Will YOUR abs save your life?

This is just one worse-case scenario where abdominal work can save your life!

Peggy Williams, 47, fell on to a rocky outcrop after a freak gust of wind caught the fabric wing of her paraglider.

She was catapulted through the air like a "rag doll" before plummeting 20ft and landing on her stomach.  She suffered a torn liver and nearly severed her pancreas following the accident in Andalusia, Spain.  But experts said her life was saved by her high level of fitness, which meant her stomach muscles acted as a "girdle" to protect her other vital organs.

"I was on the second day of an organised paragliding holiday and was out with two friends and eight or 10 other people on a hill at Teba in Andalusia.  The take-off spot was gravelled, but it was surrounded by a very rocky area. I was just standing, watching for the right conditions to take off, when a big thermal came and lifted me up four or five metres, pulled me backwards, dropped me down and, because my wing was still inflated, dragged me back over the rocks face-down.  I kept seeing rocks going past me and smacking me. Because the wing was partially inflated, it was my body rather than my head that was in contact with the rocks.  I was dragged for what seemed like an eternity over the rocks, tearing my stomach in the process. I was only told later that it was my washboard stomach that saved my life."

Miss Williams, who has no children, said: "More than one doctor has said that being so fit is what saved my life.  I do 15 sit-ups and 30 bicycle sit-ups, or lateral crunches, every day - it's just a one-minute regime.  I also run two or three times a week, and together that keeps me fit.  The muscles acted like a girdle to protect me."

If that is what just ONE MINUTE of daily ab work can do, imagine if she were training at Fitness Together...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5303853/Woman-survived-paragling-accident-due-to-washboard-stomach.html