Sit-Ups

What is a sit-up?

The visualisation

You lay on the floor and cross your hands over your chest. You take a deep breath and pull your body up using your stomach muscles. The muscles tighten as they lift your torso up until your chin nearly touches your knees. You let out another puff of breath as you lower yourself back to the floor and raise yourself up again. A burning sensation spreads through your stomach muscles as you lift yourself, three, four, five, six times.

The burning stiffness in your core becomes a satisfiying reward as you pull your torso up a seventh time. A small film of sweat is building on your forehead as each sit up is more difficult than the last. Eight, nine, ten, eleven...

You grunt again as you try to find some momentum to bring yourself up for the twelfth time. Your breathing hard and the burning in your abdomen is almost unbearable. You drop to the floor and pull yourself up again. You grimace as you go into the thirteenth sit-up, and somehow push yourself into the fourteenth and then the fifteenth before collapsing on the floor.

Your awareness is soley on the tightness of your abdomen muscles as you spend a moment on the floor, preparing yourself for the next set.