Here’s how you can get a flat stomach by tying a string around your waist

A mere string is giving crunches, planks, and diets a run for their money!

Update: 2015-04-03 12:59 GMT
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While the whole world is looking for easier and less painful exercises, physiotherapist Sammy Margo has come up with a new method to tone down the core, and gain lean abs, without heavy and sweaty gym workout. All one needs to do, she claims, is contract and squeeze in their abdominal muscles, release them halfway, and tie a string around them! 

According to Margo, people today are incredibly inactive. Not only do most people not have the time to go to gym, but they’re also intimidated by the idea! So, what the string really does, is incorporate the abs workout into a person’s everyday routine, and teaches the muscles to stay contracted all the time- while sitting, standing, walking- to the point where it becomes muscle memory. By doing this, those who make excuses against exercising and working out, can now do it all the time! However, this method isn’t restricted to those who can’t make it to the gym. Those than workout anyway, can take the string-method up throughout the rest of the day, making their muscles stronger and better prepared for their gym sessions, as the muscles are more functional; they develop faster.

Daily Mail quotes Margo saying,“The prospect of going to the gym two or three times a week might be scary for some people so we need to find ways of integrating exercise into daily life.” She also revealed that, “This will give you a flatter stomach, work your core, improve your abdominal tone as well as improve your posture.’

 Since this generation is often plagued with a series of back injuries, and obesity problems, Margo says, the importance of abdominal muscles and posture comes into major play. Posture also has an incredibly amount of influence on moods, insecurities as it is believed that muscle position affects flow and balance of hormones greatly. Additionally, it can also make a person look slimmer and more fit.

Researchers from New Zealand have revealed that a bad posture- that includes sitting in a droopy and lazy manner, and slouching- can spread a sense of melancholy, anger, and self-pity through a person, and completely ruin their sex drive. They also claimed that those who kept their shoulders broad and tall while giving stressful public speeches and appearances came off as more confident than those who were hunched over, students that held a strong posture during exams did better at them than those who didn’t, and overall, the better the posture, the less the negativity. 

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