Knottedyet,

Thanks for the reply, but I'm being very dim, and don't quite understand what you mean by "planks". Could you explain a bit more?

Also, since you seem to be in the know, when I occasionally do ab-crunches or diagonal ones, how can I stop the front of my neck from hurting?

Do you also know anything about hip pain when walking? I think that my hips are hurting because I have a pretty strong dog who is constantly pulling on the lead (and all this even after dog-training), and I am using my hips to resist him. Before I take the dogs for a walk I have little-to-no pain, but once I start walking with them, the pain starts, and then continues even once I have let him off the lead. Any thoughts?

Sorry for the list of questions