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Sit-ups
Core · Bodyweight
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 5
Reps6 to 15
RIR1 to 2
Load is fixed, so progress by adding reps first, then by slowing the lowering phase, then by adding weight.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Abs.
Secondary: Hip flexors.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Sit-ups
- Swedish Situps
- Danish Sit-ups
- German Sit-ups
- Spanish Abdominales completos
- Italian Sit-up
- Portuguese Abdominal completo
- Russian Подъёмы туловища
- French Redressements assis
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