I taught myself to hold my tummy in just about all the time, habitually :-P . That's vanity for you! I'd heard that would help strengthen the abdominal muscles, but it didn't seem to do much for me. I've noticed more results from a couple of months doing crunches than from years of habitually sucking in.
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I saw some non-crunch ab exercises on the Today show, so I'll probably add those to my routine and see how well they help. They're all done sitting in a chair, and you do 12 reps of each one in turn. Then you do them all again. It's supposed to take around 10 mins all together.
1) The easiest one :-P . When you inhale, you push your abdominal muscles out. When you exhale, you pull them in. You're supposed to hold for a couple of seconds each time.
2) Touch each elbow in turn to the opposite knee.
3) Hold your arms straight out in front of you while holding a medicine ball or milk jug. Turning at the waist, you go left, then back to the front, then right, then back to the front. . .
4) While seated and holding onto the chair for support, you raise and lower your legs, almost like doing sit-ups, except it's the legs that are moving instead of the back.
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