Oblique Crunches - On The Floor

Core · Bodyweight

How to do it

Lie **on your side** with your legs stacked and knees slightly bent. Put your top hand beside your head and the bottom one on your belly. Lift your top shoulder towards your hip by **bending your side**, hold a second squeezing the oblique and lower slowly. The range is a few centimetres and that is the point: pure side flexion with no hip flexion at all. The classic mistake is rolling onto your back mid-set and turning it into a normal crunch.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

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