Doing crunches in both a safe and effective manner require a good deal of body awareness and anatomical knowledge.
Crunches on bed or floor.
Do a few easy moves while still in bed for the best of both worlds.
Although the softness of your bed surface can alleviate this discomfort inadequate support from a sagging mattress platform can also cause back strain and discomfort.
Raise your legs high up off the bed to create a butterfly shape.
Sure if you do them right crunches can be harmless.
Not hard surface like concrete.
Place your hands on the floor in a handstand position.
If you can get a carpet rug or something spongey for the floor that should be good enough.
Planks is the best and the only way to do best ab workou.
No longer do you have to choose between working your abs and getting out of bed.
No longer do you have to choose between working your abs and getting out of bed.
10 reasons why you should not do crunches 1.
Even if we talk about hard mattresses these are deformed with the weight of our body and we can never compare a mattress of a bed hard as it seems with a mat on the floor.
Your feet will naturally twist as you do.
They can be dangerous.
Floor is better than bed but you want matting.
That should do the trick.
Do a few easy moves while still in bed for the best of both worlds.
This exercise targets the lower abdominals.
But it is better you do it on the floor but not directly.
Slide yourself forward until your hips are on the side of the bed.
You can still transform your body with exercises you can do right on your mattress.
Fine stay in bed.
Lying on your back place the soles of your feet together.
Choose a few of them or complete every move and perform as many reps as you can in 30 seconds.
The reason you don t want to do it on the bed is that it has too much give which allows you to curl easier.
Since you re on a wobbly surface on your soft mattress this exercise might be more challenging in bed to keep your body in line.
But having taught dance and conditioning for over a decade most people are not doing them right.
It ll work your abs more to keep your body in line on this unstable surface.
Its fine but less effective.
The position of the back and neck when doing crunches is very important if we are on a soft surface these parts do not support or are in the correct position so it can.
There s a saying no pain no gain.
I mean do it on a yoga mat.