Technique
- Lying on your back, legs slightly apart, knees bent at 90 degrees, feet secured, hands either on your temple on on your opposite shoulder.
- Lift your back smoothly towards your knees and then bring your elbow to the opposite knee.
- Slowly reverse the motion on the way down.
Logging: Each repetition involves working both sides.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Abs
- Obliques
- Pelvis
- Quadriceps
- Spine
Secondary
- Hip adductors
- Neck
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Rectus abdominis
- External oblique
- Internal oblique
- Iliacus
- Rectus femoris
- Psoas major
- Longissimus thoracis
- Iliocostalis
Equipment
Appears in
Regressions
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