Cable Russian Twists

What it is

This rotational core exercise effectively strengthens your abdominal muscles, particularly your obliques. You perform it lying on a stability ball, pulling a cable handle across your body. It helps improve core stability and rotational power.

Technique tips

• Keep your hips elevated and abdominal muscles engaged.
• Align your extended arms directly with the cable pulley.
• Rotate your torso fully, aiming for a quarter turn away from the cable.
• Maintain constant tension on the cable throughout the full range of motion.
• Execute each repetition with a slow and controlled tempo.

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.