How do you perform Standing Crunch?
- Stand up straight with your feet shoulder width apart.
- Hold a weight with both hands and arms straight above your head.
- Keep your body slightly twisted and leaning to one side.
- Your body weight is more on one foot than the other.
- Lower the weight as you raise the opposite knee.
- Try to tap the opposite knee with the weight.
- Keep your abs tight and your back straight.
- Come back up with the weight overhead.
- Exhale as you bend forward and inhale as you rise.
- Repeat for the desired number.
Common faults
- Poor back alignment.
- No good coordination between the movements of the arms and legs.
- The weight is not high enough above the head.
- Breathing not controlled.
- Not good muscle tone in the abdomen.