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Extra flub
I'm impressed with your experience in fitness, so I'm going to ask you a question!
I'm 4'10'' and 90 lbs. I'm not getting much taller so im not expecting my weight to fluxuate. I know my BM is fine and nothing to worry about since im 13, but my stomache has some flub on it. I eat a very healthy diet and do situps regulary, but i find that it never goes away. What things should i be doing. I run and dance a lot. Also i have a crease under my sorta "pot belly" and my doctor says its from doing situps. I really don't belive that...is it true?
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Your problem is that you are doing sit-ups and not crunches for the exercise aspect. Sit-ups are not what you would call an "Ab-Specific" exercise but rather they target primarily the Hip Flexor or "Illiopsos" muscles which run from behind your hips just above the glutes to right in between your lower ab and pelvis region.
Try this experiment-
- Stand up and use one hand to hold onto something
- Lift one leg in the air and hold your free hand on the lower part of your stomach and lower your leg down.
Notice anything? That you didn't feel a real contraction in your lower stomach but you kind of felt a little pull underneath the lower stomach. This is essentially what is happening when you do a Sit-up. Final verdict- for targeting the abs, crunches are king. Your doctor was wrong.
Your doctor and many doctors (unless they are sports medicine) usually aren't exactly "Fitness Buffs" and they're pretty quick to discourage exercise simply because they really don't know much about it. Case in point- the FDA recommendations of nutritional minimums are about 70 years obsolete and that's sad.
Listen to your body and above all with the effort and strain and all these things- enjoy it and learn to embrace and learn from all of the great disciplines and characteristics a life of fitness can offer you.
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