Beginner exercise

Crunch - Hands Overhead

  • Muscle Growth
  • Bodybuilding

Technique

How to perform Crunch - Hands Overhead

  1. Lie on your back with knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
  2. Extend your arms overhead alongside your head and keep them there.
  3. Curl your shoulders and shoulder blades a short distance off the floor while keeping your lower back supported.
  4. Lower your shoulders slowly without sweeping your arms forward to assist.
  5. Repeat with the same small controlled trunk curl.

Programming relevance

Muscles involved

Primary targets: Rectus Abdominis.

MuscleScoreRole
Rectus Abdominis1.0Target, Mover

Calisthenics graph

Progression relationships

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