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Post by everso on Aug 18, 2009 10:39:24 GMT
It makes me think that all the modern obsession with dieting might be because women no longer wear corsets. They still want the same shape as when they did and everything had some measure of tight elastic built in, but without the garment to do it. You may well be correct. It must have been nice in a way not to have had to worry about a "spare tyre" years ago. You just pulled it all in with the aid of a corset. Damned uncomfortable though. Isn't the modern obsession with dieting also, to a large extent, to do with the media's obsession with the perfect figure? It's well known that most men don't hanker after a skinny woman. In my skinny days I always noticed that the men preferred someone built for comfort rather than speed. |
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Post by housesparrow on Aug 18, 2009 11:44:39 GMT
Round here it would be good if some of the people were a bit more obsessed with dieting. Many of the teenagers look unhealthily tubby.
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Post by everso on Aug 18, 2009 12:56:45 GMT
Try a day at Southend-on-Sea, Housey. We were there last Friday and I've never seen so many vastly overweight people in my life. Some real blobbies - together with their fat kids.
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Post by Flatypus on Aug 18, 2009 18:38:21 GMT
I'm not at all sure about that "situps don't work". I think muscle tone is being confused with size. Obviously if you are skinny, there is less to flop about and it is easier to think about what you do or don't eat than it is to keep pulling muscles in and use them instead of flopping around. You can see that a lot of beer bellies are not necessarily fat but the way men slouch at the bar because they won't use the groin muscles to keep the flab in place. If they did, it wouldn't flab.
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Post by housesparrow on Aug 18, 2009 19:08:20 GMT
Ah yes - the core muscles! A bit higher than the groin, aren't they?
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 18, 2009 19:30:23 GMT
Yer abdabs extend quite far down... www.pilates101.co.uk/USERIMAGES/abdominals.jpgOne of the best excersises for strengthening the abs is simply laying down on your back with one arm pointed in the air and then getting up while keeping the arm pointed up...repeat a few dozen times and feel that burn!!! AH |
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Post by Flatypus on Aug 18, 2009 23:31:54 GMT
Ah yes - the core muscles! A bit higher than the groin, aren't they? I can't remember exactly what the proper name is - it's 12 years since I heard it for heaven's sake! But they cover one of the overlooked sensitive bits just above the groin just inside the points of the hips and if you get that right it results in a slightly stripper's thrust effect where everything falls into place and pulls your back out (or puts it out  ), your bum in and down, and flattens the golden triangle and everything above. At first it hurts the back to be straight because we're too used to holding it bowed in. |
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), your bum in and down, and flattens the golden triangle and everything above. At first it hurts the back to be straight because we're too used to holding it bowed in.