Video: Hip-Hop Dance Warm-Ups: Crunches

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Crunches help to warm up abs. Learn more about doing crunches in hip-hop dancing with tips from a professional choreographer in this free dance video.

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Hi, I'm Keith Fitzpatrick with hip hop warm up moves and this is going to be our stomach crunches. So with this crunch, that I usually do in my warm up, it's always a nice, it's a nice way to focus here on our abs, which is something you have to have a really strong core in hip hop and pretty much every genre of dance, your core needs to be really strong. So what we're going to do, is we'll start on our backs and we're going to come up, up. As we reach the top of that crunch, we're going to come up with our arms. We're going to lay back down and our arms will go all the way back behind. You're going to make sure to keep your feet planted as firmly as possible. So we're back, our arms are coming forward and then we're going to lift ourselves up with just our core. We'll come up, boom. We'll go back down here and our arms go back down. You want to make sure that as you come up, you're exhaling. You go back down, you inhale. So as we do that to tempo, usually it's a lot more quicker, done a lot more quickly than that, you'll come up here, back down. Make sure that you exhale on your way up and inhale on your way down. It's just a nice way to keep your abs nice and in shape and keep your core strong for all the other movement that you'll be doing in your hip hop. And there's your stomach crunch.

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Hip-Hop Dance Warm-Ups: Crunches

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