In the spirit of belly-management :sneaky: For those who love movies & TV...
The following exercise will not cause weight loss or muscle definition. It tightens the interior abdominals, whose main function is to keep your organs inside where they belong. What tightening them does? Shaves inches off your waistline, as the super buff (and completely invisible) muscle groups hold your guts in tighter to your core.
TWIST!
What you need:
- A broomstick*
- Something to watch on TV to keep you from going mad with boredom.
- Space enough not to be knocking shit over with the broomstick
What you do:
Stand comfortably, legs a little apart, and prepare to stand up straight/ shoulders back.
Place broomstick over your shoulders
Drape arms comfortably over broomstick
Twist left (easily) Twist right (easily)
Repeat a few thousand times a day :D Yeah. I'm serious. Hence the TV show. But, like with anything...start slow. Maybe 5 minutes, or during one commercial break. Work you way up to an entire episode.
Me blathering on:
When done right... This should be an almost effortless exercise. Be very relaxed about it. Won't make you sweat, and tensing muscles actually defeats the purpose. Only twist as far as is easily reached; don't stretch for "more" (that works your back) and don't worry about speed. Also don't worry about sucking in your gut. Just lazy like twist back and for and back and forth. It's shocking how exhausted your abdomen will be the first few days.
LOL... Even when I'm fit, I twist a few thousand times a day (about 1 movie) for a few months every couple years. And every time I'm all shocked at how tired and sore "muscles I didn't even know I had" are! When I'm fit I generally lose about 2" to my waistline. When I'm all fat & knackered (like now) I generally lose about 6"-9" from my waistline. All the fat is still there / and none of the sexy muscles get all pretty. It really is "just" from getting organs in all nice and snug where they belong!!!
Important
* The broomstick is absolutely necessary. In order for the interior abs to be doing the work, here, your arms need to be "up" & "out" away from your body... But if you hold them there instead of drape them along a pole, it makes you use different muscle groups to twist (intercostals, trapezius, abs, shoulders, & back... Not your interior abs). It "feels" like it's doing more to hold your arms out, but will not be hitting your belly and sucking your organs in where they belong. <chuckling> Yet another case of 'feelings aren't reality'! ;)
