How It's Used

“Dr. Campbell's body image study, published in The Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology this year, also found that Ariaal men are much more consistent than men in other parts of the world in their views of the average man's body and what they think women want.  Dr. Campbell came across no billboards or international magazines in Ariaal country and only one television in a local restaurant that played CNN, leading him to contend that Ariaal men's views of their bodies were less affected by media images of burly male models with six-pack stomachs and rippling chests.”

—Marc Lacey, “Anthropology’s Dream Tribe,” The New York Times, December 18, 2005.

"I think of Tiger Woods walking up a fairway. His clothes move with him. The shirt as it blows against mid-body reveals the six-pack abs, for just an instant the shirt sleeve rides up to show the bulging bicep. And the posterior view—it's like Nureyev in mid-air."

—Kathy Renwald, "Muscular RS4 a man magnet," The Toronto Star, October 14, 2006.

“With its vast billboards displaying six-packs, cleavages and jeans at half mast, American fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has few qualms about using sex to sell clothes. So activists have questioned whether its name should be above the door of a children's hospital.

"One of America's largest paediatric institutes, the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, is facing angry protests over its decision to grant 'naming rights' to A&F in return for a $10m (£4.9m) donation. Under the deal, the hospital's casualty centre will become the Abercrombie & Fitch emergency department and trauma centre."

—Andrew Clark, “'Sex sells' retailer in row over hospital sponsorship,” The Guardian (UK), March 13, 2008.

"The promise of quick results has won over many trainers and people looking to get in shape—especially Hollywood stars, who often have very little time to transform their bodies. Chaske Spencer, who put on 20 pounds of muscle in just three weeks to play a werewolf in 'New Moon,' sang the praises of muscle confusion to OK Magazine earlier this month. His trainer also helped create the six-pack abs and bulked-up biceps featured in the film '300.'"

—Dave McGinn, "Hey biceps, you'll never guess what's next," The Globe and Mail, November 26, 2009, p. L1.

"But Dan, in my view, hadn’t mastered the spouse-parent balance, either, only his problem was the opposite: at times he ignored the kids. While reromanticizing, I asked him, testily, 'Do you really think a 6-2, 200-pound man who works at home with his wife needs to compete with his small children for their mother’s attention before those children leave for school?' Great. Now we were having a fight. Dan retreated to the bathroom to check his progress on his six-pack."

—Elizabeth Weil, "Married (Happily) With Issues," The New York Times, December 2, 2009.

Also Known As (AKA)

Abs of Steel, Rock Hard Abs, Six Pack, Six-Pack Stomach, Washboard Abs

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