By the way I still have a bulging belly from my years of faulty ab training.

You should be able to stand not flexed! and have a natural inward curve.

I have seen the relaxed stomach inward curve on people.

Who doesn't want a tighter gut???? Conventional ab training sticks your tummy out!!

Go to the gym and look at all the serious weight lifters. I bet most will have pretuding bellies. Though they might have very strong 6 paks thier stomachs stick out like they are bloated.

I have nothing against weight lifting or even body building. But blindly copying a sport that requires NO function (except flexing and posing) is not smart if you're an athlete or want functional strength.

Now there are body builders the have functional strength but I don't think its the norm and again they generally focus on their sport which doesn't require function.

But thats who most of us learn our weights from...