3) Transverse Abs exercise:

To also pull your abdomen in, you need to work on the ‘corset muscle’, the one that aches as you laugh or cough.

Execution:

1. Go down on all fours (knees and palms) and keep your gaze focused either directly under your head or slightly in front of Don’t arch your back or strain your neck.
2. Forcefully exhale from your mouth till all air is fully expelled. It is essential that your abs be maximally contracted from this forceful exhalation. Pull your belly button upwards toward your spine and hold for a target of 8 to 12 secs.
3. Relax and inhale fully through nose after the hold.

Take one breath cycle of rest (exhale slowly out of the mouth, inhale slowly through the nose), then repeat for a total of 10 reps.

4) Hip Flexor Stretch Exercise: Fixes ‘pot belly’. 1 set of 1 rep to each side.

1. Stand with hands on your hip facing straight. Lunge one foot forward and go down till you are resting on the knee of the back leg and the foot of the front leg with front thigh parallel to the ground. Straighten the hand opposite the front leg upwards with other hand still on hip. Turn hip and shoulders and face to the opposite side (towards raised hand) and hold for 30 secs before returning to initial position.
2. Repeat with opposite side leg and arm

Additional exercises, that also helps to improve the ‘Hour Glass’ Shape for women. Of course men may also do them.

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