Not everything is a waist with a belly button

Summer ... A sultry sunny day ... Beach ... I lazily fry the body exhausted by athletic deeds and thoughtfully contemplate on the wise policy of the "party and government." No, the evil predictions of miserable American analysts will never come true! Russia has a future, has it! How many pregnant women are around, you look, and the soul rejoices! But suddenly an overheated brain pierced: perhaps some women with impressive tummies have nothing to do with the glorious cohort of pregnant women! And these bulging bellies do not mean at all that their owners are diligently preparing themselves for the joy of motherhood: on the right, the four future “mothers” sip beer, the two “pregnant” on the left blissfully drag out a cigarette, and the one that, right on the course, suddenly lazily rolled onto her stomach, literally flattening by its exorbitant weight a hypothetical child ...

Inwardly shuddering, I begin to feel an irresistible desire to see among this pot-bellied population a creature that even remotely resembles a Gogol moth. The same thing, with a waist “no thicker than a bottle neck” ... It’s just like the sellers of baklava and churchkhela start wandering around in the sand and stumbling over numerous bellies, mournfully offering subscriptions to fitness clubs and coupons for mesotherapy and vacuum massage sessions. But first I would like to decide what kind of waist it is, because its bright image managed to disappear from the mass consciousness.

Cherche la triangle

Traditionally, in our country, women's waist has only one criterion - it is centimeters. If there is something on the female body that has a circumference of sixty centimeters, this “something” will be perceived as a waist! But if you look closely at the reference samples, captured on canvas, in marble and bronze, it turns out that artists and sculptors cared little for centimeters and kilograms. In whatever style they create, whatever size the original model is: from the muscular giantess Michelangelo to the rickety babies of Cranach - all perpetuated figures have gracefully inverted and selected oblique muscles of the abdomen, the so-called waist triangles.

It would seem that the presence of waist triangles is a feature that is inherent in all women. She, they say, is given from birth, she supposedly is always with any physique. Alas, elementary statistics show that waist triangles are found only on every third woman, if not less.

The reason for the lack of an aesthetically important narrowing on the body is obvious to many - it's overweight! And many are sincerely sure that it is only worth losing weight ... and right away ... If you are of this opinion, I suggest you carefully look at photographs of ordinary girls who are close in weight and height to the very Simonetta Vespucci, who inspired Sandro Botticelli. What did not find the triangles of the waist?

Meanwhile, the reproductions of paintings by Rubens and Botero depict women more well-fed, but the waist nevertheless on their cellulite body is clearly visible. Therefore, the presence or absence of excess fat on the sides does not mean the appearance or disappearance of the waist.

For the waist and fat is not strength, and sport is the grave

There is one rather unusual, but very common reason for smoothing the triangles of the waist, alas, many simply do not know about it - this is the wrong training strategy.

Legislators of fitness fashion for some reason believe that female beauty is supposed to be evaluated exclusively in a horizontal position. And how else do you command me to think if the whole training, on the abdominal muscles, takes place in the supine position or on the back, or, in an advanced case, on a special bench?

And they especially like to exercise the upper abdominal press. This is either a popular “squeeze”, or an adored “curl”, or something else, the same hateful to nausea that loads the intercostal muscles and lower bundles of the front dentate muscles. As a result, these muscles get excess tone, while the rib cage reflexively goes down and, please, the waist triangles have disappeared!

Look at the selection of photos above (clickable) - all girls have this hypertonicity: the upper two abs cubes and intercostal muscles are visible on almost every stomach without a waist. This is not to say that the strategy of such a training is initially vicious. It is possible these girls do not dream about a thin waist, but rather about the press - an elastic belly, drawn into neat 8 cubes. What can you do - boyish silhouettes are in fashion! And for this task, the endless lifts of the body with hands behind your head are quite suitable.

Dmitry Dionesov

Unisex is a product of modern civilization. One of the most successful fashion models of recent years, Dmitry Dionesov, has a waist circumference of 72 centimeters. And the average waistline for women in 2014 (do not believe it!) Was the same 72 cm! So now they are sculpting in fitness clubs not an elegant graceful oval, which is easy to grasp with palms, but a hard and embossed washboard with two overhanging handles on the sides ... Normal men, frankly, this waist does not excite.

Fitness Antiques

Of course, the mistakes of the training process are not the only reason for the disappearance of the waist, but it is definitely the most “offensive” - the woman tried and sweated - and the less enthusiastic young ladies got the men's delight. Although it’s easy to fix the situation. It is enough to add exercises for the torso that are performed in a standing position to the training program.

The simplest of these is the rotation of the hoop. It is not necessary to buy expensive weighted models, an old aluminum hula-hoop from the time of my mother's youth will do. In order for the hoop to rotate, the abs and back muscles must work in a coordinated and coordinated manner. The body should stretch as far as possible, outlining the triangles of the waist as much as possible, otherwise the hoop will simply fall! What is nice, now they sell collapsible hoops, they can be easily taken with you to the beach and twisted it there, actively preventing teletubbies from sipping beer.

In addition to the hoop, a thin waist will help to make another dusty grandfather of modern fitness equipment - a health circle. Spin on it for several minutes a day. Just be sure to use a body position corrector: a bag of sand on the top of the head. Rotate so that it does not fall. This small health circle upgrade will make exercise more effective.

And, in the end, an ordinary jump rope has the same wonderful properties. Jumping with it creates exactly the torso tension, which stretches the body and emphasizes the waist. In the early morning on the sea coast for several minutes of fun exercises to the sound of the waves. What could be nicer?