Flatten Your Stomach while Driving

Below is an arti­cle con­tributed by Mike Geary, the founder of Six Pack Abs. Mike is a Cer­ti­fied Nutri­tion Spe­cial­ist, Cer­ti­fied Per­sonal Trainer, and a rock-solid guy who prac­tices what he preaches. He’s got a strange lit­tle tip for ton­ing up the abs that I wanted to share with you today.

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If you’re already a reader of my truth about Six Pack Abs man­ual, then you may already know this unique trick, it’s basi­cally a sim­ple exer­cise that you can do any­time, any­where to help get a flat stom­ach over time.

Now I will say that this exer­cise does NOT increase fat burn­ing, but it CAN help to flat­ten your stom­ach by strength­en­ing your deeper trans­verse abdom­i­nal mus­cles and hence “pulling in” a lazy stom­ach (aka beer belly or “pooch belly”).

It involves doing an exer­cise called “ab vacuums”.

I find it a good time to get in the habit of doing daily ab vac­u­ums while dri­ving on your daily com­mute or another time that would get you in the habit of doing them regularly.

(please make sure this doesn’t dis­tract you from dri­ving safely, I find that it doesn’t dis­tract me at all, it’s cer­tainly much safer than dri­ving while on the cell phone!)

Of course, ab vac­u­ums can be done any­where and don’t have to be just for dri­ving, but I’ve found that it helps me to remem­ber to do them if I do them at a spe­cific time when dri­ving reg­u­larly, this could be while dri­ving home from the gym every time, or per­haps dur­ing your daily com­mute to work.

Ab vac­u­ums are simple:

You can do ab vac­u­ums pretty much any­where, at any time.

You can do them stand­ing, seated (such as in a car), kneel­ing in a four-point place, or even lying flat on the floor.

The move­ment is as sim­ple as pulling your belly but­ton in as far as you can by imag­in­ing you’re try­ing to touch your belly but­ton to your spine and hold­ing for 10–20 sec­onds at a time.

Start by inhal­ing deeply. Then, as you exhale, start pulling the belly but­ton in towards the spine and hold it there for 10–20 sec­onds while just tak­ing short breaths. Repeat for sev­eral holds.

Get in the habit of doing this at least 4–5 days per week while dri­ving some­where and you may find that this helps to flat­ten your stom­ach more by strength­en­ing the trans­verse abdom­i­nal mus­cle (the deep abdom­i­nal mus­cles beneath the rec­tus abdom­i­nal) if you before had a “lazy belly”.

Like I said, this exer­cise doesn’t increase fat burn­ing, it only helps to flat­ten a round stom­ach that has lazy deep ab muscles.

If you want a true “six-pack abs” appear­ance, you obvi­ously still need to burn off the body fat that cov­ers your abs and that calls for a fully encom­pass­ing work­out pro­gram (not just ab exer­cises), a strate­gic nutri­tion pro­gram, and the right mind­set for success.

This idea of “ab vac­u­ums” while dri­ving is just one of the dozens of tips and tricks found inside my Truth about Six Pack Abs man­ual. Read more about it at truth about Six Pack Abs