How not to work your abs

Trick question, are abdominal exercises is good for your back? Do not answer too fast because I’m going to ask a second questions, are abdominal exercises bad for your back? Guess what, the answer is both. If you are doing the wrong abdominal exercises you can actually hurting back and I have be hurting your back and I have the generating discs in my lower back right know because I did some incorrect exercises and I also did them to excess many years ago. Now I do my exercises properly but Aaron is going to come out here right know and he is going to help us to demonstrate some of the exercises that we do not want to do anymore. The first exercises is the one that I originally set my world record in which was doing 52, 000 consecutive sit up so Aaron lets go ahead and show them what a full sit up looks like, he’s coming all the way up and going all the way back down . Now as he comes up notice I’m holding his feet and I want to let, come on up, when I let go his feet boom! His pops back down because his hip flexors were engaged. Now when your hips flexors are engaged they pull from front of your hip to the lumbar spine and there actually yanking your lower back this way which is not a good action for the lower back. The other thing is they go through full sit ups go through excessive flexion of the back let show that means. See how rounded is back is. I’m going to show what’s going on in the inside now by way of this spine right over here, my trusties spine as he scrolls all the way up see this excessive C shape curve, when you look up the front edge of each disc that is between each of this vertebrate, the disc is compress and the open back part of the disc is actually broader that is normally would…

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