Like all exercises, one must always stretch and warm up prior to performing any exercise. The perfect stretch to use before the curl-up assessment is the trunk lift which stretches out your abdominals. You also want to incorporate shoudler shrugs as a stretch. The curl up engages alot of muscles in your trapezius muscles on the concentric aspect of the repetiton, so you definatly want to loosen up that part of your body which will allow you to obtain more repetitions.
There are many variations to the curl-up that one can do to prepare themselves for this assessment.
-sit ups
-leg raises
-planks
-leg extensions (laying flat on mat)
-oblique twists
If you perform at least 2 of these motions a day of 4 sets of as many repetitons as you can, your core will definatly develop.
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