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Medicine Ball Crunch

Lie on your back with knees bent and feet flat on the floor, holding a medicine ball against your chest or extended overhead. Engage your core and curl your torso up, keeping the ball close to your body. Lower with control, maintaining tension on the abs throughout the set.

ABS · CORE

How it is executed

  1. Lie on your back with knees bent and feet flat on the floor, holding a medicine ball against your chest or extended overhead.
  2. Engage your core and curl your torso up, keeping the ball close to your body.
  3. Lower with control, maintaining tension on the abs throughout the set.
Muscles worked
Abs
Primary muscle
Upper abs
Equipment
Other
Movement pattern
Core
Difficulty
Advanced
What it is for
Core strengthStabilityHypertrophyStrength

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