How to do a Reverse Crunch

Video Transcript

"Alright, next I'm going to show you a reverse crunch. Its going to work your lower abs as well as help out in area of your lower back and your hip flexors. So what you want to do is grab a seat on the mat. Come on back down, your back is flat and your neck's going to be nice and comfortable. You want to rest your hands at your sides. You want to bring your knees up at about 90 degrees and what you want to do is just come on up, roll your knees in towards your chest and lift your hips, lift your butt off the mat and come on back down. Your heels are going to touch, you're going to pull in and you're going to roll your knees, roll your hips off the mat, knees towards the chest. What you don't want to do is push on your hands to force the crunch. Makes the exercise ineffective, so again what you want to do is just these are your hands are here just for balance just want to roll your hips in, roll your knees in and roll your hips off the mat, that's a nice squeeze. Don't swing them down, just release and lower. So what that is is you want to squeeze release and lower. A variation of this exercise is to grab yourself a medicine ball, place that between your legs, its going to add a little bit more intensity. You want to come down, squeeze those lower abs, squeeze that belly button in to your spine and roll those hips in and out. You'll touch, roll them in, make sure you breathe in normally and down. nice tight abs, roll them in and down and there you go. That's proper execution of a reverse crunch."