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Hey i was looking at your response to a question about doing sit-ups and in your response you wrote this: "using a small weight either on your chest or behind your head (taking care not to push the weight against the head as you excercise) and doing sets of 15-20 or so" What do you mean by that? Like you lie down and put a weight on your stomach and then do crunches? And what do you mean you put it behind your head?? Like on the floor?? Huh?? Plz explain!! :-)
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Actually now that I see the quote I realise I made a small error. For crunches it can only be behind the head, not on the chest. Basically you grasp the weight with both hands and hold it behind your head, just above your neck- so your head literally rests on it as you lie on your back. Then you hold it against your head as you do the crunches, so the weight is lifted every time you go up. The important thing is not to press your head upwards with the weight as you do the crunches (which many people do ) because it can cause neck injury. Just hold the weight with your fingers in a fixed position against your head as you excercise. Hope this is clear enough, if not get back to me and I will try to find a link with pictures. Oh, and btw the weight on the chest thing is something one uses on inclined sit ups at the gym (thats why I made the mistake- the original subject being sit ups).
Hey, Im going to answer your second question here- hope you see this. I had of bit of trouble figuring that IM thing out (remember I am an old guy lol). Anyway, the weight on your chest is used for inclined sit ups. You can only do those on a special bench (level of incline can vary). Here is a link with a decription and picture [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
It describes how to use the weights. To be honest, I am not sure if the same technique can be effectively applied to use weights with a regular sit up, since I havent seen it done. Hope this helps though.
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