Originally Posted by
FirehouseCowboy
It's no problem, I don't take constructive input as 'sounding like a jerk'. But as I said before usually when I take my IST I'm muffing up my crunches generally because I push myself so hard in the rest of the PT by the time I get to my IST then I'm halfway exhausted anyway, and as I usually end up doing crunches last once my back hits that ground I just want to pass out. Granted that's no excuse but even when I went to my field meet where PT wasn't a focus point they were still trying to get us used to the idea of DI's and they'd FIND a reason to make us push or work and I always ended up being around the dude they jumped on. There was one spot where I had the gift of DI PT three times in quick succession one...after the other...after the other. I haven't been focusing on crunches in my personal PT habits but after the last IST I started. Because I'm actually a REALLY skinny dude. High metabolism and the fact that I was athletic at younger early teenage years. Crunches in general have never given me a problem, I think it's less the fact that I can't do them and more that my technique is off or I jus haven't mentally pushed myself like I do in the other areas where I actually feel are a problem. i.e. the time I muffed up my crunches in the last IST when I was done my arms and chest were hurting. My stomach, on the other hand, was completely fine. Not exactly how that's supposed to work.