If you’re hooking your feet under an object, hook at the ankles. IMPORTANT: have your friend hold you at the ankles and not at the toes. You’ll also have more room at the top since your knees are lower. This gives room for the abs to stretch out and really get more of an ab workout. And so in the final moments, some people will lift their toes to allow their legs to lengthen out. As you start to get tired after so many sit-ups, your legs may cramp, or you need more room at the top. Having the feet flat on the ground will usually make the sit-up more difficult because you have less space at the top which means you have to “crunch” harder to get up all the way. Most people switch around between the 2 positions not to target different muscles but to make sit-ups easier for them. Having your feet flat on the ground will use more of your hip flexor muscles, whereas having your toes up will use more of your core and ab muscles. The second position: your heels are on the ground with the toes up allowing the knees to straighten past 90 degrees. The first position: your feet are flat on the ground and the knees bent around 90 degrees or less. There are generally two positions (everything else is a variation). Your leg position during sit-ups affects the muscles used during the exercise. I personally recommend you keep your legs together so that your sit-ups are more even with less likelihood of preference to muscles on one side. Some people like having the feet shoulder-width apart because the space between their legs makes it easier for them to come up. You can set your feet together or shoulder-width apart. It’s really common to curl more towards one side and end up doing really crooked sit-ups when you get tired. Last tip: make sure you’re body is aligned straight. The guy holding feet also gets a free chest workout when the other guy is doing really fast sit-ups. Personally, I like having a friend because you two can motivate each other. Get a friend to hold your feet or stick your feet under the couch or anything else you can find. It helps if your padded surface is also non-slippery so you don’t slide all over the place as you do sit-ups. If the surface is particularly hard, put a little cushion, or yoga mat, or anything to keep your back bones from smashing onto the floor. You can be on any surface as long as it’s flat. *** Watch my video to see how I do sit-ups. Your core muscles can rotate your body for rotational power and has more to do with your punching power than any other muscle.Īnd since you’re going to be doing thousands if not millions of sit-ups throughout your fighting career, you might as well learn how to do a sit-up correctly. Your core is responsible for holding your body steady and combining the strength of other muscles in your body. Your core can allow you to move (twist/footwork), or prevent you from moving (balance). No matter what you do, whether it’s throwing a punch or taking a punch, standing still or moving around, you will need tremendous amounts of core strength to do it. Core strength is easily the most important factor in power generation and functional movement.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |