Can doing sit-ups tighten a stomach that has fat over it?
Sit-ups are actually one of the worse exercises to improve posture. People tend to make two mistakes when it comes to abdominal training. The first is to believe that training the abdominals will lean or slim the waistline. It won’t. There are only two ways to trim the waistline. The first is to reduce fat, and that is done through a combination of resistance exercise, cardio exericse, and nutrition. The second is to work a muscle that is not visible called the transversus. The abdominal wall is actually slightly curved or bulged in the relaxed state. Working the “ab muscles” will simply strengthen and possibly increase the size of this. In order to narrow the waistline, this muscle must be pulled in. A muscle beneath called the transversus does this. The way to exercise the transversus is to perform a vacuum. This is done by pulling the belly button in, as if you are collapsing your stomach into your lower back. You can hold these for a period of time and strengthen the transversus to
