Welcome to one question Monday everyone. This is where Payton Basker, Dr.

Payton Basker and I answer one of your questions as concisely as possible. So today we are going to get into

crunches. There is a lot of talk on social media about how crunches are bad.

Stop doing crunches, like do different ab exercises instead.

But we do a lot of crunches and we do it in a variation

where we put a ball behind our back and we think they're excellent for hypertrophy.

So we want to talk about ball crunches a little bit about should you be doing crunches or shouldn't you be doing crunches?

So Payton, what is your take on this? should you be doing crunches or shouldn't you be doing crunches. So,

Pavement, what is your take on this?

I think it's really interesting. I hadn't thought about it super specifically until I

started seeing it so much on social media

and it's like, why is there now this,

you know, quote of what attack on crunches?

And what one thing is that I think

that they're more talking about general crunches where you're coming from being in all the way flat position and just curling the body up and one of I think the reasonings is they feel that they're not as effective or you don't get as deep within the

abdominals and with a generalizer regular crunch where you're just starting from flat and going up,

I could see where maybe they're coming from there.

It's not a super big range of motion and a lot of times, unfortunately, people are most likely

are like cranking on their head or not really utilizing their abdominals to get into that position.

So I could see it from that perspective.

I don't think this is as much as how they think of it, but from a PT perspective, I could see maybe some PT's

having an issue with excessive lumbar flexion,

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