Technique
- Lie on your side on the ground, with the arms straight overhead.
- Lift your legs up and crunch the side of your body to lift your upper torso off the ground.
- Balance in that position, with only your hip and the side of your lower trunk touching the ground.
Logging: Work each side for the time indicated.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Obliques
- Pelvis
- Spine
Secondary
- Neck
- Abs
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- External oblique
- Internal oblique
- Quadratus lumborum
- Spinalis thoracis
- Longissimus thoracis
- Iliocostalis
Equipment
Appears in
Balance
Joint movements
Trunklateral flexion
trains stretches
Progressions
Body side roll
Intermediate
Regressions
Hollow side body hold arms down
Novice
Side body crunch arms down
Novice
Variations
Side body crunch
Novice
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