Benefits Of Sit-ups And Steps to Do Them.

Sit-ups are a kind of exercise in which a person lies flat on the back, lifts the torso to a sitting position, and then lies flat again without changing the position of the legs. There are numerous benefits if you are doing this exercise properly. to get the best result from any exercise we have to do that with complete faith. Sit-ups are a core exercise that focuses more on the abdominal muscles. Therefore, we are going to discuss the benefits, proper posture, and different other things about sit-ups.

Benefits

Just because of its simplicity and effectiveness both males and females do this regularly. Below are some reasons you may need to add Sit-ups in your daily routine.

1.Core Strength

People with back pain, injuries mostly prefer situps, to move or say walk around easily. It helps you to build your core strength by providing you strength.

2.Better muscle strength

It has been found that, older women who can perform 10 or more than that situps daily having better abdominal muscles. Situps help to build muscle strength in the abdominal and hip muscles. It is also a cure to disease Sarcopenia, in which there is a natural loss of muscles has been reported.

3.Better posture and stability

Many people reported of imbalance of weights in their body due to this sometimes people even fall by own. Have you ever thought of this? Situps help your pelvis, lower back, and hips muscles work together to provide stability to your body.

 

4. Diaphragm strengthening

Sit-ups help your body to improve your respiratory organs diaphragm. The compression on the abdomen due to situps help to build a positive effect on the diaphragm.

5 easy steps to perform Situps:

1. Lock your feet into a place.

Try to lock your legs with the help of dumbbells or walls. So, you will not be able to bring up your legs while trying to pull yourself up. Because doing it without any pressure into your abdomen area is not going to benefit you.

2. Lock your upper body into a place.

 

Your both hands should be on the back portion of your head as shown in the picture. This provides you to lock your upper body.

3. Exhale as you do the exercise.

Exhale whenever you are trying to pull your body up. This helps in contracting your abdomen and to improve the health of your diaphragm.

4. Stop resting at the top.

While doing sit-ups it should be in mind that you must not stop or rest yourself at the top.

5. Stop resting at the bottom.

Also, try not to stop at the bottom. Sit-ups should be continuously executed.

 

Try to perform Sit-ups as described above. Kindly comment down below if you are stuck with any of your doubts.

-Authored by Sahil Gupta (MBA in Marketing & Finance, Sri Balaji University, Pune).