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Oblique crunch

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Oblique crunch

Beginner10 repsNo jumping

Muscles worked

Obliques

You need

No equipment

How to do it

  1. Place an exercise or yoga mat on the floor and lie down with your knees bent and feet flat.
  2. Put your fingers at the back of your head for the starting position.
  3. Engage your abs and take a breath.
  4. Crunch and twist your torso to the left, bringing your right elbow to the left knee.
  5. Hold the top position for a moment and lower yourself to the floor as you exhale.
  6. Take another breath and crunch, twisting to the right this time, having your left elbow touch the right knee.
  7. Keep alternating between crunching to the left and right, taking a breath before each repetition, and tapping each knee as you twist.
  8. Alternatively:

By Philip Stefanov. Exercise instructions from Hevy, used under licence.