full-sit-up
Lie on your back with knees bent, feet flat on the floor hip-width apart, and hands lightly behind your head or crossed over your chest. Engage your core, pressing your lower back gently into the floor.
- Equipment
- No Equipment
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Focus Area
- Abs
- Injury risk
- Low
Primary muscles
- Rectus Abdominis
- Iliopsoas
Secondary muscles
- Obliques
- Rectus Femoris
- Sartorius
Target muscles
- abs
- hips
How to perform
- 1
Lie on your back with knees bent, feet flat on the floor hip-width apart, and hands lightly behind your head or crossed over your chest.
- 2
Engage your core, pressing your lower back gently into the floor.
- 3
Exhale as you curl your torso up, lifting your head, shoulders, and then upper back off the floor, aiming to bring your chest towards your knees.
- 4
Continue lifting until your torso is upright, or as far as comfortable without straining your back.
- 5
Inhale as you slowly lower your torso back down, vertebra by vertebra, maintaining core control.
- 6
Return to the starting position with control, avoiding letting your body 'flop' back down.
Safety & form
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