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This Secret Exercise Move Can Trim Three Inches Off Your Waist, Says Expert
This Secret Exercise Move Can Trim Three Inches Off Your Waist, Says Expert
Before he was the Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger was known as The Austrian Oak. He was huge. In his heyday as a bodybuilder, the five-time Mr. Universe and six-time Mr. Olympia stood 6-foot-three, weighed between 225 and 235 pounds, and sported 22-inch biceps, a 57-inch chest, and 28.5-inch thighs. And his waist; can you guess?
Just 30 inches.
Like a lot of old-school bodybuilders, Schwarzenegger got that hourglass-shaped torso using a special technique based on a common pose used in physique competition in the 1970s known as the vacuum pose. Bodybuilders like Frank Zane, Lee Haney, Arnold, and others would suck in their bellies to emphasize the chest in competition. But the vacuum pose is a great exercise for the rest of us, too, even if we only pose in front of the bathroom mirror.
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