Local author gives the skinny on waist training

Summer is here and as people are unpacking those swimming suits and bikinis, West Philadelphia’s own Vanna B is releasing her book “Waist Training 101” to help those seeking to improve heir figures.
Corset’s, once popular during Victorian Times, are back in vogue and “Waist Training 101” is written for those who use them in their effort to slim those waist lines.
“‘Waist training 101’ is an instructional manual on waist training and it just tells women how to go about it,” said Vanna B.
“A lot of people think it is as simple as going out, getting a corset, putting it on and tying it as tight as you could possibly get it, and they think they are just going to see results in a matter of days — just like that,” she said. “But that’s not how it really works.”
The first step to properly wearing a corset for waist training is what Vanna B has called, “seasoning it [the corset].”
“Over a two-week period you start wearing the corset very loosely on you for about 2 hours a day,” she said. “Then, little by little, you begin to slowly tighten it.”
In fact Vanna B said there is no point during waist training with a corset that you should wear it so tight that breathing becomes difficult.
“All of the negative flack that people get in the media is because people are going about it wrong. Of course if you go about it like that you are going to run the risk of injuring yourself.”
“If it’s ever to the point where it’s hurting, you can’t breathe, definitely you’re going numb — then it’s definitely too tight and you need to either take it off or loosen it a little,” said Vanna B.
Corsets should be worn regularly, said Vanna B and therefore, tightening one to the point where it becomes uncomfortable prohibits frequent use and therefore defeats the purpose.
Despite the warnings and some information circulating in the media, Vanna B said there is no record of anyone ever being seriously injured by wearing a corset even among those who make a practice of wearing them very tightly for long periods of time.
“They are called ‘tight lacers’ and they’ll have it tight like that and will still wear it 24 – 7, taking it off just to shower; they sleep in it and everything,” she said. “There are people who have been doing it for years and years and years, and they’re perfectly fine and healthy.”
This is because the body’s organs are malleable. However, she still recommends easing in to use over a 9 month period.
“When I started wearing it I immediately noticed how my posture changed and [how it relieved] back pain that I had,” said Vanna B, who began wearing Corset’s after developing a condition known as Diastases Recti, also referred to as abdominal separation, which she experienced after a pregnancy.
It was then that she began researching the topic of waist training.
In her book Waist training 101, Vanna B discusses not only the use of waist training but also other methods of waist training.
“Don’t just rely one hundred percent on Corset training ... I have different illustrations of abdominal exercises that you could do and just some basic chapters about dieting, cutting calories and measuring your body mass index,” said Vanna B.

Rihanna transforms in revealing corset as she rides in vintage car for 1950s shoot in Cuba

Rihanna turned back time in her latest photoshoot as she transformed for a Cuban 1950s-themed modelling campaign.
The singer swapped her out-there jackets and see-through tops from the 21st Century for a statement red corset-style outfit as she channelled her inner 50s babe in front of the cameras.
From posing against vintage cars, to sat at old bars in sky0high stilettos, the beauty got it spot on as she showed off her fierce side.
The red corset was teamed with matching tight trousers and heels, and RiRi's red hair co-ordinated perfectly.

  Rihanna turned back time in her latest photoshoot as she transformed for a Cuban 1950s-themed modelling campaign.
The singer swapped her out-there jackets and see-through tops from the 21st Century for a statement red corset-style outfit as she channelled her inner 50s babe in front of the cameras.
From posing against vintage cars, to sat at old bars in sky0high stilettos, the beauty got it spot on as she showed off her fierce side.
The red corset was teamed with matching tight trousers and heels, and RiRi's red hair co-ordinated perfectly.
She then swapped into a simple black strapless dress and showed off her huge curls as she posed seductively on the street side.
This time Ri swapped her heels for some chunky flat sandals which simply wouldn't work on anyone but her.

Fans quickly cottoned on to her being there, after the star toured from New York, to London, to Miami and then to Cuba in just three days.
Swarms of people gathered outside to catch a glimpse of the flame-haired singer as she took a ride in the old car.

 RiRi was a total knockout in black

It was a shock to see her in so little after she left London in a huge baggy coat and jeans just days before.
With her long red tresses styled in waves the pop princess was keeping her cool as she made her way to board the plane.
Ri Ri's shoes matched her newly-red locks and the singer went for comfort in the pointed flats.
Without any hand luggage in sight it looked as though Rihanna was travelling lightly.
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‘Teen Mom OG’ Star Catelynn Lowell Hopeful Waist Training Will Aid In Pre-Wedding Weight Loss

After giving birth to her daughter Novalee Reign more than 4 months ago, Catelynn Lowell is ready to get serious about shedding the baby weight. The “Teen Mom OG” star struggled with her nearly 60 pound weight gain on the MTV reality series.
With her August wedding date creeping closer and closer, Catelynn is trying new methods to whip her body back into pre-baby shape. The reality star shared an Instagram photo Monday of her wearing a black waist trainer. The 23-year-old said she was “thinking about” trying the popular weight loss method.
Catelynn struggled with her weight throughout much of this season of “Teen Mom OG.” In a recent episode, which aired May 18, she revealed that she had lost 20 pounds. Unfortunately for her she still needed to drop four dress sizes before she was truly wedding-ready. Her fiancé Tyler Baltierra tried several times to interject, suggesting that she diet or hit the gym, but Catelynn found his advice more hurtful than helpful. Lowell told her future hubby his constant criticism made her “not want to” diet or exercise even more.
He and Catelynn butted heads on the matter several times throughout the season, but worked through it. Tyler has since taken to Twitter to clear up any and all misconceptions about his suggestions. He claimed his “intention is never to hurt” his fiancée.

Waist-training devices

FOX 5 News (WNYW) -- The next evolution of corseting is trending all over social media. Waist training promises to shrink unwanted belly fat permanently.
These waist-training devices claim to give you a slimmer midsection for around $100. Celebrity endorsements are giving the corseting craze a major boost. But critics in medicine and fitness say this trend is probably too good to be true.
Miami native Nakeitha Felder is better known as Premadonna, the creator of beelike.com and the Kardashian sisters' favorite waist shapers. She says she eats what she wants and doesn't exercise but the waist trainer keeps her stomach toned and flat.
Many doctors are skeptical of corseting's mystifying results. Lenox hill internist Dr. Len Horowitz says that a corset only appears to make your waist smaller. He also warns that extended use can be unhealthy because compression can interfere with digestion.
But Premadonna rejects any such criticism from the medical community.
Dr. Horowitz says to lose weight you have to eat a healthy diet and work out and strengthen your core.
For that we turn to Culture Gym founder Larry Twohig, who showed us several core exercises.

Fetish model wears steel corsets to get world's smallest waist: 'I can feel my ribs bend'

AN EXTREME corseter, who has a minuscule 18inch waist, squeezes herself into the rib-crushing contraptions for six hours a day.

Romanie Smith's ambition for the ultimate hourglass figure has become an obsession,
And in a bid to achieve the world’s thinest torso, the 20-year-old fetish model undergoes hours of waist training.
The blonde bombshell, needs to lose another three inches to achieve the work record of a 15in waist.
And the feisty model, who has shrunk her natural waist from 25 to 22 inches in the past eighteen months, is determined to achieve her goal.
Romanie wears a corset for up to six hours four times a week, but hopes to increase this – despite sometimes experiencing pain when the garment crushes into her ribs.

Rather than following the likes of the Kardashians, who are well-known fans of waist-training, Romanie is inspired by pins ups from the 40s and 50s and aims to recreate their "classy" hourglass stature.
She said: “I would love to shrink my waist to a 17 maybe a 16 maybe a 15 - I don’t really know just go with it and see what happens.
“I have quite a big rib cage so it sticks out further and I can feel my ribs bending a little bit - but other than that the corsets are really comfortable.
“Back in the day everyone wore them, everyone had a womanly figure all jeans were high waisted - so the women’s waists back then were smaller.”
The size 6 model, from Essex, uses the tight corsets to create a sexy hourglass figure.
And for Romanie, corseting is all about creating a vintage pin-up look.
She said: “Women in this era don’t have that shape any more.
“I love the look of Marilyn Monroe and I often get told I look like her.
“I know Kim Kardashian is waist training now and a lot of people are copying her but I’m not really into that look.”

Romanie currently owns seven corsets made of steel, leather and latex - which she uses to cinch in her waist to 18-inches.
But she admits the curvaceous shape comes with a price – as she can often feel uncomfortable in her tight corset.
“Sometimes, if you are out and about it is kind of like getting a stomach ache," she said.
“You don’t want to be there, you want to go home, but you power on through it in a way because you made a decision to wear the corset so you go through with it - it’s what you have got to do.”

Romanie is fully aware of how damaging the cinching technique can be and is determined to limit her corseting to what she feels is safe.
Romanie said: “Wearing a corset 24-hours a day all the time does tend to damage your ribs, it can bring them in, it can snap ribs, cause bruising and damage the bottom of your lungs.
“They are the problems that you can find if you are corseting to extremes and doing it too much - it is not advised that you do it like that."
Romanie’s friends and family are supportive of her decision to go into fetish modelling and mum, Susannah Smith, 45, often helps out with the blonde model’s hair on shoots.
Susannah, a web-designer, said: “I am very proud of her. It’s enabled her to come out of her shell and give her a lot of life experience.
“Most people on the whole are really positive about Romanie’s look and her work.
“There have been the occasional times where people have been negative, it’s been people saying ‘oh that’s not natural or she looks too thin’.
“It is mad, years ago they used to do it and it wasn’t natural then but it’s just a look and it’s a look that she carries well and one that she has to do for her career.”

Romanie has also experienced criticism online.
She said: “I guess because you don’t see many people wearing corsets anymore so people are kind of shocked when you are wearing one.
“I have had a few people criticise me on social media sites where people can hide behind a computer.
“I have had a few people say, ‘oh that’s disgusting, it’s unnatural’.Someone even said I must be starving myself.
“They say that I look anorexic or I look weird but I am a small person I am not big so it doesn’t make any difference.
"I just am small – and I eat like a horse.
“This is my body and I don’t care what anybody else has to say.”

 

 

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Si-a dorit sa aiba o talie de viespe si a purtat CORSET timp de 17 zile!

Si-a dorit sa aiba o talie de viespe si a purtat CORSET timp de 17 zile! Niciodata nu s-ar fi asteptat la asa ceva, dar s-a intamplat

Oricine isi doreste sa aiba o silueta de invidiat si o talie de viespe, motiv pentru care atunci cand nu sunt multumite de modul in care arata, numeroase tinere apeleaza la trucuri care mai de care mai inedite.

Inspirata de celebritati precum Kim Kardashian si de Dita Von Teese, adolescenta din imaginile de mai jos a acceptat provocarea lansata de Vanna B., autoarea cartii Waist Training 101: A Guide to Using Corsets to Slim Your Waistline, de a purta un corset timp de 17 zile pentru a ajunge la dimensiunile dorite.

Daca in prima zi a purtat piesa vestimentara doar doua ore si a simtit ca nu mai poate sa respire, in perioada urmatoare, timpul a crescut, iar efectele secundare au fost mai mici.
Totusi, la finalul celor 17 zile, aceasta a marturisit ca un corset nu este vreo pilula de slabit care topeste pur si simplu grasimea. Ea a recunoscut ca a pierdut 1,5 centimentri in talie, insa a pus acest rezultat si pe urmarea unui regim strict.

When Chennai went Shalala-lala

Comeback concerts can be quite tricky, especially if the group in question enjoyed massive success a decade or two ago. On Saturday night, Chennai played host to the Vengaboys; when people found out about the performance, the question most frequently asked was, “They’re alive?” After all, they are the group that has defined the sound of dance-pop, more than any other, since the glorious 1990s.

At the Phoenix MarketCity courtyard, the crowd in the front row was packed tight. So tight, that everyone struggled to Instagram with one hand, while swaying to the music with the other — but they managed, nevertheless. To the right of the stage, a small VIP arena was lifeless for a dance music concert; most people preferred to sit than stand. Which is why my friend and I decided to make our way to the crowd — who sits at a music concert, let alone a Vengaboys one? The aim was to dance all night, till 8.30 p.m., of course. As this was a 90s nostalgia concert, it was like a school reunion. We met friends and classmates and people we didn’t really talk to then and were forced to greet now.

Hours before the concert, the four sat down for a media interaction with a few journalists (some of whom were admittedly star-struck, a thought they unabashedly voiced, while some of us played it cool) and they were dressed to kill. Kim Sasabone, arguably the most recognised face of the group, was armed with pistols — one was a pendant and the other, a huge ring; both dazzlingly gold. Denise Post-Van Rijswijk was dolled up, and I say that because she looked like a Barbie doll come to life. The men, Donny Latupeirissa and Robin Pors, opted for black and blue. They talked about how life had changed for them: the fans who used to write long-winded, heartfelt letters, Kim said, had now been reduced to selfie-taking, tweeting ones. The group also promised to bring “sexiness to the stage” with their costumes and they were true to their word. There was some iconic clothing from the era on display: leotard, Madonna-like corset, snakeskin, and leather jackets.

Amidst the crowd, we settled for a place to the far left and the Vengaboys had already started belting out numbers (‘Ibiza’ is what they started with) and we soon realised that the Vengaboys fans in us were outnumbered. Apart from the usual families with children, ‘single’ middle-aged men and couples who danced uncomfortably close in public, the venue was filled with 20 and 30-somethings regularly yelling, “I love you Vengaboys”. After a while, we didn’t know what was more unsettling — these proclamations or the people falling all over each other. More surprisingly, during the set’s peak — ‘Boom Boom Boom Boom’, ‘The Vengabus is Coming’, ‘Up & Down’ — a guy was seen tapping his feet and politely nodding while the rest of us in the audience collectively lost our minds, reliving our 90s nostalgia.

Before we knew it, we were all dancing, paying no heed to personal space, in the little 6 square cm area that we could occupy. There was sweat all over, glistening on our bodies and faces, but no one was bothered. Boisterous boys took turns hoisting each other on their shoulders, and showing off their dappankuthu moves, while some women turned around to pose for a photo with the Vengaboys, who were thrusting their energy into the crowd, in the background.

Donny played the Pitbull of the group, encouraging the crowd to make some noise, while Robin yelled out the band name at regular intervals. They made sure the audience interacted with them, by making them chant Vengaboys in various permutations and combinations, “When I say Benga, you say boys. Benga - Boys, Benga - Boys!” The name, they explained, takes its root from the Spanish word ‘venga/benga’ — a word roadside romeos use to call out to beautiful women.

And although dance-pop is their mainstay, they tried their hand at a ballad, ‘Forever as One’, which received thunderous applause from the audience; an irony, considering it made the members rethink their decision when it was initially released.

But a fleetingly short hour later, the party came to a close. The crowd cheered happily, while catching their collective breath — we got our nostalgia fix. The toughest part remained — recreating the experience on paper. How does one look back longingly on the not-so-distant past only to be interrupted by the adult life’s job of writing about it?

Here’s hoping the Backstreet Boys plan a concert next.