Heel Touch Crunch

Start

Finish

How to do it

Lie with knees bent and feet flat, lift the shoulder blades slightly off the floor, then bend sideways at the waist to tap one heel with the fingertips and alternate side to side.

Muscles worked

Primary: obliques · Also works: core

Equipment

No equipment

Common mistakes

• Sliding the hand down the floor with the shoulders flat instead of holding the shoulder blades up the whole set
• Reaching with the arm only rather than bending through the waist
• Setting the feet too far from the hips so the heels are out of reach and the low back arches

Variations

• Hold a light dumbbell in each hand
• Pause one second at each heel
• Elevate the feet on a low step

Can't do this one? Swap it for

• Bicycle Crunch
• Side Plank Hip Dip
• Russian Twist
• Standing Oblique Crunch

Related exercises

• Pallof Pressobliques
• Side Plankobliques
• Kneeling Side Plankobliques
• Side Plank Hip Dipobliques
• Side Plank Reach Throughobliques
• Side Plank Leg Raiseobliques