The basic crunch to tone your abs and slim your waistline
This exercise is commonly done wrong, causing neck pain. This can happen when we lose focus on the stomach and use the neck to perform the lift. Relax your shoulders, focus your eyes on the ceiling and concentrate on your stomach muscles while performing this exercise. Muscles Involved:Abdominals   Description: Lay on the floor with your knees bent. Your feet should be on the floor and your hands behind your head. Keep the elbows out wide.Tilt your chin up focusing on a point high on the wall or ceiling. Keep the neck and shoulders relaxed. Exhaling, contract your stomach muscles lifting the head and shoulders off the floor. Slowly return to the floor keeping the stomach tight and repeat. This is a good beginner's exercise to start strengthening the most external muscles of the abdominals. This exercise has endless variations so if your find this one isn't challenging enough for you try this with your legs up, laying on a stability ball, or with a foam roll under you. Work your way down the body! Best Leg Exercises Return to the home page from the crunch pageLearn how to burn fat and build muscle
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