In this video, I talk about why crunches suck as part of treating your hernia naturally. If you are doing crunches and thinking you’re going to strengthen the muscles needed to hold back the lump from popping out, you would be wrong.

The muscles that need to be tightened are:

1. The Transversus Abominis

2. The Inner Oblique

3. The outer Oblique.

As I show in my other video on how to strengthen the Transversus Abdominis muscle, I also incorporate the cremaster muscle in the exercise. This is the muscle that lifts and drops the testes as the temperature fluctuates to keep sperm at the correct temperature. Using this exercise was part of how I was able to go from having a hernia the size of two golf balls, to having no lump at all.