Toe Touch Crunches
Online Personal Trainer - An effective semi-common exercise that is simple enough that you probably won't need a personal trainer to explain this one to you.
Lie on the floor on your back, lift your legs straight up in the air,and lift your arms up and point them towards your feet. Once you are set, crunch up and attempt to touch your toes with your hands. When you try to crunch up toward the toes, you will find that your abs seem to hit a wall that they cannot seem to push through. Each rep, strain to push through the wall by contracting your abs harder and trying to crunch higher. Make sure that you do not use momentum to do this, however. Keep your motion under the control of your abs at all times.
Keep your feet together throughout the exercise, never lie down completely between reps, and never let your abs relax at all. However, make sure that you do lower yourself as low as is possible without losing your ab contraction. Move smoothly from one rep to the next, keeping a constant tight contraction in your abs.
As always, we do not recommend performing any exercise without the supervision of a highly qualified Dallas personal trainer. This exercise description is for informational purposes only. Consult your doctor before attempting any workout program or attempting this exercise or any other exercise on this website.
Lie on the floor on your back, lift your legs straight up in the air,and lift your arms up and point them towards your feet. Once you are set, crunch up and attempt to touch your toes with your hands. When you try to crunch up toward the toes, you will find that your abs seem to hit a wall that they cannot seem to push through. Each rep, strain to push through the wall by contracting your abs harder and trying to crunch higher. Make sure that you do not use momentum to do this, however. Keep your motion under the control of your abs at all times.
Keep your feet together throughout the exercise, never lie down completely between reps, and never let your abs relax at all. However, make sure that you do lower yourself as low as is possible without losing your ab contraction. Move smoothly from one rep to the next, keeping a constant tight contraction in your abs.
As always, we do not recommend performing any exercise without the supervision of a highly qualified Dallas personal trainer. This exercise description is for informational purposes only. Consult your doctor before attempting any workout program or attempting this exercise or any other exercise on this website.