ive been doing the crunches where you keep your legs up in the air and bring your head towards your knees, but lately i started the crunches where your feet are on the ground in sit up position, and you go halfway to your knees. i have found the second one to make me feel the burn more for some reason. maybe im not used to it? any suggestions? and whcih one do you personally prefer? thanks

ive been doing the crunches where you keep your legs up in the air and bring your head towards your knees, but lately i started the crunches where your feet are on the ground in sit up position, and you go halfway to your knees. i have found the second one to make me feel the burn more for some reason. maybe im not used to it? any suggestions? and whcih one do you personally prefer? thanks

I would venture to say that you are doing the first incorrectly, most likely. If your shoulders and mid back arent coming up off the floor, then all your doing is rounding your shoulders.

I do all sorts of different crunchs from different angles to high upper and lower abs, as well as internal and external obliques (Add rotation and side crunches for these last two.)

Aodhan

should i do the second one then, since i feel the burn more with them?

or should i set a ab workout, like 3 sets of the crunches with feet on the ground, 3 sets of the feet in the air?

technically speaking, the abs aren't divided into upper and lower - they are one sheet of muscle. When you work part of it, you work all of it. When people feel burning in the "lower abs", what they are usually feeling is the ab/adductors working.

hmm... thats weird, normally the one with the legs up in the air are harder, but then, if you do one exercise for a long time it gets easier for your body to do, so it probably is just because your doing something different, or it could be that your doing them wrong, i dunno, lol.

You should try to mix it up, do the ones with the legs up, legs on the ground, and the legs rolled to either side, i try to do that. Listen to Aodhan, he seems like a smart bloke, .

ive been doing the crunches where you keep your legs up in the air and bring your head towards your knees, but lately i started the crunches where your feet are on the ground in sit up position, and you go halfway to your knees. i have found the second one to make me feel the burn more for some reason. maybe im not used to it? any suggestions? and whcih one do you personally prefer? thanks

I would venture to say that you are doing the first incorrectly, most likely. If your shoulders and mid back arent coming up off the floor, then all your doing is rounding your shoulders.

I do all sorts of different crunchs from different angles to high upper and lower abs, as well as internal and external obliques (Add rotation and side crunches for these last two.)

Aodhan

Yah what Aodhan said, you have to be doing something wrong... By raising your feet and holding them in the air, you work your lower abs, by bringing your head up you work the mid and higher abs, I also do side to side ones. I bring it up to the left and move over to the right and back down flat then again. It's like doing a type of a pushup on your knees, there's a hard way and an easy way, obviously do it the hardest way you can.

im doing the crunches with the feet on the ground now since i feel the burn more. but today, i woke up and my upper back is killing me, like right below the neck, i have been doing these things everyday now. any advice about it?

I like to do a mix of them but i hate it when my neck stiffins up

yeah, i waspertty sure it was because of that, it kind of scared me for a second. oh, congratulations by the way Menjo, you seem to have moved up in rank.

technically speaking, the abs aren't divided into upper and lower - they are one sheet of muscle. When you work part of it, you work all of it. When people feel burning in the "lower abs", what they are usually feeling is the ab/adductors working.

True, but different exercises emphasize different sections more than others. (Much like incline, flat and decline bench presses).

Rather than detail that fact each time, I just use the generic terms of upper and lower abs.

Aodhan