Tailbone hurting when doing mat work

I have the same problem, and I haven't found a solution...

Are you making sure your lower back is flat against the floor, when you make your exercises? Imagine pulling your bellybutton down towards the floor.

Try and look into basic pilates techniques when doing abbs and so on. And do them slow and controlled.

Are you making sure your lower back is flat against the floor, when you make your exercises? Imagine pulling your bellybutton down towards the floor.

Try and look into basic pilates techniques when doing abbs and so on. And do them slow and controlled.

^^This. I used to have the same problem until I looked into exercises for back pain and to strengthen my core muscles. Remembering to "push" your lower back into the floor (basically a pelvic tilt) makes all the difference. This is the website that I found useful.
http://www.bigbackpain.com/back_exercises.html

Question Gals, did all of you had babies with this problem? Reason why I ask is because I have heard this before from many females who happen to have had babies. Not saying that this is the case and that is why you have the pain but pretty funny thing for me to read this.

Alot of women do get lower back pain from having a child and/or a shot in there back. But thats not quite where the tailbone would be at.

I don't have trouble with my tailbone, but my hips feel like they are digging into the floor if I do a lot of mat work. I have a flat pillow that I'll use when this happens and it doesn't seem to affect my form or ability to do the exercises. It makes such a difference! Just make sure it's not too puffy.

Mine only hurts when I'm doing things like Russian twists when I actually sit right on it, and most of it is from breaking it back in december falling down some steps. I find doubling my mat really helps give enough cushioning to avoid most of the pain.

Mine only hurts when I'm doing things like Russian twists when I actually sit right on it, and most of it is from breaking it back in december falling down some steps. I find doubling my mat really helps give enough cushioning to avoid most of the pain.

Yes -- this. I haven't had children so I don't think that's an issue. But doubling the mat and/or using two (or even three if they're available) mats helps a lot.

I don't have the tailbone problem, but I have a bulging disc in my lower back that makes things like crunches, sit ups, etc..anything that involves pushing my lower back into the floor to be absolutely excrutiating, so I don't do anything like that. Instead, I'll do c-sit or v positions, standing ab work, plank work, and crunches and other ab workouts on an exercise ball. There's so many other options for ab work that are just as good, if not better, than having to actually lay down on the mat if it's uncomfortable for you.

I have this problem too! I guess I have a big tailbone, my mama has the same, even when I like sit on the floor against a wall it hurts to get up sometimes. When doing ab work or whatever on the floor, I usually put a ****ty pillow underneath, I don't see any harm in it! Also when doing GIRL pushups I put a pillow under my knees, lol. But now I can do a REAL pushup! Maximum of 2 though

I don't have Scoliosis(sp?) but my tailbone curves out a bit more than other people. There are some exercises I simply cannot do because of the painful pressure. Anything lying on my back and tilting the pelvis is completely out. I haven't found a way around it. I just do other things.

Sorry this wasn't more helpful. Good luck!

i find i have this problem now that my hip bones have less "cushioning" on them. heh. for yoga, i find that tilting my hips helps - basically repositioning on the mat until i have more of a cushion under them

my current theory is that with the fat going, i need to build up muscle as a cushion. i notice it with a lot of places where my bones have less fat covering them now - if someone pokes my ribs, OMG! i never used to be able to feel it and now it hurts!

Yep, I have this problem too since I've lost all of my weight. I attribute it to the fact that I don't have any padding left so it's bone on mat (seriously, my *kitten* is now so flat it's practically concave. LOL!)

I literally cannot do a traditional sit up because it hurts my tailbone.

I'm a male that has had the same trouble; a few years ago when I first try doing a pilates workout, I could do any of the floor exercises; namely anything that required raising my legs in the air and putting weight on my lower back/tailbone, as the pain was exceptionally uncomfortable - so I stopped doing it for a while. I had lost a fair amount of weight and decided to try the work out again, using extra padding, putting down several blankets, along with a pilates mat; the pain was still there, but less intense and I could work through it, and eventually I didn't notice it at all. Then after a time, gained back a lot of the weight and tried getting back into a workout routine, particularly the pilates workout I had done before, but here again I couldn't do half the workout, because there was too much discomfort along my tailbone during the floor exercises, no matter how much padding I put on the floor - which is already carpeted and not even all that hard to begin with...