How to Do the Stomach Vacuum
💪 Abdominals🏋️ Body Only📊 Beginner🏷️ Stretching
How to perform it
- To begin, stand straight with your feet shoulder width apart from each other. Place your hands on your hips. This is the starting position.
- Now slowly inhale as much air as possible and then start to exhale as much as possible while bringing your stomach in as much as possible and hold this position. Try to visualize your navel touching your backbone.
- One isometric contraction is around 20 seconds. During the 20 second hold, try to breathe normally. Then inhale and bring your stomach back to the starting position.
- Once you have practiced this exercise, try to perform this exercise for longer than 20 seconds. Tip: You can work your way up to 40-60 seconds.
- Repeat for the recommended amount of sets.
Muscles worked
The Stomach Vacuum primarily targets your Abdominals. You'll need body only.
Make it count toward your goal
Random sets rarely move the needle. In NYUS, the Stomach Vacuum slots into a plan built for your goal — sets, reps and progression auto-suggested, logged in two taps, and folded into a weekly review that adapts what comes next.