Reverse Crunch

Teaching points

• Lay on your back, with the legs crossed in the air, knees slightly bent
  
  
• Place you arms on the floor by your sides
  
  
• Lift your hips a couple of inches off the floor
  
  
• Hold for 2-3 seconds before returning the hips to the floor

Variations & progressions

• Perform on a decline bench to increase the difficulty
  
  
• Place your hands over your head and grip the bench

Muscles worked

• Lower fibres of Rectus abdominus
  
  
• Transversus abdominus

Alternative exercises

• Crunch
  
  
• Crunch using a resistance band
  
  
• Plank

Related injuries

• Abdominal strain
  
  
• Lower back pain