5-Minute Core Workout: Strong Abs and Back

Bicycle Crunch

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Targets: Upper Abdominals, Obliques, Hip Flexors

  • Sit with knees bent 90 degrees.
  • Hold a medicine ball at chest level and lean upper body back to engage abs.
  • Bring right knee toward left elbow, extending left leg (start).
  • Return to start.
  • Do 15 reps on each side.

 

Originally published in FITNESS magazine, June 2006.

 

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