Further, those of you with pre-existing back problems should approach these exercises with extreme caution. For those of you who are tired of doing hundreds of situps and crunches for your abdominals only to find you have been thickening your waistlines, perhaps it is time to take a different tack. These exercises were created using concepts that dancers use to flatten their abdomens and to narrow their waistlines. They do work. Instead, the following exercises have been used exclusively at my Studio with great success.
Some exercises work mainly the external obliques.
Some work both sets of muscles. Those exercisers who have hereditary flat abdomens, those people who are much younger, and those who have NO excess body fat will find these exercises seemingly superfluous - for now. When they approach their mid-thirties, that could change dramatically. Unless you have a basic working knowledge of where the transverse abdominals are, how their fibers run, and what they do, the following explanations may mean little to you, but you can do the exercises regardless of your grasp of human anatomy. For those of you willing to try this, print this file and test these exercises exclusive of your other abs work for one month.