Side Oblique Leg Crunch
What is a Side Oblique Leg Crunch?
A Side Oblique Leg Crunch is an abdominal exercise that focuses primarily on the oblique muscles while also working your legs. This is an intermediate to advanced move that will engage the entire core with each crunch. You can practice this exercise anywhere you can bring your mat!
How do you do a Side Oblique Leg Crunch?
Step 1
Start by lying down on the left side of your body. Bend your knees slightly, around a 45-degree angle, and place your right hand behind your head.
Step 2
Contract your oblique muscles — this crunching movement should drive your elbow toward your knees and lift your head, neck and shoulders as you lift your legs and feet off the mat. Lower back to starting position and repeat.
How do you modify a Side Oblique Leg Crunch?
Side Oblique Leg Crunch for Weak Lower Back
What are the benefits of a Side Oblique Leg Crunch?
Core Strength
Leg Strength
Full-body Strength
Expert opinion
To isolate the obliques in a side oblique crunch, I tell clients to imagine there is an egg resting on the top side of their rib cage.
Then I cue them to try to wrap their chest over that egg, and to crush that egg with their ribs and chest, reminding them that there is no way they could crush it with their neck or head, given where it is.