decline-sit-up
Lie on your back with knees bent, feet flat on the floor, hip-width apart. Place hands lightly behind your head (avoid pulling) or cross them over your chest.
- Equipment
- No Equipment
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Focus Area
- Abs
- Injury risk
- Low
Primary muscles
- Rectus Abdominis
- Iliopsoas
Secondary muscles
- Obliques
- Sartorius
- Rectus Femoris
- Tensor Fasciae Latae
Target muscles
- abs
- hips
How to perform
- 1
Lie on your back with knees bent, feet flat on the floor, hip-width apart.
- 2
Place hands lightly behind your head (avoid pulling) or cross them over your chest.
- 3
Engage your core by drawing your navel towards your spine and bracing your abdominals.
- 4
Exhale as you slowly curl your upper body off the floor, leading with your chest towards your knees.
- 5
Continue until your torso is upright or as far as comfortable, keeping your lower back stable.
- 6
Inhale as you slowly lower your torso back to the starting position with control, vertebra by vertebra.
Safety & form
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