heel-touch-abs
Lie on your back with knees bent, feet flat on the floor, hip-width apart, and heels close to your glutes. Lift your head and shoulders slightly off the floor, engaging your core, with arms extended by your sides.
- Equipment
- No Equipment
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Focus Area
- Abs
- Injury risk
- Low
Primary muscles
- obliques (internal and external)
- rectus abdominis
Secondary muscles
- transversus abdominis
Target muscles
- abs
How to perform
- 1
Lie on your back with knees bent, feet flat on the floor, hip-width apart, and heels close to your glutes.
- 2
Lift your head and shoulders slightly off the floor, engaging your core, with arms extended by your sides.
- 3
Keeping your lower back pressed into the floor, reach your right hand towards your right heel by laterally flexing your torso.
- 4
Return to the center, maintaining the lifted head and shoulders.
- 5
Immediately reach your left hand towards your left heel by laterally flexing your torso.
- 6
Continue alternating sides in a controlled manner, focusing on the side crunch.
Safety & form
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