I suck in my gut all day, though I really don't have a gut.

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I'm fairly tall and lanky, yet I still suck in my gut all day everyday. It feels weird to let it relax.

Is this just a guy thing, or girls too? Vain, vain.

― andy --, Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Pics, please.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

let your freak flag fly, andy

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Change it up, man. Try sucking in your forehead or your calves.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Try sucking in somebody else's gut.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

It's really good for your muscles and posture to keep it sucked in and it becomes second nature to hold in your stomach which helps when you get a little older and not so lanky. And PS girls do it ALL the time, gut or not. In fact I thought it was a total chick thing. I am glad to hear that guys do it too!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

girls suck in their guts all the time?

i used to try to do that occasionally when i had more of a gut but it was just too much effort.

― julialoggedout, Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

try sucking in that fat on your arms!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

well I do, shouldn't have spoken for ALL girls. When I have talked about the compusion to do it, my friends (at least the girls) say they do. My mom told me to do it when I was little and it's like I am compelled to do it for the rest of my life. It is a little weird I admit, but tis just one of those things that a parent tells you that sticks with you and you can't seem to shake, or don't think about.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes when I drink heavy ale all weekend, I WILL have a gut, so the sucking-in becomes mandatory.

― andy --, Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Is it true you should do it when you're doing sit-ups? I think I heard a long time ago that if you don't while you're working out the muscles can actually grow bigger and stick out which is exactly what I am trying to combat when I do sit ups, or is this just an urban myth?

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

I think my posture makes me think I have a gut, but when I truly stand up straight, the gut's really not there.

― andy --, Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

I instinctively do this when I wear really tight shirts, which I think look really good on me so long as you don't see the emerging paunch. It's scary how quick you can get one of 'em too - I ate like shit through college but still stayed skin-and-bones thanks to running, playing tennis, walking around campus - now I eat way healthier but my office job has rendered me pretty much completely immobile, hence the weight gain. Just cutting out regular soda caused me to drop about 5-6 pounds, now for the rest...

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

You go, man!

― andy --, Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Is it true you should do it when you're doing sit-ups?

Believe it or not, yes.

I've never thought of it as "sucking in the gut," but pulling the lower abdominals back toward the spine while performing any ab exercise = classic.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

i dont suck in my gut, and i have a gut. SHAME ON ME.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

I suck my gut in looking in the mirror cos I hate my beerbelly paunch. But walking around like that all day sounds like too much bloody effort. Does it do the muscles good, like situps?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Someone once told me that flexing your abdomen for ten seconds was equivalent to one sit-up. I have a feeling that is not exactly true, but I'm sure it strengthens the muscles, anyway.

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Is it true you should do it when you're doing sit-ups?

I don't understand this! How does one do sit-ups without doing this? Isn't clenching abs/sucking in gut the same thing?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

You can let your abs puff up/out while doing situps. Dud.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

You should hold your stomach in while doing sit ups and most exercises, I've been told. I think it helps prevent back injury as well as just generally strengthening your abs. I briefly went to pilates and the instructor was crazy about flexing your stomach (as if you expected to be punched in it) all the time but I decided that's no way to live.

― isadora (isadora), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

I think I do this, too, I don't really have much of a gut. Vain vain vain is right.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

I do this. I used to REALLY do it when I wore a tightish shirt, but then at the end of the day I would feel kind of tense and stressed. I don't wear tight shirts anymore.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I got a gut, but sucking it in is way too much effort.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Friday, 17 June 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

hands up everybody who sucked in their gut when reading this thread or just the title, even?

― StanM, Friday, 17 June 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

WHAT does it mean if you only have a gut about 1 or 2 weeks a month?

― Vichitravirya XI, Friday, 17 June 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

WHAT does it mean if you only have a gut about 1 or 2 weeks a month?

water retention.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 17 June 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

hm. either that or malnourishment i'm guessing

― Vichitravirya XI, Friday, 17 June 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

I’m tall and have a bit of a gut; I don’t suck it in. just stand straight with your shoulders back and it doesn’t show. It’s only when you slouch it shows.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 17 June 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

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