Maria Menounos Claims She Would Rather Be Punched Than Do Ab Work

By:Radar Staff

Sept. 29 2011, Published 9:04 a.m. ET

By Leah Ornstein

RadarOnline.com Style & Beauty Editor

Maria Menounos may have some of the flattest abs on the beach, but that doesn’t mean that she spends her afternoon doing crunches at the gym. The television personality recently told Shape Magazine, that she owes her marvelous midsection to her father’s flat-abs secret – which is far from ordinary!

“I’d rather have people punch me than do sit ups,” she tells the fitness magazine about her unconventional tightening exercise. “Sitting there, just squeezing your abs and bracing yourself for the punch - that is an ab workout.”