Side Crunches

Video Transcript

"The next exercise I'm going to show you is a very simple exercise for your obliques. You're going to start on your back. This time, you're going to let your knees drop toward the floor. Your chest is, however, up toward the ceiling. From here, placing your hands at your temples. You want to lift your shoulder blades off the floor. It's okay if your knees come up off the floor a little bit. They don't have to be glued to the ground. Let your knees come up a little bit. So in essence you're working your abdominals as well, your obliques are coming into the mix as well. You can change the tempo up a little bit. This is about a two count up, two count down tempo. You can switch it up, one count up, one count down. Don't let your shoulder blades touch the floor completely. Once again, you can hold at the top and you can tighten your range of motion, shorten that range of motion. Just a few ways you can change up this exercise: Once you've done a set on one side, you need to do the other side as well, so drop your knees in the opposite direction and perform this exercise on the other side, same number of reps. It's another way you can work your abdominal muscles and your obliques."