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Jun 2011
9:25pm, 28 Jun 2011
4,914 posts
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runner duck
are you doing full sit ups or crunches?
as someone suggested your back pain might be due to ab strength (or lack of it!) and tightness. i would think you are better to try strength and stretching work rather than insoles etc.
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Jun 2011
9:29pm, 28 Jun 2011
35,406 posts
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plodding hippo
ful sit ups?????????
eek, wuld NEVER do those
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Jun 2011
9:40pm, 28 Jun 2011
1,048 posts
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Kimmy
But PH you could get the strongest hip flexors ever doing sit ups 
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Jun 2011
9:43pm, 28 Jun 2011
28 posts
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slowmarc-belfast
yeah full sit ups.lol have to training for the army an all that
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Jun 2011
9:46pm, 28 Jun 2011
4,952 posts
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Footpad
Situps, bending over to touch my toes, golf..... all things I have abandonned to stop my back hurting! Funnily enough running helps it a lot!
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Jun 2011
9:51pm, 28 Jun 2011
2,627 posts
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Cuddy
I don't do traditional sit ups, but pilates roll ups yes. But I don't think there's actually much of a difference...lol
Marc, I feel your pain. I have some very messed up feet, which currently sit in NHS (free) orthotics every day with comfort. When I first started wearing them I could barely walk a few steps, they felt that painful and took 2 weeks to break them in to be able to walk, but now wearing them is like heaven. So be patient. I've come to terms that I have a very messed up right ankle which I've sprained several times ever since I was a kid competing in gymnastics, the tendons are totally calcified, it does a lovely snapping sound ever so often. Same foot ended up with a pulled calf, achilles tendonistis and plantar fasciitis back to back to back. So my empathies. I've luckily had good physios, all NHS, not paid a penny. I've actually come to the conclusion that I'd be better off not running and just x-train. It feels a bit strange saying that on a running site. I might be expelled I might change my mind sometime in the future but not for now.
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Jun 2011
9:55pm, 28 Jun 2011
4,916 posts
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runner duck
if your back is hurting do full sit-ups the chances are your abs aren't strong enough and your back is having compensate and therefore hurting. you probably need to go back to crunches/plank etc and work from there. are you in a gym? if you are get some advice.
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Jun 2011
9:57pm, 28 Jun 2011
35,413 posts
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plodding hippo
ful sit up fuck your back and have NO point
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Jun 2011
9:58pm, 28 Jun 2011
35,414 posts
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plodding hippo
I can do crunches till cows come home
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Jun 2011
10:00pm, 28 Jun 2011
35,415 posts
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plodding hippo
soz, but as a chronic back sufferer with no feeling in my left leg, I do NOT aprove of full sit ups
(medical doc too,l tho not ortho)
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