Effective Way to do Sit Ups!
❌Hands behind the head/neck - What this does is tempts you to use your hands to push your head forwards to get yourself up. This then places a lot of strain on the neck and can cause future problems for you if done regularly.
❌Sitting all the way up - If you look at the video, or at anyone doing a sit up, you will notice the abs are actually contracting and being crunched during the first initial lift up only. Look closely and you will notice that the rest of the sit up is actually being done by your hip flexors in the front of the hips (the muscle which helps you lift your leg up towards your body). This is great for strengthening the hip flexors, but that’s not what our intention is when doing sit up!
✅Place hands lightly on side of head - The hands should never be used to push you forwards from the head. You can even avoid using your hands completely by just raising your arms up in the air as you do the sit ups to prevent the temptation of pushing yourself up as the exercise starts to get more difficult and you get more tired. Keep your head and eyes looking upwards to avoid that forward neck bend. If you can’t get yourself up at all without using support from your hands, then that’s fine, remember everything starts with baby steps. Do whatever you can but stay consistent with it. Eventually you will find yourself progressing slowly and getting better and better as the abdominal muscles get stronger.
✅Bend only at the stomach area - In order to keep tension high, we want to actually train the abs without allowing it to rest and ease that tension during the exercise. When you sit all the way up, it is actually your hip flexors which or working to get you there, not your abs. You will even feel it get easier from that second phase of the sit up because your abs are resting during it. Keep tension high by only crunching the abs and making the exercise more effective. Think of it like your goal is to lift your upper back and shoulders off the ground, not your whole upper body and lower back too!
Now you know how to effectively train your abs! So what are you waiting for?? Go try it out right now and feel the difference! 💪🏽😃
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