Are Sit-Ups Good For Us?

Here is an excerpt from my Course to explain: “Educate your patient re: exercises to avoid:  sit-ups and crunches of any kind, leg lifts – low back pain is an accumulation of bending, sitting, and twisting.  What are sit-ups?  While working out to try to improve our health, should we do things that can accumulate to cause low back pain?  It is probably okay under age twenty, when we are made out of rubber, but after age twenty, if you want to age gracefully and painlessly, I don’t recommend them.”
What to do instead:I teach people an exercise to contract their deepest abdominal muscle, Transversus Abdominis, while lying on their back. It is very gentle and effective at getting rid of low back pain and preventing the pain from coming back. And it doesn’t have to be done for maintenance - instead, there is a daily strategy that I teach on their first day which is easy to continue with. Many people have returned to me after only a few days to report that their chronic pain is already gone!  (And it is the muscle that creates the 'hour glass figure'.)
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