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Why You Should Never Pull Your Stomach In During Exercise
Abdominal Bracing Video
Have you ever been told to pull your belly button in and hold it there during exercise?
Do you try to keep your stomach tight while lifting weights, working out, or while sitting at work?
Why? Where did this idea come from? The photoshopped images of anorexic models we see in fashion magazines or the heavily touched up photos of six pack abs in fitness magazines?
Should these images really be our role models for health and fitness? Probably not. (Just look at how terrible their posture is because of holding their abs in and tight - rounded shoulders, forward head, thoracic flexion, lumbar flexion, posterior pelvic tilt...a recipe for pain, injury, depression, and acid reflux among other things.)
Those fashion and fitness models are often very unhealthy, do not possess functional strength that matters in real life, and their habits of stomach tightening and pulling in can cause many negative health problems. Watch a video about why you should never pull your stomach in or keep your abs tight during exercise and learn what you should do instead.
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