Check out this gem from 24 Hour Fitness' new magazine (You24):
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What's the point of drawing in my belly button?
When you draw in your belly button during any workout, you're firing off muscles that provide stability in your torso and lower back, says 24 Hour fitness manager Joe Spor. As a result, your workout isn't just safer, it's also more directly targeted at the muscles you're trying to build. Bonus: You'll also be burning more calories. "So you're sucking in your gut," says Spor, "but you're also shrinking it."]
Huh?
I'm glad I didn't pay for that...good timing with it, too. This article in todays NYT doesn't say anything about sucking you're gut in to burn calories...how'd they miss that?
Wow, a 24 Hour Fitness magazine. If the mag only sucks half as much as their gym, it'll still suck pretty bad (man, that was clever! )
Yeah, sucking is your stomach is stupid, brace your abs, don't suck them in. You want to increase the pressure in your abdominal cavity to provide support for your lumbar spine, not decrease it.
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I do not eat. I FEED.
I do not sleep. I RECHARGE.
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I think they really intend to convey what we would call "bracing." It just goes to show that describing exercises and physical movements is a very difficult skill to master. If more people realized that, Lou would be hailed as a national treasure.
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People should be hung for giving stupid fitness advice. Man, there are some dumb people out there. Like the people at my office that think that a reduced-fat peanut butter sandwich on white bread and triscuits is a healthy lunch.
Yeah, I just thought the 'sucking in the gut and shrinking it' quote was pretty incredible...not that some misguided soul would actually say that (assuming he wasn't misquoted), but that it would be published in a national magazine that is published by the same people that publish Men's Health, Women's Health, Runner's World, etc...(and has previously employeed a certain already mentioned national treasure).
Check out this gem from 24 Hour Fitness' new magazine (You24):
[INSTANT HELP:
What's the point of drawing in my belly button?
When you draw in your belly button during any workout, you're firing off muscles that provide stability in your torso and lower back, says 24 Hour fitness manager Joe Spor. As a result, your workout isn't just safer, it's also more directly targeted at the muscles you're trying to build. Bonus: You'll also be burning more calories. "So you're sucking in your gut," says Spor, "but you're also shrinking it."]
Huh?
I'm glad I didn't pay for that...good timing with it, too. This article in todays NYT doesn't say anything about sucking you're gut in to burn calories...how'd they miss that?
Or Hollowing....or vacuuming....or bracing....or drawing in....all the same. Didn't Stuart McGill manage to get the whole world off of this shit like 5 years ago? Guess it's true what they say.....that the scientists are about 5-10 years behind the practitioners....oops, Maybe it should read 'that the 24hr. fitness staffs are 5-10 years behind the real world'???
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Robert dos Remedios, MA, CSCS,
HCC (Hartman-Cosgrove Certified)
Director of Speed, Strength & Conditioning
College of the Canyons, CA http://www.canyons.edu/departments/pe/strength
"NO CHAMPION HAS EVER ACHIEVED HIS OR HER GOAL WITHOUT SHOWING MORE DEDICATION THAN THE NEXT PERSON; MAKING MORE SACRIFICES THAN THE NEXT PERSON; WORKING HARDER, TRAINING, AND CONDITIONING HIM / HERSELF MORE THAN THE NEXT PERSON; ENJOYING HIS / HER FINAL GOAL MORE THAN THE NEXT PERSON"
suck that gut in...
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