Getting my sweater on. I think this really does hammer home for us. Why crutches don't work. Okay? You'll understand why I've got a sweater on it. Okay, so here we are, we're looking pretty fit, fit moms or we may have probably not even be a mom yet.

And I want you to show you this differ on my sweater represents a really important piece. I'm just gonna pull up my shirt a little bit. Don't worry, I know this is public and Periscope. Okay, so this zipper represents this piece of connective tissue. Okay, so there's a piece of connective tissue that runs from right under your breastbone, and ties right into the basis of your pubic bone. And you can actually kind of see like the shadow of that here on my stomach, and that's called your linea Alba.

So that's actually a piece of connective tissue that runs all the way down here. And it may even have gotten Dark when you hide your kids, so let's pretend that this zipper is that linea Alba. Okay, where did my baby go? Okay, so here is my lovely little baby. And as you get pregnant so all of us moms, as we get pregnant, it, there's some stretching that's happening here, right? And that little baby gets a lot bigger than that, right moms, especially the mom of my babies, like our babies are getting a lot and our tummies are stretching a lot more than them.

So let's show you what happens. Okay, so as your stomach gets bigger and bigger, this actually, midline tissue starts to split apart. And you can see that happening here. So it's going to split apart right from underneath our breastbone, all the way down her pubic bone because that piece of tissue is going to get more and more stretched as the two of the baby grows. Okay. Thankfully, this baby comes out.

Sometimes it comes out that way. Sometimes it comes out that way. But anyway, it ends up coming up. So then what you notice here is see how my zipper is apart. And this is this app gap that people are talking about, because see how my differ is apart, and our body doesn't magically put itself back together, it actually only will self heal a bit. And I can share some stats with you after I show you this visual on how much this actually heals itself.

But what happens is we're walking around after our babies forever after our babies with this looser bit of tissue. Okay, so now we're going to try and make our tummy flatter. And we're going to crunch Oh dear. So when we crunch so we're laying down, and we're crunching and then we're gonna do it again. against anything that four flexes like a crunch, obviously does pull this piece of tissue apart. And then here's here's us moms, right?

Here's those moms with their Pucci tummies at the bottom right? Because this piece of connective tissue has pulled itself apart and we're crunching and we're just making it worse. Okay, so there's a little bit of visual on some background science on why you need to understand why crunches don't work is because that piece of tissue has really pull itself apart and when you crunch or for blacks, it just, it just pulls apart and it makes it worse.