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Sep 28	comment	Are sit-ups harmful to female anatomy? @DaveLiepmann I edited my post as I mentioned.
Sep 28	revised	Are sit-ups harmful to female anatomy? i've elaborated to tone down any sense of "scaremongering"
Sep 28	comment	Are sit-ups harmful to female anatomy? @DaveLiepmann Can you double-check that the first article is still behind a paywall? If not, I can try to find other ways to link it. It really does not go with the tack you're taking, as it does encourage women to exercise, just with this caution in mind maybe if you are postmenopausal or have had a baby or incontinence (not all that uncommon conditions) and to do compensatory exercises to strengthen the pelvic floor. I'll see about editing my comment. I'm sure you are and I want the same thing here: safe and healthy promotion of exercise for women. Thanks for the input.
Sep 28	comment	Are sit-ups harmful to female anatomy? @DavidR The 2nd article is intended for such a person, yes. But in the interest of thoroughness, and because a weak pelvic floor or related problems like prolapse are caused by entirely common female life circumstances, such as aging or pregnancy, isn't it worth at least providing this information on the page amongst other answers?
Sep 28	comment	Are sit-ups harmful to female anatomy? @DaveLiepmann, not sure how this is scaremongering when I indicated that this concern is one for those who have a weak pelvic floor--which some women have. I also include mention that there are ways to strengthen the pelvic floor to avoid this concern. If I were a woman wanting to do sit-ups, I wouldn't take this as scaring me as much as "forewarned is forearmed". And isn't that what this site is intended to do? To provide information to make an informed decision?
Sep 28	comment	Are sit-ups harmful to female anatomy? This strikes me as ranty. Sure, there is a history of poor sports advice for women, but on the other hand there are differences in female anatomy and sit-ups do interact with those differences in some cases. Is this to say sit-ups must be ruled out for all women? No. But should all women ignore this concern? No. It's just applying knowledge as warranted, right?
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Aug 7	comment	How do I bench press safely without a spotter? I have done the bar tip, once, when I first started and didn't have a good sense of where failure was. In my case the floor and plates were OK, but it turned some heads.
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May 22	comment	Are sit-ups harmful to female anatomy? Just a comment on your reason for suggesting sit-ups: they will probably not work to spot reduce. Generally, only losing weight overall will help with reducing the amount fat she has in that area or any area, and sometimes an area one wants is "the last to go".
May 22	comment	Are sit-ups harmful to female anatomy? This answer mostly does not appear directly address the OP's concern, which I take to be the physiological concern of creating lower abdominal pressure which, in certain cases, can promote a prolapsed uterus, incontinence, or related problems, as mentioned in the first article I cited (that woman had had a child one year prior).
May 21	answered	Are sit-ups harmful to female anatomy?
May 8	asked	Exercising at higher temperatures
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May 3	revised	Running often enough to lose weight the OP is apparently mainly interested in losing weight, not "making progress", so I've edited the title to show that. I also edited the body of the question to focus it to be clearly about weight-loss.
May 2	suggested	suggested edit on Running often enough to lose weight
May 2	comment	Running often enough to lose weight When you say "make progress", what do you mean? In your ability to run? As in increasing cardiovascular fitness? Because at the end you mention running being "about" weight loss, so I'm a little unclear on what your exact goals are.