Medicine Ball Reverse Crunch

Teaching points

• Lay on your back the floor with the knees bent
  
  
• Hold a small medicine ball inbetween your knees and place your arms on the floor out to the sides
  
  
• Keep your knees bent as you raise your feet and then buttocks, off the floor
  
  
• Keep the lower back in contact with the floor
  
  
• Return to the starting position

Muscles worked

• Rectus Abdominus
  
  
• Transversus Abdominus

Alternative exercises

• Reverse Crunch
  
  
• Plank

Related injuries

• Lower back pain