Oblique Crunch

Oblique Crunch Instructions

• Lie down on the floor with your legs slightly bent at the knee. 
• Rotate your hips subtly to one side. 
• 11 o'clock if targeting the right oblique.
• 1 o'clock for the left.
• Whatever side you are trying to work, put that respective hand behind your head. 
• There will be slight rotation with this exercise since your hips are rotated. 
• Initiate and control the movement with your obliques by elevating and rotating your torso subtly towards the knee.
• Your elbow will come off of the ground towards the knee.
• This is not a large range-of-motion.
• Return to the starting position and feel your oblique lengthen during the eccentric.

*Tips*

• This is a controlled movement with a limited range-of-motion. Resist the urge to speed through it.
• Everything is initiated and controlled by the obliques, not momentum.