Oblique Crunches - On The Floor

How to perform

1. 01Start out by lying on your right side with your legs lying on top of each other. Make sure your knees are bent a little bit.
2. 02Place your left hand behind your head.
3. 03Once you are in this set position, begin by moving your left elbow up as you would perform a normal crunch except this time the main emphasis is on your obliques.
4. 04Crunch as high as you can, hold the contraction for a second and then slowly drop back down into the starting position.
5. 05Remember to breathe in during the eccentric (lowering) part of the exercise and to breathe out during the concentric (elevation) part of the exercise.

Form cues

• —Lead with the elbows and finish by squeezing the target muscle.
• —Control the lowering phase — that is where most of the growth stimulus lives.

Common mistakes

• —Using momentum instead of the target muscle.
• —Cutting the range of motion short to add load.