I had the same problem, it can often happen to short or tall people (damn those middlers!).
First thing to note is that during a standard situp only your stomach should feel any ‘pain’
So, keep your other body parts still, stick your feet under a barbell (this will in fact cheat a small amount since you will use a pivot - working our your thighs but thats not a major issue). Stop your back and arms/shoulders from moving by crossing your arms instead of the whole hands behind the ears crud.
A fine way to solve this is also to punch twice when you reach the top of the situp, (across the body of course, at eye height). Alot of people don’t like situps, we call these lazies, there are other more effective exercises to lose weight, but situps, inverted situps, angled situps are recognised as the best way to gain abdominal strength, that and weights (curls etc)
Do not go all the way down - this is a horrid stress on your back.
Stretch - lie on your front, like a starfish, and pull your limbsand head up the ceiling, for 3 seconds and down again, up and down, up and down.
Do you do situps on your side? - You should.
Do you twist left right at the top of the situp? - You can, this helps to warm up.
Hopefully that helps, doing all these things are once will sort of negate the #experiment#, try one at a time and see what works and is comfortable for you.
Good job for working out and seeking help too btw, most ppl just carry on and hurt themselves =)
I had the same problem, it can often happen to short or tall people (damn those middlers!).
First thing to note is that during a standard situp only your stomach should feel any ‘pain’
So, keep your other body parts still, stick your feet under a barbell (this will in fact cheat a small amount since you will use a pivot - working our your thighs but thats not a major issue). Stop your back and arms/shoulders from moving by crossing your arms instead of the whole hands behind the ears crud.
A fine way to solve this is also to punch twice when you reach the top of the situp, (across the body of course, at eye height). Alot of people don’t like situps, we call these lazies, there are other more effective exercises to lose weight, but situps, inverted situps, angled situps are recognised as the best way to gain abdominal strength, that and weights (curls etc)
Do not go all the way down - this is a horrid stress on your back.
Stretch - lie on your front, like a starfish, and pull your limbsand head up the ceiling, for 3 seconds and down again, up and down, up and down.
Do you do situps on your side? - You should.
Do you twist left right at the top of the situp? - You can, this helps to warm up.
Hopefully that helps, doing all these things are once will sort of negate the #experiment#, try one at a time and see what works and is comfortable for you.
Good job for working out and seeking help too btw, most ppl just carry on and hurt themselves =)