Researchers at Auburn University tested four different types of ab moves, three were Pilates based (hundred and double-leg stretch, roll-up) and one was a regular 'ole crunch.
The results were the hundred and double-leg stretch were the most effective in engaging the transversus muscle. For those of you who don't know, the transversus muscle is the deepest layer of muscle tissue and works just like a girdle sitting under your obliques. If you can tone those baby they "suck in" and you whittle your waist very effectively.
The quote from the study is, "That's the deepest ab muscle, which pulls in the midsection and stabilizes the spine, giving you a flatter belly as well as more control during exercise and everyday movements," says lead authoer Michele oldson, Ph.D. professor of exercise physiology at Auburn.
So the next time you're in a mat class complaining to yourself about doing the hundred remember, tighter, higher, smaller . . .
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