Crunches with Lateral Flexion

This exercise keeps your entire abdominal wall under constant tension while giving your obliques a pretty good ab workout. The key to this exercise is to keep the movement completely lateral.

1. Lie flat on the exercise mat with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor.
   
   
2. With your hands held lightly behind your head, lift yourself into a crunch position.
   
   
3. Holding your torso a couple of inches off the floor, bring your left armpit downward toward your left hip.
   
   
4. Once you have gone far as you can, hold the position and squeeze your right oblique before slowly returning to the starting position and executing the same movement toward your right side.
   
   
5. Repeat for the number of desired repetitions.
   
   

• Nautilus Crunches
• Lateral Bridge