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Learning karate at age 16, plus swimming, basketball, jogging and working out at the gym, have kept Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino looking buff. But the Jersey Shore star also thanks his parents for his great abs.

“I have always had an unbelievable six-pack,” The Situation, 28, tells PEOPLE. “It’s genetic. I am gifted that way. My dad was a Golden Gloves boxer and my mom has a small waist.”

The reality star has always been thin and athletic but in high school people started to notice. “I would show up at school and at parties and people would look at me and yell, ‘Oh my God! Your abs are amazing,’ ” he says. “They called me ‘Mikey Abs.’”

By the time he was 18, he began pulling up his shirt to show off his six-pack and he enjoyed the response he got from people. “I soon learned how to flex my stomach in various ways,” he says. “I found a technique where I would suck in my stomach and not push out. I can flex all day long.”

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Well, that didn’t take long!

Jersey Shore‘s second season kicks off Thursday night and there’s already drama between Angelina, who packed up her trash bags and left the house in Seaside Heights on season 1, and some of her tanned costars.

In an exclusive clip from the season premiere, Angelina and JWOWW are screaming at each other during a cab ride in Miami, where the cast is taking a break from the winter weather in Jersey, while Snooki and Sammi giggle. “You should know about trashy, baby, you’re from Staten Island,” JWOWW says.

Meanwhile, the guys are silent, riding in another cab.

Snooki’s laughing quickly turns to shouts, “You don’t deserve to be here, Angelina, and you’re a [bleep] white rat and you’re [bleep] pale and you’re nasty.”

Angelina’s reply: “Yeah, okay and you’re too tan.”

“I am tan and I like being tan, bitch!” Snooki screams as she exits the cab.

No wonder Angelina decided not to participate in season 3. Jersey Shore airs Thursdays (10 p.m. EST) on MTV. –Aaron Parsley