How To Do Circular Crunches Video

Circular crunches will work the entire abdominal muscle group and shape and tone the stomach. Learn how to do circular crunches from a certified personal fitness trainer in this exercise video.

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Lay on back
Knees close together
Hands behind head
Switch directions

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Amy McCauley has been a certified personal fitness trainer since 1995. She specializes in pilates, combat cardio, core conditioning and overall strength training. She works with clients ranging in age from 16 - 69. She has worked at Gold's Gym in Wilmington, NC since 2006. She loves her job because it gives her the opportunity to change peoples' lives in a positive way.

Hi. I'm going to demonstrate how to do a circular crunch. Bring yourself all the way down so that your back is flat on the floor. You want your knees to be close together. The reason why we keep our knees close together is it enables you to get a bigger circle and a little bit more range of motion. If your feet are out, you're going to be all over the place with your hips. Fingertips spread nice and wide. Glue the knees and ankles together. You're straining the abs in one direction. So just think about coming up from one hip to the other and all the way back down. Draw a circle, lift up with the chest. Elbow should be wide in peripheral vision. I want you do as many as you can on one side, and you're going to switch directions and then come around to the other side. Lift it up a high as you comfortably can. Exhale and inhale. You can go from one side to the other, or a little bit more effective would be to stay on the same side and do up to 25 reps and then switch sides. So that's how we do our circular crunch. Just think about from one hip to the other, a big circle drawing it all the way around, lift the shoulder blades up off the floor, and engage all the way across those obliques as you're rolling back and forth. And that's how we do our circular crunch laying on the floor.

How to Do Circular Crunches Video

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