bicycle crunch

Pedaling while supine

A bicycle crunch is an abdominal exercise performed lying on your back with hands behind your head, alternating bringing each elbow toward the opposite knee while extending the other leg, mimicking a pedaling motion.

The twisting movement targets both the rectus abdominis and the obliques more effectively than a standard crunch.

I do fifty bicycle crunches at the end of every workout.

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