Trick for Nearly Instant Flat Abs: Balloons?

Don't worry, that's not a "before" and "after" pic.image: wikipediaSo when I was online digging up various sorts of strangeness for the Weirdest Weight Loss post, I came across a "Daftest Diet" article from the Daily Mail. It included a tip from the book "Six Weeks to OMG: Get Skinnier than All Your Friends," which sounds, overall, highly annoying.But a tip it offered seemed intriguing: it's a simple way to engage and strengthen the transversus abdominis muscles.As you are probably aware, your transverse abs are the handy muscles deep inside that pull your belly in, and probably do other important things too but whatever. The TVA's often get overlooked in favor of the better known rectus abdominis, which people work to death in search of those elusive six packs (that would be more easily obtained by abstaining from a few more six packs, but that's a whole 'nother topic).Have you ever looked in a mirror, sucked in your stomach, and instantly felt like you dropped 5 lbs around your midsection? That's the effect I wouldn't mind 24/7, or at least during waking hours.  Is that too much to ask?The simple trick? Blow up a balloon! Over and over and over!An interesting experiment--wanna hear how it went?But first off, the instructions!To plagiarize er, I mean paraphrase the Daily Mail:1. Purchase a pack of mixed balloons (some easy to blow up and some more challenging pretty much f--cking impossible).2. Start with an easy balloon and stand in front of a mirro...
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