Can I still do sit-ups if my stomach hurts?

It is best not to do sit-ups when you have a stomachache, because sit-ups will affect the contraction of the abdomen and may aggravate the condition. It is best to rest more and wait until the stomachache symptoms disappear before doing physical exercise. Stomach pain is most likely caused by gastrointestinal discomfort due to eating the wrong food. You should pay attention to regulating your stomach and intestines, and sit-ups can regulate your stomach and intestines, so try not to do physical exercise when you have stomach pain.

It depends. If you strain your abdominal muscles while doing sit-ups, it is recommended that you stop exercising, rest for a while and continue after your abdominal muscles have recovered to avoid making the strain worse. After sit-ups, due to insufficient blood oxygen supply to the muscles, a large amount of lactic acid is produced and accumulates in the muscles, causing soreness. At this time, you can continue exercising to speed up the metabolism of lactic acid, but you should reduce the intensity of the exercise appropriately.

Sit-up Misconception 1:

Some people don't have time to go to the gym to exercise, so they choose to do some basic and effective simple exercises at home to exercise their bodies, hoping to achieve the effect of losing weight. Sit-ups are a method chosen by many people. Many people think that as long as they keep doing it, they can achieve the goal of losing weight.

Correction: Simply relying on sit-ups can only achieve local fitness effects, because sit-ups directly target the abdominal muscle groups. Long-term exercise may strengthen the abdominal muscles, but other parts of the body, such as the thighs and buttocks, will get less exercise.

Therefore, the first point to note is to effectively combine sit-ups with other fitness methods to achieve the perfect weight loss effect.

Sit-up Misconception 2:

Many people usually do sit-ups quickly and vigorously, thinking that this shows that their abdominal muscles are stronger. In fact, doing so can easily strain the abdominal muscles.

Correction: The correct way to do it is to cross your arms in front of your chest, and control the force of your abdomen when sitting up. Or make it more difficult and hold weights in both hands to increase the effect of the exercise.

Sit-up Misconception 3:

Many people's bodies will unnaturally deviate in a certain direction when doing sit-ups. This is wrong, as it will cause uneven training of the abdominal muscles and thus distort your body shape.

Correction: You should try to control the direction of getting up and lying down, do not deviate from the straight line, and slow down the speed to exercise the control ability of the abdominal muscles. It is best to feel the movement of the abdominal muscles when getting up.

Sit-up Misconception 4:

Some people think that the slower you do sit-ups, the more effective they are.

Correction: Slowing down the speed appropriately will help the exercise effect, but if the speed is too slow, the effect will be poor.

The most correct speed should be to go up faster and go down slower, which will achieve the best effect.

Sit-up Misconception 5:

Most people do sit-ups with their hands behind their heads and their fingers interlaced. (Hold the head)

Correction: This is the biggest misunderstanding about sit-ups. Even some physical education teachers teach students this way, which is completely misleading.

This gesture will put a burden on the cervical spine. The harder you hold your head, the greater the load.

The correct way is to place your hands on each ear and a little bit inward (approximately in the middle of the back of the head and a little bit outward), and just place your hands lightly there without using too much force.