Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 383, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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Stress free ab exercises?

equestrian
equestrian
Posts: 2
Joined: 2004/11/17
United States
2004/11/18, 12:55 PM
Hi all,
I'm new here and need some advise about abdominal exercises. About 3 months ago I had some rather extensive surgery that included cutting my oblique muscles(as well as the lats and several others) on my left side completely in half!

Well, I have knitted up quite nicely and am back to the gym to try to loose the 25 extra pounds I put on while recovering. Now I am trying to find some exercises I can do to train my torso without putting too much stress on my left side. The basic crunch is about all I can handle, but I don't feel like I'm accomplishing much when I do them. Can anyone give me some new ideas to work my torso without putting too much stress on the newly knitted muscles?
bigandrew
bigandrew
Posts: 5,146
Joined: 2002/10/21
United States
2004/11/19, 12:34 PM
you can do them on a ball. You'll work more stablizing muscles on it, an dget a read good stretch. But try different things and see what hurts and doesn't

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