Bicycle crunches are an exercise to build abdominal muscles at the body weight. This exercise mainly solicits the obliques, the rectus abdominis but also the hip flexors (psoas iliacus).
How to perform this exercise for the obliques?
Lie down on the ground, hands behind the ears, it is a question of bringing back your elbow towards your opposite knee then of the same of the other side while alternating with each repetition. The opposite leg is almost stretched without however touching the ground.
Repeat the exercise according to the number of repetitions you need to do until the end of your set.
ATTENTON: Carry out the movement in a slow and controlled way so as not to injure your spine by an exaggerated torsion of the bust.
Tips
- Blow out while bringing the knee towards the elbow.
Variants
- Bust rotation with Swiss ball
Find this exercise in the following program:
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