Hey, what's up guys? I'm Scott from Muscularstrength.com and today
I'm gonna be talking to you guys about how to reshape your core or your midsection
But before we get into that I want to let you know that I am starting a live show and it's gonna first one's gonna
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I'm gonna be teaching you guys some simple tricks to help you tighten up your core now
Just like any other part of your body if you don't train those muscles on a consistent basis
They start to get a little soft
I'm sure many of you guys have had weeks where you weren't able to make it to the gym or able to target all
Your muscles properly and let's say you had to skip your arm day
And then all of a sudden you're flexing your bicep, and you go to touch it, and it feels kind of soft
And you just freak out and then you get to the gym
You smash your arms as hard as you can and then you're back to normal right it's like a sickness
We all have especially as dudes
but anyways
What happened is the muscles just start to get a bit
Relaxed because they haven't been training your body basically is always going to say to itself if it's not using something why does it have
to keep focus on it or
Why does that muscle have to stay strong and hard and big if you're not using those muscles then they tend to kind of
Wouldn't say wither away
But they tend to get a little bit weaker
because there's no force being called upon them to do otherwise and the same goes for the core and
Unfortunately the majority of us make sure we go to the gym every single week
And we hit legs we hit arms we hit chest and we hit all the main muscle groups
but the core can sometimes be lagging and
Aside from that a lot of us sit down all day long and from sitting down in our chairs
We just kind of let it all hang out, and we're bent over like this in this area
Just starts to get really relaxed a lot, and then as you're walking around throughout the day
I doubt the majority of you are keeping it nice and tight you're just letting it all hang out maybe even pushing it out
I don't know what you're doing, but there's a problem happening there
And now I've made videos about this in the past where I talked about
Utilizing an exercise like the stomach vacuum in order to work the transverse abdominus to try to help pull everything in nice and tight
But doing stomach vacuums a few days a week for a lot of you isn't going to be enough and if you forgot
What a stomach vacuum is it's basically when you breathe all the air out of your system you
Suck it in
and
You hold that for as long as you can and you do that for
Sets and reps okay now what I want you guys to start doing is making
Mental checks throughout the day to pull in your core and keep it tight and I guarantee you if you start doing this
every single day
You're gonna start to see a change
Not only the your waist size
but the shape of your
actual core as well the
Abdominal muscles all the muscles throughout here your obliques your serratus that entire area is gonna start to get tighter and tighter and the muscles
Are gonna look better and better because you're you're basically forcing them to by keeping them tense
And I'm not saying you have to walk around flexing your core so high that it looks like you're about to poop your pants
Okay, so it's not what we're trying to do but for example
Let's say you're sitting down at your desk, and you're at work, and you're typing on the computer
Instead of being kind of like this sit up straight, and then flex your core like this and just get a nice tense
that's going on right here
So you feel the muscles activating and as you're walking around whether it's outside at the house at the mall
Wherever you're going instead of walking around nice and loose. Just get a nice tense core going on and feel those muscles
Activating so that the muscles themselves are getting worked throughout the day
I'm telling you as you start to do this at first it might feel kind of difficult because the muscles are weak
They're not used to being tense like this, but if you start doing it every single day
It's gonna almost become second nature and what I actually started to realize is when I was in high school
What I would say about my early teens
You know I was like all of you guys when I was like 16 17 18
I was 130 pounds soaking wet but I thought I was super huge
So I was always walking around you know my chest out and flexing my abs
Whether I had a t-shirt on or off, but because I did that all the time
It kept my core trim and tight it really does work and another thing too guys if you're sitting in your car driving
Instead of trying to be cool and drive like this and leaning back with your core jumbled up
Try sitting up straight put two hands on the wheel like this and this will put you in a prime position
to flex your abs
And you can hold that while driving and again if you start doing that a lot it will become second nature
And you'll do it all the time so in terms of
How long to do it for sets and reps there really is no sets and reps you're basically
Simply gonna hold it for as long as you can then when you start to get tired you can relax
you can release and then just once you feel like you can start doing it again, then do it again
It should feel more like something you do all day
versus something you only do like when you first wake up or before you go to bed and
Speaking of going to bed another thing that I like to do is when I'm laying down whether I'm watching TV
Or I'm playing Doken battle on my phone just a Dragonball Z game by the way
Instead of just laying there and letting it all hang out
I'll just slightly tense my core while I'm watching TV, or I'm doing my thing and it just becomes second nature
And you do it all the time it feels great guys and before I wrap this video up
I do want to say a couple things that there are different ways to flex your core
And it's a specific way that I want you guys to be flexing yours so
Regular core, so we'll see like stage 1 is basically just kind of hanging out like this there's absolutely no tension in the core
Obviously you can still see some abdominal outlines, but there's no tension in my core right now
Now you can flex just the middle area and you can walk around and keep that flexed as well and what I mean is
This is kind of standing normal, and then this is flexing
You know mainly the middle portion of my of my ABS not really focusing on the sides
Just kind of flexing the rectus abdominis, and you can do this
But unfortunately the only way you can really maximize this flex and hold it is if you're standing upright
So you just have to sit down and you'll quickly notice that this doesn't really work as well
You don't feel it as hard so the way you guys are going to be flexing your abs the majority of the time is
It's gonna almost feel like you're flexing the entire area at once so it transforms from this
To that and you guys instantly see the difference I'll do it again from here
To here and when you flex it like this you'll notice it starts to pull in all the sides
And now I'm sure a lot of you guys are watching this video
And you're like how the hell am I supposed to know the difference between
Flexing this way or flexing that way if I don't even know how to flex my core to begin with well
Start off small and just try to flex this area to the point to where you feel tension in the side
And it's gonna be a gradual thing where you start to develop this mind muscle connection
Which is the main reason why this works a lot of you guys watching this video
You don't even have the mind muscle connection yet in order to flex your core to even do what I'm talking about
But the only way you can get there is by practicing
so
what I want you to do is whip out your phones and set an alarm to go off like every hour all right and just
Have it say flex core and that'll remind you to give you a nice keynote
Every hour to try to tense your core up, and I guarantee you even after a week
You'll see a huge difference in not only how your core is starting to look you'll see things starting to get tighter
But your mind muscle connection will go from like zero to a hundred
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I'm gonna start doing my live shows first one's gonna be this Saturday
And if you want to we can even talk about this
Concept on the show and I can explain to you guys more
And then maybe even get you guys on the show with me with your webcams
Trying to get your core flexing it actually probably be a lot of fun
So I'm really looking forward to it the show is gonna
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