When doing sit ups do you breathe in or out as you come up?

Question

thanks to everyone who has answered,i know the question sounded silly but it has ALWAYS confused me,you have all been a great help.

tha stew i havnt a clue what fluter kicks are,as you can probably tell by my question

Answer 1

out

Answer 2

What my personal trainer has me do is when doing regular sit ups, he has me do them on a medicine ball thing. (More like a big inflated bouncy ball.) Lie on that with the ball at mid-back. No need to go all the way up, but do small to medium crunches, slowly, and don't curl your chin into your chest, but rather try and point it toward the ceiling. Breathe out and you come up and breathe in as you do back down. Doing slow crunches and the proper breathing gets the best 'bang for your buck' for your ab work out.

Answer 3

When u come up u breath out and then when u go down u breath in. I hope I have helped.

Answer 4

You would breathe out when you come up. In general, you should always breathe out when you are contracting a muscle (performing the exertion).

Answer 5

Breathe Out.
It easier, more natural.
It allows the effort of using your abdominal muscles to sit up assist in breathing.

Answer 6

You breathe out because your coming up and when u go down u need to breathe in bc ur you tighten and suck in ur abs. it's more effective this way

Answer 7

Neither, breath in going down, hold going up, exhale at top, then repeat.

Answer 8

**** sit-ups there bad for your back do fluter kicks they dont hurt your back.

Answer 9

Exhale as you rise (exertion). Here is a depiction of how to do situps:
http://www.spartafit.com/exercise/situp.php

Answer 10

out