why bloating occurs AFTER doing abdominal exercises

your stomich should get flatter & you should notice that your over all posture is improving if you keep up the hard work :-D. Working abs was & still is the hardest muscle group for me to work out, The bloating sounds like your eating something you shouldn't be before or after you ab work out. Wat kind of protain are you eating? alot of salts(sodium?) i bloat hard if i eat to much of that. Just watch wat you eat & keep up the hard work you won't regret it.

Hi I just wondered if you got a solution or reason for this as I have exactly the same problem - been working my abs/core and now have extremely bad bloating and hard lower abdomen!

I have looked this up for years with no answer. Everybody always says “must be something you’re eating” or “must be something else you’re doing wrong”. Like NO, it’s not and I’m 100% positive. I don’t do ab works outs because of the bloating and constipation I get for days afterward. Sometimes even weeks! I’ll get really bad gas pains when I breathe in sometimes to the point where it feels like I’m being stabbed. It passes after a minute or two but it’s scary. No doctor, functional medicine specialist, or nutritionist has ever been able to tell me what it could be. I hate not working abs but it just hasn’t been worth it for me. Even with a very healthy paleo diet and more than enough fiber to sustain me.

I have the hardest time with this and so I just avoid ab exercises. However as of late if I take a CLA after a workout that includes abs (like 20-30 min ab work) I find my stomach barely having any issues. Which is huge because usually it’s get ls bloated and sticks out. So maybe try finding a good CLA supplement and see if that helps.