Suspended Reverse Crunch

How to do it

1. Set a suspension trainer so the foot cradles hang at about knee height.
2. Take a push-up position with both feet in the cradles.
3. Set your hands under your shoulders and your body in one line.
4. Brace your stomach hard.
5. Draw your knees toward your chest, letting the hips curl upward at the end.
6. Extend the legs back out under control until the body is in one line again.

Common mistakes

• Letting the hips sag on the way out. The body holds one line at full extension, and the hips dropping is the trunk giving up at the hardest point.
• Pulling the knees in without the hips rising. Knees to chest with the hips flat is hip flexion; the pelvis curling upward is the abdominal half.
• Letting the straps swing. They move where a floor does not, and controlling that is part of the exercise.
• Letting the shoulders drift behind the hands. Stacked shoulders are what make the position holdable for a set.

Muscles worked

Primary

• Abs