How to Sit-up: Gym Shorts

New to sit-ups or looking for a quick technique tutorial? Learn how to sit-up in one short video.
What is the Sit-Up
The sit-up is a bodyweight exercises that trains the hip flexors and abdominal muscles by flexing at the hips. These muscles include the rectus abdominus (the "abs"), obliques, iliacus, psoas major & minor.
This is a classic bodyweight exercise that the military has often used on its physical fitness tests. It is one of many "core" or "ab" exercises that involves flexion at the hips.
Like the name suggests, you sit up.
Programming the Sit-Up
Military service members may have to perform these in preparation for their physical fitness assessments. Others may perform these or variations of them as part of CrossFit-style programs.
Typically, these are performed near the end of the workout, after the primary & supplemental movements have been executed.
Performing these in a circuit makes sense, saving time and breaking up upper & lower body exercises.
Gym Shorts videos provide short video demonstrations of correct form for various exercises.
Follow these steps:
feet together & flat on the ground
knees at roughly 90 degree angle
back flat on ground - butt & shoulder blades touching
hand behind head with fingers interlocked
torso at or beyond 90 degrees (shoulder above or in front of hip joint)
initiate movement with shoulders, then bring entire torso up together
maintain finger contact with head
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[@charleschen4766]

The dearth of sit-ups: After three decades of figuring how out the spine works, Stuart McGill has come to loathe sit-ups. It doesn’t matter whether they are the full sit-ups beloved by military trainers or the crunch versions so ubiquitous in gyms. “What happens when you perform a sit-up?” he asks. “The spine is flexed into the position at which it damages sooner.”

[@jeffreybabino8161]

Wow I didn't know if anyone did full sit ups anymore

[@BarbellLogic]

military

[@jeffreybabino8161]

O ok that explains it

[@thedarkness4820]

My tailbone (Coccyx) hurts when I do the sit ups... Any advice you can give me?

[@BarbellLogic]

2 things here:
-grass/soft ground is probably the best surface (like military)
-also kind of have to get used to it...like calluses on hands

[@K1NG931]

So sit-ups are still good? I hear so much talk against them.

[@BarbellLogic]

They're fine. Honestly, though, this is for our military audience (military still does them).

[@benjamenwitaker5437]

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