Stomach Muscle condition?

[SherryM]

Help! Not sure if I read it here or on the FORUM, but I read something about a condition in the stomach muscles or something like that that some of you ladies are experiencing and some exercises to do for it. 

 

Somebody even posted a link to check if you have this condition?

 

There was a clinical term but I didn't write it down. Some of you compared it to looking pregnant even though you were losing weight everywhere else... Does this ring a bell with anyone? I'd like to look into it further for myself. TIA

[MeadowLily]

The only condition I can think of is belly fat.  Belly fat can create its own atmosphere  of hormones in the stomach due to peri-meno/meno/post-menopause.   It can also happen from constant dieting or gaining/losing the same 10-20 lbs over and over and over.   Rebound weight gain over the course of a lifetime settles in the belly and it gets tougher to lose with every passing year.  That's why dieting is for the birds and weight stability is for the eagles.

 

I don't know if belly crunching helps the hormones.   Completely changing the way you eat does more for the hormones than isolated exercises.   Whole foods will transform the entire body, mind and soul.

 

SherryM - 

[SherryM]

Well, yes. I know stomach fat is a condition I'm dealing with for sure. haha. But this was something to do with the muscles separating or becoming weakend (more than usual) or ...

Grrr.  Can't find the words to describe it...

[MeadowLily]

Oooooooo, sounds scary.  I'd have to look that up on WebMD.    Now, I've heard of being "shredded"....but the muscles actually separating, yikes. 

[MeadowLily]

1. During pregnancy, the growing uterus stretches the muscles in theabdomen. This can cause the two large parallel bands of muscles that meet in the middle of the abdomen to separate — a condition called diastasis recti or diastasis recti abdominis.

2. Diastasis recti: How does pregnancy affect stomach muscles 

[SherryM]

Found it! Diastasos Recti

 

Ok. Phew.  Thanks. You just had to stand there for me. 

[SherryM]

Haha! Posted at same time.  Thanks Meadow Lily

[MeadowLily]

http://mutusystem.com/diastasis-recti-test-what-works-and-what-to-avoid.html

 

Here's the exercises to avoid.   Be careful.

 

 

 

WHICH MOVEMENTS OR EXERCISES SHOULD I AVOID?

Crunches, sit-ups, oblique (twists) combined with crunches; anything that  ‘jack-knifes’ the body, by pivoting at the hip and placing strain on the abdominals – such as straight leg lifts or holds from lying on your back and similar Pilates moves.

[missmary]

lots of info here: http://diastasisrectified.com/tag/katy-bowman/