Sit ups, what are you doing wr
Sit-ups, what are you doing wrWhen you do sit-ups, you are using your abdominal muscles. Lots of people do sit-ups, and think they are exercising or losing weight, especiallu when they feel sore in their stomache. They don't realize that they are doing sit-ups wrong, and could be hurting themselves, instead of helping.
If you do sit-ups with your legs extended, rather than with your knees bent, you will be strenthening your hip flexor muscles more than your stomache muscles (most bacl pain suffers need to stretch their hip flexors not streghten them.)
Lying on your back with your legs extended will also cause a natural curve in your lower back to become exaggerated and this...
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