How to Do Oblique Crunches

Video Transcript

"H, my name is Sue Conrad and I'm going to show you how to do an Oblique Crunch. First you want to take your right foot, put it on the left knee. You're going to your left arm, put it gently behind your head, just the the light touch with the fingertips. You're going to go across the body, reaching pass the knee, with, leading with the elbow, holding for a brief second and relaxing back down. So on this exercise, you're focusing on one side at a time, turn it in the obliques, right here on this opposite side. And you're other arm can be palm down on the mat, or you can put it on the center of your belly as you reach, whatever is most comfortable. So we're going to start off with one set of twelve to fifteen on the one side. Now we're going to switch sides, switch hands, you want to really reach pass that left knee, really close in the obliques to contract, pausing for a brief second, then relaxing down. This really should feel a rotation in your torso, you want to keep those neck muscles relaxed, nice space between the chin and the chest and bringing it back down. So what we'll do, what would you like to do is do a set of fifteen on each side and do that three times. And this is how you do an Oblique Crunch."