I used to have an "innie" belly button before pregnancy. Now its an "outie" – what can I do?

I get this question here and there – a side effect from pregnancy, being an OUTIE belly button, when they were an INNIE.  And it IS a cosmetic in question, in part, but also a question of chaffing and inconvenience.  That belly button can rub against your clothing and get irritated.

Never Fear – The Tupler Technique is here.

But does it REALLY reverse my belly button woes?  YES…IF;

• Your technique is correct
• If you squeeze and hold the transverse muscle back adequately during the exercises.
• If you wear a Splint  – especially while you work out, and during the day.  Even at night for those of you jacknifer’s-out-of-bed-when-baby-cries gals.
• If a hernia is not the primary cause of the altered belly button

In the women I have measured and seen, usually its the women who have a larger diastasis – split in the recti muscles – that get an outie belly button.

One women I am training right now – is doing AWESOME with this.  In two weeks, not only did she bring her recti in TWO fingerwidths (learn how to measure here) from her original measurment of 6 fingerwidths right at the belly button, and she also brought her waist in from a 33 1/2  to a 31 1/4 – that is TWO and 1/4 inches.  I know I have had a couple people request pics – I will start compiling a collection for my clients who are willing 🙂  AND she REVERSED  her belly button from an outie to an innie!!  And that just TWO weeks people!!!

As you might have guessed she wore a Splint 
and she did 6 sets a day of  Seated Tuplers.

Thats it!  Oh, and she made sure she didn’t jackknife out of bed, of course – and none of the prohibited movements- CRUNCHES, Pilated 100, Teaser, Side to Side Obliques, etc.

So take hope, my newly adquired OUTIE friends, you CAN get your innie back!