{"id":106127,"date":"2023-06-30T19:11:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T19:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/?p=106127"},"modified":"2023-06-30T19:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T19:11:35","slug":"why-six-pack-abs-are-so-hard-to-achieve-and-maintain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/why-six-pack-abs-are-so-hard-to-achieve-and-maintain\/","title":{"rendered":"Why six-pack abs are so hard to achieve \u2013 and\u00a0maintain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many people start going to the gym in the hopes of achieving what has long been seen as the holy grail of health and fitness: six-pack abdominal muscles (abs). But as many people who have tried will attest \u2013 including celebrities, such as comedian Eric Andr\u00e9 \u2013 this can be far more challenging than expected. Andr\u00e9 even equated the experience of trying to achieve a six-pack with being like a full-time job in and of itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many reasons why \u201cgetting ripped\u201d is so difficult. It requires sustained hard work and a strict diet \u2013 and may also come at the cost of good health. &#8230; [<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-six-pack-abs-are-so-hard-to-achieve-and-maintain-207952\" rel=\"nofollow\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people start going to the gym in the hopes of achieving what has long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":216,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106132,"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106127\/revisions\/106132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnesstrainingforever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}