Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, 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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Adding weight onto situps?

rko
rko
Posts: 102
Joined: 2005/10/30
Australia
2005/11/29, 06:05 AM
Where would i add weight for situps? never seen of that before.:)
yadmit
yadmit
Posts: 4,670
Joined: 2003/10/05
Canada
2005/11/29, 08:41 AM
You can add the weight across your chest. Another way to increase the resistance to extend your arms. Hard - sides of head... harder - hands placed at top of head... hardest - extend arms fully past head...

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boommerswife
boommerswife
Posts: 6
Joined: 2005/11/20
United States
2005/11/30, 06:54 PM
When I do situps I lay a 10 lb weight on my chest. Makes a big difference!!
sstump1
sstump1
Posts: 1,227
Joined: 2005/03/20
United States
2005/12/01, 01:47 PM
Try Swiss ball crunches with 15lbs behind your head. You have to go back slow or else the extra weight takes off on you and you go sliding off the back of the ball onto the floow...almost done that a few times. The slowing down is good for lengthening the resistance time as well though, just like the negative on any weight training exercise.
sstump1
sstump1
Posts: 1,227
Joined: 2005/03/20
United States
2005/12/01, 01:48 PM
floow?? Didn't even know my gym had floow's!

You know what I meant.