Category: Exercises & Stretching

HERNIA EXERCISES: How to Do Decline Situps With and Without a Bench

Healthline A decline situp bench positions your upper body at an angle so that it’s lower than your hips and thighs. This positioning causes your body to work harder, since you have to work against gravity and through a wider range of motion. Decline situps are an effective core exercise to add to your fitness routine. They improve core strength,… Read more →

HYPOPRESSIVE EXERCISE & HERNIA HEALING

The Hypopressive Exercise: The Hypo What? The Hypopressive exercise, also known as Hypopressive Abdominal Gymnastics, is a relatively recent technique used to help in exercising the pelvic floor and toning the abdomen. The reason Hypopressives are called Abdominal Hypopressive Gymnastics is due to the fact that the workout can be considered a sport in itself. (And it’s quick too! No… Read more →

Lower Belly Exercises While Sitting Down

by Anton Reid AZCentral.com Your lower belly, also called your lower abdominal, is comprised of muscles that assist in protecting delicate organs, while providing propulsion and stability. These muscles are attached to your pelvis and help keep your upper and lower body stable while stationary or moving. Your lower belly is sensitive to contractions and can be strengthened through simple… Read more →

9 Minute Oblique Workout

An at Home Ab Workout with Exercises for Love Handles by Fitness Blender [youtube_sc url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyFIKDLmYyo&w=560&h=315] These obliques exercises are combined with intervals of cardio moves that also target the oblique and abs muscles to help you burn calories while you firm your sides. This ab routine counts as both an internal and external oblique workout, though it should be… Read more →

Dr. Jay Seaver Said to Strengthen the Obliques for Permament Hernia Repair

A VERY IMPORTANT QUALIFICATION To All Readers Coach Note: Most of the routines shown below are not suitable for hernia sufferers. Only certain ones are acceptable to be included in an exercise routine. Those few that are safe are best started in a specific way so as to not injure the hernia site. They are then graduated to more difficult… Read more →