then yeah.

I can count how many pimples I've had throughout my entire life. 6. Genetics bro. =P

Stress caused by these movements causes hypertrophy (no matter how you try not to have it) on all regions. All regions that are under tension of these heavy movements. And as you can expect, the torso takes a shit load of stress and there's only that much the back can help. After a point, the abdominal structure has to come to place to help with the load and hey presto! Hypertrophy.

Added, some people also do sit-ups (weighted) and leg raises, I suppose these also cause hypertrophy on the abdominal structure as it's just another muscle.

Somehow, swimmers have very flat abdomens. But they have wicked chests, delts and upper backs.

dont forget... their lats! muahahaha... =.=

Actually, for most parts, it's nutrition.

and incredible shoulder flexibility

No. Genetics, nutrition plays a relatively small part.

It's genetics. I had lots of pimples when I was younger, but my younger brother had none. We ate the same stuff.

well written.. wuuhuu!

bingo.

nice read and great discussion guys...

lol. no my friend. it is not. cutting requires cutting of calories and extreme fat burning which leads us to extreme cardio, lifting weights without extremely high reps arent going to cut you.

on the other hand, bulking up is mainly loading up on protein and heavy wieght w/ low reps

so u r saying bulking is easier than cutting?
u mean to say lifting heavy weights is easier than doing extreme cardio?
The only thing hard about cutting is saying NO to ppl when they ask u to eat stuff out of your diet.
nothing much else is that hard.

i still say bulking is HARDER than cutting.
to put on Lean Muscle Mass takes a shitload of TIME.
and to cut, just fricking 2-3 months and can look so much leaner.

hahahhaa... another idiot that says cutting is harder than bulking. =.=
muahahaha... bulking for learn muscle is x10 times harder than cutting.
cutting u need to watch ur diet, and cardio.
but bulking? oh well, u can try all u want, but sometimes u aint gonna be successful... muahahaha.... getting muscles is much much harder than losing fats. =.=

Dumb ass. You go post this shit on bb.com IFBB Pro section and see how many people will laugh at you. I hope you choke.

muahahha.... i knew it! =.=
hehehe...