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The abdominal muscle everyone wants and almost nobody can see.
means A short, gym-floor clipping of 'abdominal,' used mostly in the plural for the stomach muscles you're trying to sculpt.
from Simply 'abdominal' chopped down to its first syllable — the kind of clipping English loves for gym talk (think 'pec,' 'delt,' 'quad'). 'Abdominal' itself traces back to Latin 'abdomen,' whose own origin is murky — maybe tied to a verb for concealing, since the belly hides the organs beneath it, but Latin scholars themselves weren't certain. The gym slang 'abs' is a much more modern shorthand, riding in with 20th-century fitness culture.
- singular myth
- There is no single ab, it is one sheet
- real name
- Rectus abdominis, segmented by tendinous lines
- visibility secret
- Built in the gym, revealed in the kitchen