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Anonymous
How do you do the most effective and safe sit up? I have no equipment to assist me, other than a couch to keep my feet planted, if needs be.

Thanks for your help.

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>> Anonymous
>>51519
if you flexed a lot- thats basically the effect of a situp. You could just stand around or sit around all day and tense and untense your abs, all you're doing is burning some fat (not from your abs, just from your body in general).

Think of it as lifting a tiny dumbbell 1000 times or lifting a dumbbell 1000x its size once. The work you do is the same, except one conditions your muscles for stamina/ burning fat, and one builds strength and power. The more strength you want, the more resistance you have to add to an exercise, the more power you want the more explosive you have to move under that resistance.

Start of by tensing and untensing sure, then try doing that while rotating your torso, then doing that while rotating your torso and holding something, then something heavier etc- you get the idea. Walk around with something heavy held above your head, up stairs etc. You will feel it in your abs.
>> Hammerknife !7ITukp3Pj2
>>51519

Don't listen to that other guy. Sit-ups work fine for making your core stronger, assuming you're out of shape. Once you can do like a hundred in a row they stop being effective.

Anyway, you should alternate between sit-ups and crunches until you're strong enough to move to squats. Lay on the ground with your ass at the couch, legs either in the air or angled to the couch, lift shoulders to crunch. For sit-ups, do em the way you did them in PE, put arms on the ground palms flat.
>> Hammerknife !7ITukp3Pj2
>>51531

Also you can do reverse crunches and obliques. For a reverse crunch, lay on the sofa face down, then shift over so your upper body is over air. Flex lower back (don't use knees to counter) and move body up.
>> Anonymous
inchworms are pretty good too its like doing bicicle situps or the situps where your twisting your torso except your carrying your weight with you

simply by keeping your legs straight bend down and use your hand to support you from falling, with your hand inch them forward until your legs reach about 40-45 degrees then hop back up and continue. im no good at describing stuff i first did this at my wrestling club and it does get rather intense
>> Anonymous
IMO you'll get a better and more notable result if you use bridging and crunch exercises instead. Just be slow and let gravity make each rep count more, rather than being like stereotypical people who try and go fast and then brag about how many they can do.