Standing Rope Crunch

What it is

This movement targets your abdominal muscles by flexing your spine against cable resistance. You will perform a standing crunch to isolate your core effectively. It is an excellent way to build core strength and definition.

Technique tips

• Keep your hips stable, focusing movement solely in your trunk.
• Exhale as you crunch down, contracting your abdominal muscles.
• Control the weight's return, resisting the pull upward.
• Avoid pulling with your arms; let your core initiate the crunch.
• Achieve full spinal flexion at the bottom of each repetition.

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.