Abdominal Exercises: Advanced Oblique Curls

Video Transcript

"You've mastered a basic and intermediate level of an oblique curl or lateral flexion for the waistline. So your basic -both feet on the floor, taking one foot out of the picture causing more of a balance challenge here. Now for a third level progression we're going to extend and if you need to you can put both hands behind here instead of starting here as you would a basic or intermediate. But our goal is still the same, but as we crunch and contract in that waistline we're going to lift and reverse curl at the same time. So you've got three exercises going on here at once: you've got your transverse in the middle here, lifting; and as you curl you bring in that waistline towards the mid-line of the body, so now you've facilitated your obliques; and you've got the lower part, it's all one muscle, it's not a separate muscle, but you have focus on the lower part from the pubic to navel, navel to pubic bone, and crunch and release. So again, basic, intermediate, advanced and control the momentum as a result of contraction and release. And you can see by taking my feet in the air I can really facilitate by the obliques, but I've got to control all the momentum with breath and strength and range of motion into the muscle. Once you've mastered your two, basic and intermediate, then work in your advanced way, starting out 10 on each side. "