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Long-arm crunches

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Long-arm crunches

Beginner10 repsNo jumping

Muscles worked

Abs

You need

No equipment

How to do it

  1. Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor, and stretch both arms straight back behind your head.
  2. Keeping the arms extended in line with your ears, crunch up - lifting your head, shoulders and arms off the floor as one long unit - then lower back down with control.
  3. The straight arms lengthen the lever your abs have to lift, which turns an ordinary crunch into a noticeably longer conversation with your midsection.
  4. The range stays small; the reach stays long.

Exercise from Darebee, used under licence.