Can I do sit-ups after giving birth?

Women are actually very fragile, especially when they are pregnant. If they are not careful, their children will be affected. There are some exercises that women cannot do after giving birth. What issues should women pay attention to after giving birth? Today I will share with you whether it is right for women to do sit-ups after giving birth! If you use scientific methods, you will have a healthy body.

Generally speaking, women who give birth naturally recover faster. One week after giving birth, if you feel that your physical strength has recovered, you can try doing sit-ups, but the amount of exercise should not be too much.

The exercise time should be gradually extended to a maximum of about 20 to 40 minutes. The amount of exercise should also be gradually increased, otherwise it will be detrimental to the body's recovery after childbirth; and mothers who have undergone caesarean section are best to wait until the wound heals before exercising, which generally takes at least a week.

Sit-ups, a form of exercise. Lie on your back with your legs together and your hands raised. Contract your abdominal muscles and swing your arms forward. Quickly sit down. Continue to bend your upper body forward, touch your feet with your hands, and lower your head. Then return to a sitting position. This process continues. When doing sit-ups, the speed varies from person to person. Initially, you can try to do it 5 times a minute, and then slowly increase it until you reach about 30 times a minute. Many women under 30 years old practice to prevent gynecological diseases. At this time, the frequency should be controlled at 45 to 50 times per minute, which should decrease with age. For those over 50 years old, 25 times per minute is enough. For those who have a certain fitness foundation, they want to achieve the goal of strengthening abdominal strength through exercise, so they need to ensure that they do it about 60 times a minute.

When doing sit-ups, the knee joint can be divided into two postures: straight and bent, and the main functional muscles used to complete the movements are different. Doing sit-ups with your knees straight mainly exercises the iliopsoas muscle (ilium, the bones on both sides of the abdomen below the waist, the lower edge of which is connected to the pubic bone and ischium to form the hip bone). The iliopsoas muscle contracts while being fixed, causing the trunk to bend at the hip joint. Sit-ups with straight legs can also increase the burden on your back and can easily cause damage to it. When doing sit-ups with bent knees (bending the knees also produces hip flexion), the rectus abdominis (including the internal and external oblique muscles) is mainly contracted under fixed conditions, causing the trunk to flex forward and the pelvis to tilt forward. Obviously, the flexion of the hip joint causes the hip psoas muscle to contract before the rectus abdominis muscle when lying on your back in the preparatory position, resulting in the contraction of the hip psoas muscle during sit-ups.

I think the best thing for women after giving birth is to get nutrition from food, exercise regularly, and maintain a good mood so that there will be no sequelae and their body and mind will be healthier. Therefore, scientific health care is the fundamental solution to the health of female friends! Need to pay attention to the baby's proper growth.