This is a serious question one that i have been wondering for a long time about, but just have been too embarrased to ask. How do I know if Im sucking my stomach in. I know it sounds dumb, but hear me out, when i measure my waist i measure at how I look when i am walking around and then i just exhale and loosen up my belly and plop it looks like I am pregnant and i can feel my lower back loosen up as well as if it is not contracted anymore which leads me to believe that it holds my belly in. please I need serious input/
Most people hold their stomach under some form of tension. They don’t just walk around letting their stomach hang with no resistance unless they are obese and the mass of their stomach is too much to control. Those types usually also end up with back problems due to the extra load in front.
Look at a bodybuilding contests and you will begin to recognize when they are holding their stomachs in and when they relax.
That means most of the time, you are holding your stomach under some type of tension. That is normal. That is different from drastically sucking your stomach in which would obviously impair breathing by raising your diaphragm.
When measuring your waist, you should hold it under the same tension you normally do, not let it hang out as far as possible and not sucking it in trying to make it as small as possible. That alone would give a false reading and wouldn’t even be relevant for measuring clothes as that isn’t your normal posture. It would also be variable based on what you’ve eaten that day.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
When measuring your waist, you should hold it under the same tension you normally do, not let it hang out as far as possible and not sucking it in trying to make it as small as possible.[/quote]
I take three measurements: completely distended, “normal” tension, and vacuumed. When losing fat, all three measurements decrease.
[quote]CaliforniaLaw wrote:
Professor X wrote:
When measuring your waist, you should hold it under the same tension you normally do, not let it hang out as far as possible and not sucking it in trying to make it as small as possible.
I take three measurements: completely distended, “normal” tension, and vacuumed. When losing fat, all three measurements decrease.
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One would hope…
[quote]eengrms76 wrote:
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[quote]jedidiah wrote:
eengrms76 wrote:
One would hope…
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Me too.