Single Leg V-Up

Teaching points

• Lay on your back on the floor with one knee bent and one straight
  
  
• Hold a medicine ball in both hands, above your head
  
  
• Lift your head, neck and shoulders off the ground as you would in a crunch
  
  
• At the same time lift the straight leg off the floor and bring the medicine ball forwards to meet the raised leg
  
  
• Slowly return to the starting position

Variations and progressions

• Raise both legs to progress the exercise

Muscles worked

• Rectus Abdominus
  
  
• Transversus Abdominus
  
  
• Iliopsoas

Alternative exercises

• Reverse crunch
  
  
• Medicine ball reverse crunch
  
  
• Plank

Related injuries

• Lower back pain
  
  
• Abdominal strain