Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 379, Messages: 54577

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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Fact or Myth??

stephnik2001
stephnik2001
Posts: 1
Joined: 2009/01/04
United States
2009/01/04, 07:41 PM
I'm new here but have a question about the stomach. I've had 3 kids (twins) and was stretched about as far as I could be stretched. I saw an episode from the "Doctors" who had a "specialist" who calimed that no amount of exercise would "fix" the stomach area. He said that no matter how many crunches you do that it will not pull the ab muscles back together, of course their recommendation was to have surgery and the muscles would be pulled together again or something along those lines. I know cardio and calorie reduction will burn the fat but what about the part about the actual muscles?? Is this fact or myth?
asimmer
asimmer
Posts: 8,201
Joined: 2003/01/07
United States
2009/01/05, 11:49 AM
I think stomach vaccuum exercises can help pull it back in and core training will help you. It depoends on if your abs actually seperated or if you just pooched out.

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abbyray
abbyray
Posts: 14
Joined: 2009/01/02
United States
2009/01/07, 09:45 AM
It is a fact that once your stomach muscle is separated the only way to put it back together is by surgery. if you absolutely can not live with your stomach the way it is i think you should consider a surgery also check with your insurance company they may cover a part of it.