Try This Alternative Exercise To Flatten Your Stomach And Forget About The Dreaded Crunches
Exercise to flatten stomach:
There can't be many of us who haven't held in our stomachs at sometime in our lives in an attempt to look fitter, thinner or younger. Time after time the stomach or midriff tops the 'things you don't like about your body' poll in magazines.
So it's not surprising that there are so many stomach exercises claiming to remedy the problem. But do they really work?
Could popular abs exercises be actually achieving the opposite effect. After all don't all exercises that involve contracting muscles cause them to bulk up and therefore thicken your midriff?
Flatten Your Stomach? Look At Your Posture!
Why do so many adults dislike their stomach? Why do they stick out and cause us concern? To my mind, the two biggest factors that shape your stomach are your diet and your posture.
Stomach exercises will do little to alter your posture, in fact they will make it worse, and obviously nothing to change your diet.
If your posture is poor gravity is going to pull everything down and parts of you will start to bulge!
Check the photos below to see how your standing posture will cause your stomach to stick out.
He is not overweight but a poor posture is pushing his stomach out. See how once this is corrected how the stomach practically disappears.
Have a look at the next set of photographs below. The subject is no where near being overweight but in the 'before' photo the tension in her lower back is pushing her stomach forward.
In the 'after' photo see how the stomach is reduced simply by relearning how to stand correctly without using a single exercise. The muscles are now supporting the body as nature intended. A good posture will take at least 5lbs off your appearance and also reduce many aches and pains.
How To Improve Your Posture Without Exercise
This 56 ebook with video will show you how to flatten your stomach by improving your posture. This can be done without wasting time on exercises that ultimately don't work. A number of easy-to-follow procedures will help you to sit and stand taller and move with less effort.