Tightening up your WAIST?

Hey there!!

Are there ANY possible exercises that a female can do to tighten up the waist?? Obviously crunches/abdominal exercises can tone and tighten the stomache, side obliques, etc... but how about the area just above there (the narrowest part above the belly button).
I'm a 26" waist now, on a 5'11" frame (so by no means am I complaining or talking a drastic change)... but a little more cut would be nice!!
I am an hourglass kind of body figure, but since I'm workout out I'm losing inches around the love handles/lower abdominal area... so in order to keep that hourglass shape, I wanted to cut my waist trimmer...
Any suggestions??

P.S. I don't want my waist to LOOK slimmer... I actually want/need to waist to be slimmer in measurement... I.E. a 25-25.5" waist.

Thanks so much!!
Stacey

How do you post images???? I'll show what I'm hoping to achieve.....

K so here is what I am now... 26" waist at the red arrows

As I do cardio and toning, the area where the blue arrow is pointing is slimming down... therefore I'm losing that hourglass curved shape...

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I would like to carve my waist in tighter... so I can acheive a waistline like this with the red arrows...

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Just what you said.. tightening.. toning.. building the abs. And to slim, losing the body fat around the area.

If you have a waist that measures 25 and you want it smaller, there is a point where that's just not going to happen. You can lose body fat around the area and ultimately lose muscle but that's probably not the goal.

Doing a nice range of ab exercises

Leg raises
Incline crunches
Etc

Will help to define the entire area. Then as your diet takes over, you become more defined and as slim as possible. In your case, you don't want build muscle in that area, you just want to get it into shape and cut.

Posting pics is as simple as

Using the reply feature to upload a picture (gif/jpeg) or going into the DB Member Photo Gallery and making yourself an album and posting pictures and making references to it.

The DB gallery has a 150 kb limit on a picture size. It's roughly 10 kb in this thread. So you will need to do some modifications somehow (Photoshop, Microsoft Picture Manager) to make it meet the size requirements.

Your best bet is to create a photo gallery (members only) and upload them there.

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k Thanks!!! ... I just wasn't sure if there were any "specific" exercises one could do for the waistline... I guess I just need to keep patient and doing cardio and abdominal exercises in order for the whole stomache/waist to trim down...... I just found that doing lots of crunches made my abs stronger and more defined but wasn't really tightening my waist enough to show a difference... Maybe I just need to lose a bit of fat on the sides of the waist..

There is hardly anything there to lose!!! You have a nice mid-section. I know alot of women who would kill for what youhave right now.

Diet will be a big part of trimming any further. I wish I could follow my own sugesstions.

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there is an exercise called vaccum or smt, where u exhale ,squeeze your stomach and keep for 20 sec and repeat.it is supposed to help to keep your waist small and trim.I would not work the obliques if i were u, especially with added weight or resistance.it would make your waist look bigger.Just do some side bends. they get exercised when u do squats etc anyway.the cardio of course is mandatory

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k Thanks!!! ... I just wasn't sure if there were any "specific" exercises one could do for the waistline... I guess I just need to keep patient and doing cardio and abdominal exercises in order for the whole stomache/waist to trim down...... I just found that doing lots of crunches made my abs stronger and more defined but wasn't really tightening my waist enough to show a difference... Maybe I just need to lose a bit of fat on the sides of the waist..

xxx alien