There are many players in NBA who not only have no abdominal muscles, but even have big bellies, such as Harden, Anthony and Jokic. There are also some players who are famous for their strength, but actually have no obvious abdominal muscle lines, such as James, Kobe, Howard and others. In fact, the reason is very simple, not that they don't have abdominal muscles, but that their abdominal muscles are buried under fat. If the body fat rate of these players is reduced, they will also show graceful abdominal muscles, but this will often outweigh the benefits.

NBA players play basketball, not bodybuilding. They don't need bodybuilders' low body fat rate. In fact, the abdomen is the easiest place to accumulate fat, and it is difficult to reduce the fat in the abdomen. NBA players have their own training tasks in peacetime, and will not carry out unnecessary fat-reducing training for occasional exposure. Moreover, the fat accumulated in the abdomen is actually beneficial. In the fierce confrontation of NBA, the belly fat can protect athletes well. They are like a buffer belt, which plays a buffering role when the athletes fight or fall, and prevents the athletes from being injured.

On the court, whether attacking or defending, there are high requirements for athletes' waist and abdomen strength. For example, pull-rod layup is a great test for athletes' waist and abdomen strength. God of basketball? Jordan once staged the extreme operation of the air tie rod twice in a row, and the strength of the waist and abdomen was terrible.

Harden was also because? No? In fact, Harden's core strength is also very strong. His three-pointers in the European step and the backward step need strong waist and abdomen strength as support. If he really doesn't have any abdominal muscles, it is impossible to make these difficult movements.

Therefore, having abdominal muscles is not necessarily a good thing, probably because the body fat rate is too low. For example, some people still have obvious abdominal muscle lines without much training, probably because they are too thin, not because their abdominal muscles are too strong.