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Please Stop Criminalizing the Sit-Up
Give this exercise one more chance and it can transform your health.
The sit-up is a good exercise. Let that be heard loud and clear. While it’s been slandered for being an inefficient, dangerous movement among many health providers and influencers, we’ve been missing the whole point. Sure, it has flaws, but it also provides incredible value to virtually everyone if we’d only look at it differently.
To help you get the most out of this underrated exercise, I want to break down three reasons why you should and shouldn’t perform it. Not only will this help you do it productively, but it’ll also shift your entire perspective of core training for the better. Are you ready to build a stronger core and foster pain-free, functional living for good?
The sit-up only became a problem when we put our expectations in the wrong places. It’s time to adjust our mindset and use it for what it does best.
In Defense of the Humble Sit-Up
To kick us off, here’s a gentle reminder that you’re in control of what exercises you decide to do. If your body doesn’t agree with the sit-up, that’s ok! There are plenty of other fish in the sea so…
