getting rid of the curve

[trannykingtuck]

anyone have any advice on how to get rid of the waist curve via exercise? does lower body fat help? anything i can do at the gym? 

Comments

[supresmooth]

Twists with the medicine ball from side to side can help build your oblique abdominal muscles. Increasing the size of these muscles can help fill you out more to disguise the curve. You'll be wider, though, if that is an issue.

[randompariah]

Loosing lower body fat isn't possible without an overall drop in bodyfat.
Saxon bends are similar oblique builders to what supresmooth added. Holding a weight plate or dbs over your head bend from the waist, side to side. Not as easy as it sounds. Go light at first.
You can also concentrate on filling out your shoulders and lats too.

[trannykingtuck]

i figured as much. sad because i love me some ice cream. does this exercise do the same thing as holding a plate by your sides and bending?

[randompariah]

I don't think so, feels much more difficult. Anything held over your head will engage more core muscles than you ever dreamed you had. You can do your side bends, weight at your sides first then switch to overhead for triple the excitement. Lotsa fun! and pain.......

If you build it.....

[sunnygym]

Hey mate,
I'm a personal trainer and I get often get asked this question.
The culprit responsible for that curve is your iliac crest. The 'Mickey Mouse' shaped bone in your pelvis.
Needless to say, you can't do much about that.
BUT, you can work/build on structures to lessen the appearance of the curve.
A program designed to build shoulders, chest and upper back will help by broadening your upper body shape.
You can also work on building you Glutes, which will reduce it slightly in size and lift it up, again, lessening the curve somewhat.
Once you've spent some time building mass in these areas, a cutting phase will reveal the change in shape more evidently.
It'll take some time and hard work, but it can be achieved.
Hope that helped, mate.
Lee :)

Re: If you build it.....

[trannykingtuck]

thanks!!!!!!!

[roundballnz]

Have to agree with the others here - working on the shoulders/back/chest etc - will help take attention of the waist & accentuate the shoulders giving the illusion of that 'male' triangle.