Why Your Protruding Belly Might Not Be Fat - The Fix

[GrimReefer]

Im skinny, but i look like im 6 months pregnant

[ardaarsen]

I had it for decades. I have always been a gym rat too. Thick pecs, thick arms but protruding belly. It turned out my lower ab muscles were weak. I had to change my training. I do daily ab exercises.
Now I got flat stomatch after a year of training. Vacuums, front squats, leg raises, reverse sit-ups helped me the most.

[thorie]

For me, I was very skinny with a fat belly. I thought it was just a part of getting older. Actually, it turns out I had SIBO and a very severe microbacterial imbalance in my gut. Got a very detailed test that showed me the levels of good and bad gut bacteria such as H.Pylori, and even though I thought I was eating healthy, my scores were all very bad. So I needed to get very specific microbacteria and diet changes to specifically target overgrowing strains. After 3 months of treatment, my belly was flat as a pancake. Also, my gas, indigestion, and stomach pains went away too. If you're thin and have a belly, get this checked with gut bacteria diversity test panel. It's very much worth every penny.

[gabi]

I have noticed my belly changed after I started doing yoga more frequently. I think the poses from yoga might be helping me with this. Even though I was already skinny before, it's like the shape of my belly is different. This video is helping me understand it.

[ItsMe_only]

Quick and to the point. Thank you!!!! I've been exercising for years and I don't have abs. I did have an interior tilt problem. Hopefully this works.

[mlangland]

It worked. I was bloated. I took 5 deep, but relaxed breaths. Minutes later I had 4 large burps. My bloating disappeared.

[SheepWaveMeByeBye]

When I was a teen a read a book about breathing written by a women who was very inspired by buddhist teachings. She taught me the right way to breathe was into the soft, unstressed belly and avoid the hard, stressed rib breathing. Rib breathing was harmful, she stated quite clearly. It was the cause of stress and multiple ailments, she wrote. I remember thinking "huh, I breathe into my ribs a lot. Better try not to." I practiced avoiding "rib breathing" over the years and now I'm a skinny guy with a soft, rounded belly. Thought I just got hit by bad genetics.
Now I'll experiment with Conors method of breathing over the next months. If it works I'll celebrate by burning an album with hippie music and write a letter to the author of that book telling her not to disseminate anatomy taught by people living in medieval monasteries.

[daddy]

Abdominal obesity. Anterior pelvic tilt. IBS type symptoms such as what you’ve mentioned. Genetics, you name it. That being said I do strongly recommend that if you have this issue and it makes you self-conscious. Consider working on exercises that strengthen your core stomach upper back and your butt so it will help you with your posture and not make it look as extreme. Eating well is good for everybody. That means working on your gut health and eating fermented foods and or whatever helps your particular body. That’s going to vary from person to person. Really working on aligning your entire posture not just parts of it. Your lower back with your mid back with your upper back with your shoulders with your neck with your head all the way up from the top of your head to the end of your tailbone. Figuring out what the most natural position is but would also of the most proper is is a bit of a challenge but it will help. I would say that mewing and trying to fix my chin is one of the reasons it put me on this journey as well as being tired of looking pregnant and having a Pelvic tilt. I gained weight and that just made the entire thing look worse. I’m getting back in the gym and I’m getting stronger now and it’s getting better. I also got an inversion table which I do think is helping me decompress my spine and let my back straightened out.

[emaddarawsheh]

Pelvic is most underrated from doctors and people to be in general, it can effect many things in our bodies that traditional medicine can’t fix, in my case for example as a make it effected my knees, +sciatica and prostates gland

[travinatolbert]

It’s crazy I’m seeing this .. I’ve been working on my posture and I’ve been having PAINFUL gas and I knew it had something to do with changing my posture but this made it make sense!!! Thank you ❤

[atheerarrak]

Finally I found someone who explains it all, thanks man

[hybridvenice]

I'm confused. At 0:40, you talk about the pelvis expanding and contracting during inhalation. That isn't possible. The pelvic bones are connected to the sacrum of the spine at the sacroiliac joint by tough ligaments. The pelvic bones also connect to each other by the pubic symphysis, which is also tough and largely immovable. The sacroiliac joint and pubic symphysis absorb impact (e.g. from jumping), but don't flex for breathing. In fact, the pelvis expands in special circumstances, like pregnancy, where the hormone relaxin causes ligaments to become loose to enable childbirth through a widened pelvis. In summary, the pelvic floor muscles do cooperate with breathing, but the bones do not.

Also, at 2:22, you talk about having your client exhale beyond what he normally would. It isn't normal for people to regularly exhale beyond tidal volume (normal breathing).

I think the whole point of this video is that people with protruding bellies aren't in the habit of forcefully and fully exhaling. But that's pathologizing what is normal biomechanics. Anyone who fully exhales will look thinner. What's probably more helpful is building transversus abdominis strength to reduce waist circumference.

In summary, I think you're slightly addressing the topic, but 1. mention incorrect facts and 2. do so by proposing the incorrect reasoning. It's honestly frustrating to see misinformation get so much attention and praise.

[jellybean]

This might be what I suffer from. I can literally hear the gas moving around in my stomach when I lay down. No matter how I exercise and diet the weight comes off my chest, butt and thighs but my belly stays the same

[curiousnaba]

I've never been skinny but throughout my youth I've been more toned because I played sport, but even when I was the most fit, only the bottom of my belly stayed the same. And I swear by it when I meant that I was fit, I played volleyball and basketball competitively for years as well as other sport activities on off-seasons (running, ultimate, and even the gym) but despite being fit I could never get rid of that small flab of fat. This might be the reason why. I wish I found this sooner so I could start earlier but its better now then later. If I remember to come back here I'll make sure to give an update! Thanks so much for such an informative video!

[herbjergens]

Thank you young man for trying yo help people with this issue. You seem genuine and caressmatic. Thank you.

[nonnalovepriceless]

People have been saying
Are u pregnant ?
No I have disastrassi recki
I’m so fed up

[lorenabuencamino]

I feel more bloated lately and I noticed my "pouch" belly seemed to increase. I thought it might be the effect of oncoming menopause but when I saw your video, I started thinking maybe I have air inside my abdomen that can't get out. I really want to try your techniques in inverted pose & breathing, but how or where should I start.

[ItsMe_only]

Thank you so much for all of this!!! Short and to the point. I have the tilt and the breathing problems.

[donnataylor]

About 35 years of my odd shaped belly, since as a teen I felt it stuck out then sub consciously I suck in all the time. Reckon I've been chest breathing since then 😳
Will take a look at your website 👌👌

[peterrimac]

Intermittent fasting reduces the water, air and bacteria build up in the stomach. Try skipping 1 x dinner per week then 2. Increase to all day fasting as you get more confident.