Suspended Reverse Crunch

What it is

This movement isolates your core by lifting your lower body while your feet are secured in suspension straps. It primarily targets and strengthens your abdominal muscles. You engage your entire midsection as you draw your knees towards your chest with controlled precision.

Technique tips

• Maintain a straight plank from head to heels before starting the movement.
• Initiate the pull by actively engaging your lower abdominals and tilting your pelvis.
• Draw your knees smoothly towards your chest, keeping the movement controlled.
• Avoid using momentum; control both the crunch and the return phases.
• Exhale as you crunch your knees in, inhale as you extend your legs back.
• Do not let your hips sag below your shoulder line at any point.

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.