Circular Crunch Exercises

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm going to demonstrate how to do a circular crunch. Bring yourself all the way down so that your back is flat on the floor. You want your knees to be close together. The reason that we keep our knees close together is it enables you to get a bigger circle and a little bit more range of motion. If your feet are out you're going to be all over the place with your hips. Fingertips spread nice and wide, glue the knees and ankles together. You're stirring the abs in one direction. So just think about coming up from one hip to the other and all the way back down. Draw a circle. Lift up with the chest. Elbows should be wide and in peripheral vision. Once you do as many as you can on one side you're going to switch directions and come around to the other side. Lift it up as high as you comfortably can. Exhale and inhale. You can go from one side to the other, or a little bit more effective would be to stay on the same side and do up to twenty five reps and then switch sides. So that's how we do our circular crunch. Just think about from one hip to the other. A big circle drawing it all the way around, lift the shoulder blades up off the floor and engage all the way across those obliques as you're rolling back and forth, and that's how we do our circular crunch laying on the floor."