Tricks with your tongue are useful even if you aren’t an opera singer or an employee at the Bunny Ranch. In fact, and it might sound weird, but what you do with your tongue when you work out can have a big impact on your lifts. It can even help you build stronger abs.
“Your tongue is a hugely important muscle that is intricately connected to the deep stabilizing muscles of your core,” says Kyle Langworthy, C.S.C.S., a trainer at Mark Fisher Fitness, in New York City. “So when you activate your tongue muscles, it causes your deep core muscles to also turn on.”
Switching on those muscles helps you to naturally line up your head, rib cage, and pelvis, giving you a more solid, stable base to lift from. "Lifting with more stability can decrease your risk of injury,” says Langworthy. And cueing your body to use your core musculature to a greater degree can build some serious abs.
Here’s how to do it: Close your lips and press your tongue flat to the roof of your mouth, behind your front teeth. Now, keeping your tongue in place, suck down and in with it, as if you were trying to pull the roof of your mouth down and front teeth in. Breathe deeply through your nose, feeling your entire torso expand outwards. Slowly breathe all the way out. Lift while maintaining that tongue position and breathing pattern.
Use this trick in exercises like deadlifts, squats, and pullups.
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