The main function of sit-ups is to strengthen abdominal muscles. If done correctly, sit-ups can not only improve the elasticity of abdominal muscles, but also protect the back and improve the posture. On the other hand, if not done well, sit-ups are not only a waste of time, but even harmful.
Let's look at the benefits of sit-ups!
1. Relieve symptoms of nocturnal emission
Statistics show that 80% to 90% of healthy unmarried men have nocturnal emission once or twice a month. However, if the frequency of nocturnal emission is too frequent, reaching more than 5 times a month, and it continues to occur, or it still occurs frequently after regular sexual life, treatment should be considered, otherwise it may bring problems such as nervous system and sexual dysfunction.
Sit-ups can be used to treat frequent nocturnal emission. This is because doing sit-ups and putting your arms straight behind your head can improve the function of internal organs and relieve the condition of nocturnal emission by exercising pelvic tissue.
2. Improve your physiological function
Sit-ups play an important role in developing balance and support ability. It can improve the central nervous system, including the firmness of pelvis, the flexibility of joints, the firmness of ligaments and the firmness and elasticity of muscles. At the same time, it can accelerate blood circulation, increase vital capacity, promote growth and development, and improve exercise ability.
3. Increase the strength of abdominal muscles
I believe everyone knows that the abdominal muscles are "tight" and "compressed" in the process of sit-ups, and they work harder. Long-term exercise can greatly enhance the strength of the abdomen and make the muscle group more developed, which is one of the effective methods to exercise the abdominal muscles. Combined with other aerobic exercises, it can play a role in losing weight and bodybuilding, while simple sit-ups can't consume fat better.
4. You can lose weight and exercise your groin.
Sit-ups are a way to develop trunk muscle strength and extensibility, which can exercise abdominal muscles well. Abdominal muscle tightening can better protect the organs in the abdominal cavity, stimulate the groin while exercising abdominal muscles, improve the blood circulation in the abdomen, stretch the muscles in the north, and exercise in a balanced and coordinated way. Long-term exercise can achieve the effect of losing weight and improving your immunity.
Sit-ups are definitely an exercise that can exercise your perseverance, because although the amount of exercise in one sit-up is not very large, it is not easy to achieve results by insisting and maintaining a certain exercise frequency every day. Therefore, the simpler you practice, the more you test your perseverance. Only perseverance can succeed. Do you have the perseverance to stick to it every day?
6. Conducive to gastrointestinal movement
Because you need to coordinate breathing when doing sit-ups, you can constantly stimulate the peristalsis of the stomach during exercise, which is conducive to discharging dirt from the body and dredging the air in the stomach, which can prevent constipation well.
7. Adjust the central nervous system and keep fit.
Sit-ups are a comprehensive exercise method, which can stretch back muscles, ligaments and spine, and have a good regulating effect on the central nervous system. Can be a good exercise: triceps brachii, abdominal muscles, back muscles, pectoralis major and other muscle groups. Doing push-ups often can expand shoulders, strengthen the muscles of arms, abdomen and chest, and make the figure more symmetrical and straight. Push-ups also have a variety of exercise methods, the key is for different exercise purposes.
8. Enhance physical fitness and health.
Regular and comprehensive sit-ups are conducive to physical and mental development, can regulate people's psychology, make people energetic, enhance their physique, cultivate their sentiments, exercise their will and prolong their lives.
However, if sit-ups are not standard, or if you exercise too much, it will also have a very bad influence on your body:
1. Compressing and damaging the spine:
While using abdominal muscles, exercisers are also exercising gluteal muscles, which may lead to back bending and spinal injury, especially those with underdeveloped abdominal muscles. The leverage of gluteal flexor muscle may also lead to the compression of lumbar intervertebral disc.
2. It is easy to cause hip joint injury;
Sit-ups are easy to cause hip joint injury because of their large amplitude. At present, professional coaches suggest changing to abdominal rolling with smaller amplitude and more isolated motion parts (which can be understood as "half sit-ups"). Just don't touch your knees with your elbows, it will relax your abdominal muscles. The key point of exercising muscles is to contract muscles, and the shoulder blades will leave the ground. As for the difference in amplitude, it is only the difference in the strength of six abdominal muscles in three rows, and the training of specific abdominal muscles can be controlled by sit-ups.
3. Holding your head with both hands is easy to hurt the cervical spine;
As many people know, sit-ups with hands on their heads are particularly easy to hurt the cervical spine, which is generally considered as a wrong action. Now many professional coaches suggest not to put your hands behind your head, let alone hold your head on both sides of your ears, so there will be no pressure on the cervical spine.
Besides, no kind of exercise is completely harmless to our health. Exercise is the destruction and reconstruction of our muscle cells. Only the wrong posture or even the wrong posture will do us the most harm. Therefore, when our posture is basically correct, we don't have to worry about this at our amateur level. In addition, the outline of abdominal muscles is innate, and our exercise is only to eliminate fat, so if the diet is not harmonious, any exercise is actually half the effort.