15/09/2025
The distance between the recti of the abdomen (the “six pack”) is not necessarily something bad.
If your muscles are strong enough to provide stability to the front tissue, you won’t make the distance worse—as you may have read.
Honestly, measuring the distance above or below the belly button only gives a number, and that number doesn’t reflect how functional your abdomen is. What really matters is this: is your abdomen functional or not? And this is not necessarily linked to the number of centimeters of diastasis you have.
On top of that, we don’t really know why the diastasis sometimes reduces and sometimes doesn’t. From my experience, it depends much more on genetic factors.
Of course, to sell sessions it’s easier to say “you’re not doing the exercises properly” if the diastasis doesn’t reduce. And yes, it would also be nicer to take the credit if the distance decreases… but to be completely honest, some women do absolutely nothing and their diastasis gets smaller anyway!
My honest advice is this: make sure you know whether your abdomen is functional, and learn how to do your favorite exercises correctly.
(I’m preparing another post about how to know if an abdomen is functional or not…)
