Let's talk about torso's for a few minutes. Yup, I've been awake for a long time thinking. Actually, I've got a head cold and been snowed in for a few days so I've had a lot too much time to think. Some of you, who have been at 3fc for a while, know that I do this ruminating thing once in a while ... ignore me. Lot's of people do.
If you actually have an awesome torso ... please chime in!
Let's assume for the sake of simplicity that your torso is only that part of you between your bra band and your hip bones. (boobs are another story and don't even get me started on lower bellies and c-section scars). Okay?
Lay on your back on the floor with your knees up, like this o_/\_
Get hold of your lower ribs and check it out. Poke along down to your hip bones. Look! You have a torso! Now, find your xyphoid process (cool word, huh?) It's just the lower tip of your breast bone. Poke your way down again until you reach you belly button.
If you're anything like me, it's easy enough to find that xyphoid thingee but as I poke further down, I become mired in much softer stuff. It's fat. But if you poke deep enough, you'll find muscle.
Now you can go check in a mirror but I assure you that your torso has a back side too. You've got spine there and on either side of your spine there is muscle. It holds you up! The muscles in the front side do a lot of the holding up too. An awesome machine don't you think?
A big percentage of back pain sufferers have weak muscles in both the back and the front of their torso's.
If you're still on your back ... poke deep enough to find your abdominal muscles. If you put abdominis rectus in a google search you'll be able to find good drawings of the stuff we're poking here.
Don't try to tell me that you have no abdominal muscles. This part of your torso is full of wiggles and squiggles of bowel. If you can stand up and you have no loops of bowel hanging around on the outside ... it's muscles that are holding you all in. They are there. Honest.
As you are poking, you will find them. It's what you are poking through that has to go! It's fat and skin. The more fat I lose ... the more my birthday suit looks a size too big right there. Tummy tuck? I dunno.
But I do know what to do about the other. Those muscles that we'd like to be able to find more easily, that we'd like to hold us up and in more efficiently? They're in there. Fat goes! If you've lost one pound, you know that.
Fat loss is where it's at! Work your torso ... go ahead. It's good for burning calories. It's good for your back. It's good for your bowels. But as for finding your slender torso .... it's already in there.