Ab Roller

What it is

This exercise challenges your core strength using an Ab Roller. It effectively works your abdominal muscles, with secondary engagement in your shoulders. You'll perform a controlled rolling motion to extend and retract your body from a kneeling position.

Technique tips

• Start on your knees with the roller directly under your shoulders.
• Roll out slowly, extending your body into a straight line.
• Inhale as you stretch forward, keeping your core engaged.
• Exhale as you pull the roller back, using your abdominal muscles.
• Prevent your hips from sagging or arching your lower back.
• Only roll as far as you can return with control.

How to track your progress

Log the weight and reps of each set. Straddly turns every set into an estimated one-rep max, so a heavier single and a strong set of eight both count as progress, and it flags a personal record the moment you beat your best.