CROSS BODY CRUNCH





Step By Step

Step 1: Lie down on your back on the floor. Bend your knees and place your feet on the floor. Clasp your fingers behind your head to offer support for your head and neck. Make sure your elbows are out to the side and out of your peripheral vision.

Step 2: Exhale and crunch up as you twist your torso to touch your opposite elbow to your opposite knee, thus your left elbow reaches for your right knee.  

Step 3: Inhale and slowly lower back to the floor. 

Step 4: Switch to the other side and repeat. Don’t completely relax your abs between repetitions, keep them taut. Do 15 to 20 repetitions to each side or a total of 30 to 40 crunches.  

To make this move harder add weight such as holding onto a medicine ball as you crunch. To easy up, keep one shoulder on the ground as you twist up (left shoulder on floor if right elbow it reaching for right knee and vice versa).

Benefits

Targets your abdominals specifically the obliques and upper rectus abdominis muscles. A great exercise to help improve your golf game.

Superset with

Reverse Crunch, to exercise and strengthen your lower rectus abdominis muscle.


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