AbMat Sit-up
Lie on your back with an AbMat positioned under your lower back, knees bent, and feet flat on the floor. Place your hands lightly behind your head or crossed over your chest.
- Equipment
- No Equipment
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Focus Area
- Abs
- Injury risk
- Low
Primary muscles
- rectus abdominis
Secondary muscles
- obliques
- iliopsoas
Target muscles
- abs
- hips
How to perform
- 1
Lie on your back with an AbMat positioned under your lower back, knees bent, and feet flat on the floor.
- 2
Place your hands lightly behind your head or crossed over your chest.
- 3
Engage your core, exhale, and slowly curl your upper body off the mat, leading with your chest.
- 4
Continue to lift until your chest approaches your thighs, touching your hands to your feet or the floor in front of you if possible.
- 5
Inhale and slowly reverse the movement, controlling your descent vertebra by vertebra back onto the AbMat.
- 6
Allow your back to gently extend over the mat at the bottom, achieving a full range of motion before the next repetition.
Safety & form
Train smart. Read these notes before adding heavy load.
