{"id":14173,"date":"2019-08-14T02:04:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T02:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=14173"},"modified":"2019-08-14T02:04:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T02:04:47","slug":"when-exercise-leads-to-a-pulled-abdominal-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/fitness\/when-exercise-leads-to-a-pulled-abdominal-muscles\/","title":{"rendered":"When Exercise Leads to a Pulled Abdominal Muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise is one of the best ways to stay healthy, but sometimes it can do more harm than good\u2014such as when you pull your abdominal muscles.<\/p>\n<h3>What causes a pulled abdominal muscle<\/h3>\n<p>Generally, a pulled muscle is caused by overuse, excessive force or by stretching a muscle too much. In terms of pulling abdominal muscles when you exercise, it could be caused by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p> using the wrong technique during exercise<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> suddenly twisting your body<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> lifting something heavy incorrectly<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> overexercising the abdominal muscles<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> failing to warm up properly<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How bad is it?<\/h3>\n<p>You\u2019ll probably know you pulled your abdominal muscles because it will hurt, having swelling, muscle spasms or bruising, or make it difficult to stretch before exercise.<\/p>\n<p>But just how serious is a pulled abdominal muscle? That depends. There are three levels of severity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p> Mild strain: This will cause the fibers to stretch or tear, but your strength won\u2019t be affected.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> Medium strain: This will cause more torn fibers than a mild strain and there more be bruising or swelling. You\u2019ll notice that your muscle is more weak than usual.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> Severe strain: If you rip the muscle, it will be very painful and you\u2019ll lose muscle strength.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Someone people think they have a hernia\u2014a bulge in the abdomen when fat, tissue or part of the small intestines pokes through the weakened part of the abdominal muscles\u2014when it\u2019s actually just an abdominal pull. But a hernia will often call pain or burning in the groin area (or swelling in the scrotum), especially in men.<\/p>\n<h3>When it\u2019s serious enough to see a doc<\/h3>\n<p>Most minor abdominal muscle pulls will heal themselves. You\u2019ll just need to rest it and avoid doing anything to strenuous.<\/p>\n<p>But the pain is long-lasting, gets worse or is accompanies by nausea, vomiting, fever or a red and tender bulge in the groin, you will need to seek treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise is one of the best ways to stay healthy, but sometimes it can do more harm than good\u2014such as when you pull your abdominal muscles. What causes a pulled abdominal muscle Generally, a pulled muscle is caused by overuse, excessive force or by stretching a muscle too much. In terms of pulling abdominal muscles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[770],"class_list":["post-14173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness","tag-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}