Thursday, July 22, 2010

Six Pack-why is it called so??

With the Dard-E- Disco song from Om Shanti Om, the not-so-fitness-freak Indian audience got familiar with this term " Six Packs". Later on Ghazini starring Aamir Khan popularized an exaggerated version of it, the "Eight-Packs" (though medically it is impossible for a person to have it, as a normal person has only six sets in his rectus abdominis muscle).



So why do we actually call them six packs??

Actually a  six pack is a set of six canned or bottled soft drink or alcoholic beverage sold together on plastic yoke or a cardboard carrier.

From top they have a similar appearance of the tight abdomen muscles.
So rather than calling it with the medical jargon, fitness aficionados started calling it six pack.
I think its time now to grab your six pack.

1 comment:

Pankul said...

well its a different side of the story..

we never knew that infact never thought about it.so its good to know now. and u r doing good to also inform us apart from asking Q's.