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Tips for fab abs.(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Byline: Jack Komperda
Five battle-proven (and simple) exercises for shaping your tummy (according to Dr. Shirley Sarmon, professor of physical therapy at Washington University):
1. Suck in your gut: Sounds simple enough. It can be done just about anywhere, too. Concentrate on pulling your navel into your spine with slow, controlled movements. The motion contracts and tightens the transverse abdominus, the key muscle giving people a small waist because it wraps around the whole of the abdominal wall.
2. Crunches: Trunk curls directly target the rectus abdominus, helping define the familiar six-pack shape of your stomach. For beginners, start by ...
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- Newspaper article from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) July 14, 2003 700+ words
...the pubic bone. External obliques aid in twisting...underneath the external obliques and run diagonally...direction of the external obliques. Internal obliques...versa. 4. The transverse abdominis is the thin sheet...
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- Newspaper article from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) July 14, 2003 700+ words
...the pubic bone. External obliques aid in twisting...underneath the external obliques and run diagonally...direction of the external obliques. Internal obliques...versa. 4. The transverse abdominis is the thin sheet...
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...torso like a corset. The external obliques form a Vshape down the sides...deepest abdominal muscle, the transverse abdominis, also works during these...obliques, especially your external obliques, are able to give quite...
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...for core strength is usually the transverse abdominis, a deep abdominal muscle. The...doesn't force you to activate the transverse abdominis. Self-Test SLOW SIT-UP Lie...train with exercises that work your transverse abdominis, two days a week at the beginning...
Source: HighBeam Research, Tips for fab abs.(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)