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Situps fast or slow?


Ben Martin

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which is the best way to do them?

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Hi Ben,

In my personal opinion I think both ways are fine. You'd see the people in the gym do then slow. They would do 3 or 4 sets of 20 or so. In MA we train the body to be robust opposed to having a nice body. Therefore in the dojo we do them relatively fast. Which is great for stamina and ab development.

So I say, which ever one you are comfortable with, but try and go faster.

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do them both. you'll feel the difference.

forget doing sets of whatever number because it becomes a pattern your used to achieving and you wont want to do more. just make your sets as many as you can do till that specific ab region you are working out fails. your core region will strengthen more quickly.

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i would think that slow would cause more resistance... yes?

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yesterday in the gym we were all made to do 180 and i was the last person by far to finish them. not because i kept stopping which i didn't do once but because i tend to to them slow. but wouldnt the people who were doing it fast and kept stopping get more of a work out as they reached MMF and i didn't?

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Personally, I do all of mine slow. I know that my back doesn't feel too good if I try to do these fast. Also, I feel a better "burn" in my abs if I do them slow.

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I like doing situps at a moderate speed, not too slowly, not too quickly. If I do them too quickly, my tailbone starts hurting because it's making friction with the ground, but if I do them too slowly, it'll take too much time for me to feel tired :) .

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I prefer to do situps slow than fast. I feel I've had a better work-out when I do them slowly.

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You know, at my dojo, we tend to do them fast, but there's another way to do them that I think must be just as good. You basically just do a sit-up and hold it for 10 seconds, then release. Start with 5 repititions and build up. It burns, but it's good!

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