#1 Worst Ab Exercise
Never Do This – Do This Instead… Why Crunches & Sit-Ups are Horrible for Your Back By Injury Specialist & Kinesiologist Rick Kaselj, MSThe sit-up or more specifically, the ‘crunch’ has been an exercise staple for decades. Proponents of the crunch touted it as the ideal exercise for building six-pack abdominals and ridding the stomach of excess fat. Since as far back as the 1940s fitness ‘gurus’ in gyms, on television and in magazines suggested that the crunch offered a fast track to a lean, well-defined mid-section. And for nearly as long, the real fitness experts have been saying “No, no no….the crunch does none of those things and is in fact, a horrible exercise that increases the risk of...